I attended the Focus on Imaging exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham on Monday. It was a pretty excellent show, lots to do and lots to see! This is my favourite shot from the day, taken with the Canon 200mm F2 L IS USM. The subject to background separation of this lens is pretty incredible. [...]

Slightly different format to todays post. I was feeling bad as I haven’t posted in a few days, I thought you deserved more than one image! I tried a random technique that I’m pretty sure I didn’t invent to create these photos.. Using a computer monitor as a background! Pretty simple but I find it [...]

I think that it may be a little late for Christmas themed images, however the red gift bag sat next to these wine bottles really caught my eye so I thought I’d share it.

I used the 5DII’s Live View feature to capture this shot. I find that Live View is really great for capturing subjects that are positioned in such a way that you can’t easily bring the viewfinder to your eye to see the shot. I initially considered cropping the top and bottom of this shot, as [...]

I was once told that a great way to learn to find interesting subjects anywhere is to lock yourself in the bathroom (or any other room) for an hour and just search for photographic opportunities. Once the hour is up, leave the room, grab your camera and take 3 pictures. What we have here is [...]

I was just wandering around the house, looking for a subject to capture when I noticed the streak of light shining on this packaging. I’m beginning to enjoy photographing pretty much any subject as long as there is a great quality of light. I took the colours out of this image as I felt that [...]

Another shot from inside on a dark evening this shot was taken as ISO 5000, you can see the noise/grain but I’ve found that with the 5DII as long as the quality of light is good the amount isn’t so important.

Well this is the first shot I took with the 5D MKII and it’s the first post to our new Photoblog! I finally bit the bullet and purchased one of these fantastic cameras. I love the full frame sensor, it seems to turn everything I take into a still from a hollywood movie. Here we [...]