Lake District – Day 3
Starting in Ambleside, Day 3 was very grey with none of the local peaks such as Red Screes or Fairfield visible as they were covered in cloud and mist. Down in the town it was damp and misty. The first port of
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Lake District – Day 2
The second day’s weather was never going to be as good as the first’s had been. As expected, it was a grey day, with low cloud and mist. The target for the day was a more leisurely visit to Keswick, to include
Photographing the Stars 3
In this post, I am carrying on from the previous post and cover the final steps needed to take your first constellation photos. The exposure table in the last post gives you a guide of what to do to avoid star trails.
Lake District: Day 1, Part 2
Part of the plan for Day 1 was to try using the 5×4 camera for the first time, now that the plate to hold the digital camera had arrived. My view is that managing a 5×4 camera is essentially a two-man job,
Lake District – Day 1
A few days in the Lakes: Day 1 – Langdale Valley Last week I managed to have a few days away with my old social bubble neighbour who moved away a few months ago. We were both in need of some time
Photographing the stars 2
In this second post on astrophotography, I’m going to look at what we can photograph and how to get started on photographing constellations and star trails. Taking Photographs We’ve talked a little so far about choice of focal lengths for camera lenses
Large Format Adventures
I realised that the original post ‘Large Format Adventures 3’ didn’t make sense as where were posts 1 and 2? The answer is that they were originally posted on another of my blogs. I’ve consolidated them into one new post. Large Format
Photographing the stars 1
An introduction to astrophotography Introduction This is the first detailed blog posts / article discussing astrophotography and how to get involved. Over time, I will add more posts. Note: I am not discussing solar photography here – that requires very specialist equipment.
Medium Format Adventures 2
I had an abortive attempt at talking to camera repairers. I know of one company in Liverpool and after a chat with them, I rang later to speak with their technician. It was like something out of a comic parody of dealing
Medium Format Adventures 1
As I mentioned recently, I have acquired a Mamiya RB67 medium format camera. For those unaware of what that means, it uses 120 roll film, and the negatives are 6cm x 7cm. This is about 5x the size of a 35mm film