Cameraworld Free Advice Day

I'm going to be at Cameraworld in Chelmsford again for another Free Advice Day on Saturday 1st December, from 9.30am to 5.30pm.  It's a drop-in day, when you can just come along and ask me anything, whether you're stumped regarding a particular subject or technique, or need some advice about equipment, or just want to re-cap something that we covered on a workshop.  No need to book, just turn up!

Click the image below to take you to more details about the day

Photo Friday - Week 42

I've finally completed fiddling around with my new tuition leaflet design, adding new comments from customers, and deciding on the new photos for it, and it's now gone off for printing at www.inkylittlefingers.co.uk, so should be with me in a week or so.

So here's the leaflet design, very much based on the same design I've been using for the last 4 years, and the one that prompted my website redesign last year.  I'll post larger versions of the images I used soon, and my reasons for picking these shots.

Obviously I should thank the customers that have given me feedback following workshops, and have allowed me to use that feedback for the testimonials on the leaflet and elsewhere, as I'm sure it makes a difference to potential customers to see these sorts of comments.

Photo Friday - Week 41

I was doing some private tuition at Thorndon Park on Monday, and the woodland there is looking fantastic at the moment.  With this shot I was trying to show the rich colours of the beech trees, both their green, algaed trunks, and the vibrant orange of the fallen leaves.


Pentax K-5, Pentax DA 16-45mm f/4 lens @ 19mm, f/9.5, 3s, ISO80, polariser, tripod.

2013 Workshops

Just a quick one to let you know I've updated the Workshops pages to show details of the 2013 workshops until the end of May, so we have six 'Know The Basics', three 'Beyond The Basics' and two 'Close-up and Macro Nature Photography' workshops.

There's also a 'Garden and Flower Photography' workshop to be listed, it's on the 26th May 2013 and will be spent partly at Hanningfield Reservoir (in the morning), and partly at RHS Hyde Hall (in the afternoon). More details to follow...

Photo Friday - Week 40

I'm currently in the (slow) process of redesigning my tuition leaflet, and I need to get a shift on as I'm down to the last hundred or so of my current one, so I've just been looking through some more images that might be used for it, and I thought I'd post one of them.


Pentax K-5, Sigma EX 105mm f/2.8 macro lens @ f/6.7, 1/180s, ISO1600, handheld.

This was taken at Bedfords Park whilst running a private workshop for Lloyds Register Camera Club, and it's an immature Speckled Bush Cricket.  It demonstrates the great higher ISO performance of the K-5's sensor, I certainly couldn't have got anything looking this noise-free from my K10D at ISO1600.

Don't know yet if I'll use it for the leaflet, but it has potential...