During a family visit in March 2008, we did a bit of travelling, visiting Kyoto and Hiroshima. Today we're going to look at a number of images I shot during the few days in Kyoto. I’m sure most of you have experienced trying to photograph while out with friends, so...
Month: April 2008
India Apr 2008 – Madivala Market Part#2 (Podcast 134)
In the last episode, we started to look at some photos that I shot during another brief visit to the Madivala market in Bangalore, India last week, which for the sake of those listening to the archives in months or years to come was April, 2008. I’d also visited in...
India Apr 2008 – Madivala Market Part#1 (Podcast 133)
Last week I was in India for a brief business trip with my day job, and had a wonderful experience in the market that I’d visited in September of 2007, when I shot some great portrait shots that I shared with you in Episodes 105 and 106. This is the first of a two...
Depth-of-Field Explained (Podcast 132)
I’ve rarely seen an easy to understand explanation of how the aperture and distance to the subject affect the depth-of-field in our images. When I started to think about how I would explain this, I started to understand why, because it wasn’t easy to do this in a...
Observations from PIE 2008 (Podcast 131)
Although my family were due to arrive the following day, on the morning of March the 20th, which was a holiday here in Japan, and I had the choice of completing the Podcast I had half prepared, or going to the Photo Imaging Expo 2008 at the Tokyo Big Sight, and then...
Assignment #14 – Abstract (Podcast 130)
After a few weeks’ hiatus it’s good to be back in front of the mic. We’ve had my brother and sister-in-law staying with us for the last two weeks, and really just been so busy having fund that I found it difficult to even find time to catch up in the forums for a...