Category Other

Other: Computer Science E-7 – Exposing Digital Photography

Recently, I’ve been watching the lectures for the “Computer Science E-7: Exposing Digital Photography” course offered by the Harvard Extension School. Through the school, Harvard offer many courses to the general public and put the learning material online (many of the courses can be done via distance learning too). The lectures from the course are […]

The Scott Kelby World Photowalk, Manchester 2012

On Saturday 13th October, I took part in the Scott Kelby World Photowalk, with nearly fifty other photographers in Manchester city centre. We were joined by 31,761 other people in more than 1,300 cities around the world. Our walk leader, David Johnson, split us into smaller groups to brave the city centre on a Saturday and […]

Working in Black & White

While recommended as a possibility for this part of the course, I wasn’t going to give using black and white images much thought, until I produced the images for the first exercise and decided that monochrome worked much better than the shocking purple/pink of the original. Then, I noticed how the point stood out much […]

Monitor Calibration, Revisited

Going back to the course introduction briefly, I decided to have another go at calibrating my monitor. I dug out the instructions I used previously and as I reread them, I found this excellent guide (if you’re using a Linux-based operating system that is). Following the details on the web page I: Changed the brightness […]