I have just put together a web site for a medical practice, using all my own photos (almost). The clients wanted a slider (or ‘carousel’) on the home page with scenes from the business. Traditionally, sliders are long and skinny – in this case, 1280 pixels horizontally by 500 pixels vertically. That’s panorama proportions. Any…
Author: David Carroll
Landscapes Relearned
On the other day with Robert Billington we looked at ways of capturing the landscape. Again, Robert likes to use a slowish ISO to get a smooth finished texture. This is one of his: So, we went out – in the rain! – to look for “atmosphere”. We certainly found it overlooking Bowral as…
Annie Leibovitz at Work
I picked up this book at my local library recently – Annie Leibovitz at Work. As it says on the back: This is a very easy book to read – mostly “in her own words” – “text based on conversations with Sharon Delano”, a journalist. It gives a potted history of how she got into…
Portraits
A new blog! Here goes… A little while ago I spent some time with Robert Billington taking portraits of a young family. Robert is a lovely bloke and has been a professional photographer for ages, has published several books and has work in the National Gallery. His books include many portraits and scenes from around…