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Mastering Exposure
By David Taylor educational equipment technique video

Mastering Exposure: The 10-stop ND filter

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Kielder reservoir at sunset from Hawkhirst Scout Camp, Northumberland
By David Taylor equipment reviews

NiSi Filter System / Review

Shoot digitally and you’d be forgiven for thinking that there’s no need to use filtration. I mean you can fix…

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May - Lights!
By David Taylor equipment general chat technique

No Photoshop required…

Telephoto lens + wet window + out-of-focus streetlights = colourful abstract photo. Who needs Adobe Photoshop when you can do…

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Digital Camera
By David Taylor equipment general chat

Instamatic for the People

Once there were only two certainties in life: death and taxes. Now it seems that there’s a third – there’ll…

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Camera bag
By David Taylor equipment general chat

It’s really not my bag…

One sure way to get immediate respect from your photographic peers is to have a camera bag that, quite frankly,…

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ND Filter
By David Taylor equipment technique

Neutral Density Filters

To create an image you need a certain amount of light. If I were to tell that I regularly use…

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Prime Lenses
By David Taylor equipment technique

The Joy of Primes

The easiest option when buying a new lens for a system camera is to pick a zoom (and in fact…

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Looking at a Pyramid
By David Taylor equipment technique

Looking at a Pyramid

And now for something completely different, a man carrying a camera made out of plastic. I’ve used quite a few…

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Sunset over the Cheviots Hills in north Northumberland
By David Taylor equipment in northumberland technique

Deficient to the tune of one

I was up in the Cheviot Hills the other day, climbing a particularly craggy and overgrown slope, when I realised…

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Sunset over West Allendale moors, Allendale, Northumberland
By David Taylor equipment technique

Thingimys and wotsits

On another post I wax lyrical about plastic cameras and the puzzlingly important place they have in my equipment checklist….

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