waterwheel toy shot with fast and slow shutter speed

Photography Basics: Shutter Speed

This article looks at how to:

  • either avoid, or purposefully include, blur due to camera shake or movement of the subject, camera or lens
  • freeze motion.

Review of Design Cuts’ Inspiring Artistic Design Collection

Design Cuts is an online market place for downloadable design resources. They gave me the opportunity of receiving a free copy of their current deal, The Inspiring Artistic Design Collection, in exchange for a review of this bundle.

A Note About WordPress Backups

What’s most likely to scare people away from using WordPress is the fear that they will lose their website if it is hacked, they make a mistake or something breaks. This is why it’s important to have a contingency plan.

Photography Basics: Aperture

Whenever a photograph is taken, a decision has to be made about how much light is needed to achieve an acceptable exposure.

Online Resources for Choosing a Colour Scheme

I love colour and can spend ages playing with different colour combinations, but I find that it can be very difficult to narrow down all the different options and come up with a colour scheme that is more than just a unco-ordinated mix of beautiful colours.

MJD Homes website using Squarespace

Website for MJD Homes

John Holman, of MJD Homes, asked me to set up a simple website to display photographs of the houses built by him and his business partners…