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Why FishNet?
The name was chosen by a helpful sub-editor because it seemed to him that it cleverly combined the subject matter, with our seaside location. ;-)
For convenience sake, I have transferred my photo blog and a few other bits and pieces to this location as well. There are some older posts whose illustrations were lost in a move from Blogger to WordPress, and some broken links here and there, which shouldn't affect the overall usability of the Blog much, if at all.
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Category Archives: Portrait
A favourite
A favourite from my recent Doofus shoot. Mieke again.
Posted in Black and White, General, PB, Portrait
Tagged CLS, Nikon, Nikon CLS, Portrait, Strobist
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Took a while
It took a while to get round to processing the pictures from a shoot during which I wasn’t thinking all that clearly. (See Doofus) I did have a very high discard rate but there were a few decent pictures as … Continue reading
Posted in Black and White, General, PB, Photography, Portrait
Tagged CLS, Nikon, Nikon CLS, Strobist
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Fifi and the fast lens
The quality of the kit lenses we get with our cameras these days is generally pretty good and so are most of the less expensive consumer zoom lenses available from the various manufacturers. These can all be used to used … Continue reading
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Hitting a luck
The photographic gods sometimes smile on your photographic efforts and everything goes right when you trip the shutter button. I was at the Battle of the Bands at Kearsney College on Friday night, and doing my thing photographing musicians. I … Continue reading
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Technically imperfect
I’ve been thinking about imperfection just lately. We learn photography and are indoctrinated with the belief that pictures that are not perfectly composed and exposed are no good. That was me for for a long time but I’ve lately come … Continue reading