Harry Flashman

Have you ever stopped to ponder on just what a photo is - or better, just what it represents.  In actual fact, a standard...

We have been discussing modern cameras recently, all bristling with settings, modes, applications and operating systems.  However, despite all the electronic trickery, there are...

In recent columns I have been comparing smartphone cameras between themselves, and also against point and shooter compacts.  This week I thought I should...

A few years ago, I never thought I would be writing about the various merits (or otherwise) of the images produced by mobile phones....

Everyone who embarks on the study of photography meets a definition of photography as “painting with light”.  Whilst you certainly need light to be...

A friend of mine is doing a photography course by correspondence, and the latest test is portraits.  A very important subject, since portraits of...

Photographers develop their skills.  The photographic eye is not something you are born with.  However, that skill can be learned, and there is no...

If you want to put some interest in your photos, you have a few items to consider.  As well as complying with all the...

There is more to photography than just ‘record’ shots.  These shots are those you take of your wife at the beach with her...

I received a communication from a newbie photographic friend the other day.  It went, “Have you used a Tamron lens?  I’m thinking of...