dreamypixUK's BLOG

Well dunno how to go about this to be honest, I admit it, i'm a blogging virgin!!! So please be gentle with me.
I've been a photographer of one sort or another since the 1980s, my work has been published in various publications, ranging from trade journals to Glossy Mens Mags.
My work appears on several sites on the web including Picturebank UK, Alamy, Photographers direct, not to mention my own, which you can find at http://www.dreamypix.co.uk

I started out at a time when digital was by and large, unheard of and learned my craft on cameras that ranged from 35mm, through 6x7cm and all the way upto 4x5", all of them taking "real" film (mostly transparancy or slides to me and you) all exposures were hand metered (most of the work I do now, I still double check whenever I feel the lighting may be tricky.

I love taking photographs, getting things to look that little bit special, the art of waiting for everthing to gel before pressing the shutter and reviewing the end results......

Hi, as promised, here's more about how little or much things have changed in the game, from your friendly Swindon tog!

If we start with the fact that it was always expected that the minimum requirement was to be able to correctly use whatever camera you had. In the past this meant that you had to be able to correctly judge exposure and be able to tweak it to suit what picture editors at the time were after, ie well saturated (around 1/3 of a stop under) well composed and accurately focussed shots.
Please remember that most of my work was on transparacies of anywhere between 35mm- 5x4".
The only way you could allow for errors in exposure was to have a clip test taken of your film and that would only work if your error was consistant throughout the shoot.
Now shooting digitally, exposure isn't so much of an issue as you get to see the frames directly (albeit in miniture) after you take them, so you can keep on reshooting until you are satisfied. Even if you are a bit sloppy, in most......