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
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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
An unexpected day in the mountains
Managed to have an ‘accidental day out’ recently. A friend is house hunting at the moment and was going to view one up on the North Wales coast near Colwyn Bay. She asked if I wanted to make a day out from