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Pinhole Camera in Your Pocket

Most serious or semi-serious photographers have wanted to use a pinhole camera, but thought that it would be too complicated to make one themselves, or… Read More »Pinhole Camera in Your Pocket

How Your Lens Was Made… A Video

Here’s a great video from YouTube about how TV lenses are made. The same basic principles apply to Digital and Film SLR cameras, so this is a really interesting watch; from Discovery Channel, no less…

Why Filters are Fun

Using filters have always been a fun part of my photography. They allow you to take a photograph of a normal scene, and make it look extraordinary. There are various kinds of filters; coloured filters and special effects filters.

Digital photography allows you to apply much of what these photographic filters can do even after the image is captured, but sometimes using filters while taking your photographs makes a massive difference, especially when you use filters that dramatically change how the image is captured – like an ND filter or starburst filter. That’s when they become fun to use.