Chez Spud

Such a boring topic, such a boring task…such a LIFE SAVER when your ‘puter collapses one day taking with it all your photos…gone forever in the blink of the blue screen of death. Unless you’ve cleverly been systematically backing up your hard drive in which case, TA DA, with the flick of a switch, your [...]

I’m just two photos away from completing my first Photo-A-Day 365 project WHOOPEEE and, despite vowing not to do it again, it seems I’m hooked on the damn thing. So, Photo-A-Day 2010 here I come! Julochka has started a new Flickr group for us bleeps here so if you’d like to play along and join [...]

Haven’t done one of these for a while, and I thought it was time. In the last Camera Club meeting I mentioned shooting in RAW in passing and then thought it might be worth more than a casual nod in its general direction. I suspect this is one of ‘those’ topics where everyone is going [...]

Way back in the mists of time, someone asked me to do a Camera Club post on cropping and what better way to pass the time whilst laid up in bed with a flu ‘thing’ than a wee Camera Club meeting?  Do we have cake?  I’ve heard rumours of baking lessons at Blog Camp 3.0. [...]

Sorry, this one is for the Big Camera people only…point & shooters feel free to gnash teeth in my general direction at this point. Here’s a fun technique to try: out of focus. This comes very naturally to me since I have about a million not ‘quite’ in focus shots knocking around. But actually I’m [...]

Introducing Eliza Claire aka Liz…wedding, portrait, boudoir and trash the dress photographer extraordinaire. That’s her in the photo above, suffering for her art. That little hand in the top right is her daughter’s; she was sitting on mummy’s back using her camera strap as reins and doing ‘gee up horsey’…waaaah! I asked Liz to write [...]

Uh oh…I’ve discovered yet another way to waste hours of my life. I have such a talent for unearthing time robbers;  if only such a skill had a commercial use. Instead all I can do is shrug my shoulders, embrace the robber and then pass it on to you guys…although you will be spared if [...]

Apologies, this question has been lurking for a while. Amanda asked a while back about how we can protect our images online, to prevent others using them. In short, there is no truly effective way of preventing someone who is very skilled and determined helping themselves to your images. So the basic rule is ‘if [...]

Quiet please at the back…I declare this meeting of the CCC open for business. Be a love and stick the kettle on and pass the biscuits around would you? I’ve got a couple of questions lurking from previous meetings but I’m going to tackle just one today, and then throw in some random quick tips [...]

Random photo choice for this post, I just like it…Diggy with Bertie’s new chainsaw, he LOVES it. It’s surprisingly authentic in terms of the noise and motion of it. Which make it all the more alarming when he trots up to you and says, “I’m going to cut you small…[cuts nearest limb]….THERE Y’ARE!”. Right, next [...]