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...has been said many times before, the best part of travelling is coming home! That’s until the next trip of course… And what about the midges you may ask? Well, there weren’t any in sight, maybe they just decided it wasn’t quite summer yet! Please follow my future trips by visiting my website at www.johnmiskelly.co.uk and ‘like’ my Facebook page....
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...that trend. Quality comes at a price in terms of the amount of equipment needed to cover the bases. Although the old contention that it is not about equipment is true I suggest that most readers of this site have a threshold of quality for their serious work (target 30x20in print) which rules out the camera phone/miniature compact (e.g. LX5,...
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...mouth was, I had finally committed to making good images, rather than just clicking away and hoping that the camera could come up with something decent. I was hooked from that moment on, and it was only three years from then that I packed in my job in finance and started working full time as a photographer. The second big...
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...perfect light. Next it's good to have a comfortable way of carrying all your equipment (especially the tripod!), you are more likely to explore further and be more relaxed when you get there if you have a good comfortable bag or rucksack that also keeps your equipment dry. Finally good preparation should become part of your routine, if you are...
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...feel the need to find out how many pixels the screen has! Maybe the women that are into landscape are happy purely doing it for themselves, and combined with a generalised lack of interest in computers, how would we ever know about them? It has occurred to me trying to think of an answer to this question how sometimes a...
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...commercial or personal work, the day usually starts the night before with furious weather and sunrise-time checking, this could all amount to nothing when you open the curtains the next day to see ‘not as advertised’ rain lashing the window. This happened on my first major commission last September (2011) working in Norway for a global oil company putting together...
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...would completely ruin it, but now I’ve come to really like having mine and dogs’ footprints in there. I find it adds extra focal points. I think your eye goes straight to the footprint – well, mine do. It makes you look at it first and then leads you into the rest of the picture. I’ve come up with a...
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...myself then. That seems to be an important piece of the puzzle to me: being yourself and being comfortable with yourself and your surroundings. That appears to be the main requirement for feeling at home to me, wherever you are. Certain environments also help to invoke that feeling for me. It usually doesn’t take long for me to be comfortable...
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