Show your true colours!

Show your true colours!

Have you ever looked at the same photo on different devices, like a computer monitor, TV screen or on a mobile device like a tablet or phone? You may have noticed that the colour of the photo can shift dramatically from blue to yellow to magenta to a sickly green. So how do we know what the true colour of an image really is, and how can we ensure our photo’s have the ‘correct’ colour?

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How large can I print my photos?

How large can I print my photos?

Many of us like to print our very best photographs to hang in our house, give away as a gift or venture into selling it as art. These are the print-worthy photographs, as I like to call them. When it comes to printing a photograph we all seem to quickly reach the question that many have asked time and time again; how large can I print my photo? 

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The truth about megapixels

The truth about megapixels

I am going to go out on a limb here and say that anyone that owns a digital camera is familiar with the term megapixels, perhaps that was even the reason you purchased the camera you currently have or why you upgrade your smart phone when new version comes out. But do you really know what megapixels are and what they do and do not do for your photography?

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Trapped by the tide

Trapped by the tide

It was a beautiful day with lots of sun and warm weather, these type of days needs to be savoured when you live in Ireland. So we had decided to get out and wander the shoreline between Blackrock and Dún Laoghaire with the goal of getting some seascapes imagery…

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Exploring natural light

Exploring natural light

Light, the single most important ingredient in photography, in-fact it is everything in photography. Therefore, understanding light becomes crucial in photography and better quality of light should translate to better the photos…

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Fix photos creatively

Fix photos creatively

How can you recover a bad or uninteresting photo? Can you even do that?
This is not going to be your regular fixing a bad photo, rather we will dive into a more creative process where we take a not so interesting photo and create something extraordinary.

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Sensor dust Pt.2

Sensor dust Pt.2

You know your camera is suffering from a dirty sensor and this affects your photos and your own sanity, you even have nightmares of dark spots chasing you in your sleep. So how can we get our sanity back and cure our camera from the dirty sensor syndrome?  

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Sensor dust Pt.1

Sensor dust Pt.1

You have polished and polished your precious lenses just yesterday and yet, you still can’t seem to get rid of those darn dark spots in your photos. Sometimes they seems to magically vanish only to return in the next couple of photos. Your camera is likely suffering from a bad case of sensor dust so let us investigate what we can do about it...

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