Author Archives: Matthew My dear friend Martin at one of his favourite places, the Burrell Collection in Glasgow’s Pollock Park. We arrived as it was becoming dark so lighting was a difficult mix of background tungsten lighting with orange cast and a slight natural twilight coming in the window behind me. This gave me difficult colour cast and…  I am going to mention two things at once in this post, so I apologise in advance for not doing full justice to either. Here is a picture of friends Gerry and Elisabeth on the summit of the little gem of a mountain in the Trossachs called Ben A’n. I found it while doing a…  This is one of my very favourite pictures. It doesn’t really cut it as a portrait, but the sheer starkness of Sally’s imposition against the Matterhorn is fantastic. Taking people-pictures in bright midday light always results in shadowy eyes. People wearing hats and sunglases makes the problem even worse. I this case Sally’s hat and… I use a Canon 40D. I am really pleased with it and if I never had another camera I could continue to make great images with it, but I am a photographer, and it’s not in our nature not to want a better camera, especially at a time like the present when every new generation… |
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