The developers of the app Photopills have made this e-book available for free download.
The Galactic Core Is Nigh!
It will hang around for a few months, so if you are thinking of getting into this avenue of photography / video, this is a good time to start.
It’s that time of year to look skywards…
And with Christmas coming (and Black Friday sales), what better time to hint hint to love ones ...?
Astrophotography: Shooting the Geminid Meteors Dec 13th-14th
If you are planning at having a crack at shooting the upcoming Geminid Meteor shower, this little video from the PhotoPills folk might help out!
Astrophotography: Part One – Getting Started
When I started back in 2002, I was under a big misconception. I thought to get started I needed to buy a decent telescope with an SLR film camera. How wrong can you be!
New Zealand South Island Astrophotography Trip
One of the things the PhotoPills community does regularly is take trips to various locations around the globe to scenic places in order to get that lifetime shot of the moon, galaxies, meteors, northern or southern lights and so on.
Tutorial: Photographing the annual Gemenids meteor shower
Because, depending on where you are, these next 4 days offer one of the best astronomical light shows there is via the annual Geminids meteor shower.
PhotoPills. I Think It’s A MUST Have App for Photography
Photography (and videography for that matter) has come a long, long way in the last few decades. I was incredibly lucky as a kid as my Dad was an avid photographer and we travelled the length and breadth of the UK for him to photograph ancient castles, places like Stonehenge,...
New to Lighting? This Explains All (Part 1 of 3)
We spend hours learning all about our cameras, study up on such technicalities as ISO, depth of field and focus, make sure we have all the good gear in terms of tripods, the right SD cards and know our photo or video editing software inside out. Sound familiar? But there...
First Look: PhotoPills APP with Augmented Reality for photographers / videographers
PhotoPills is one of those rare pieces of software – available for iOS and Android – that anyone interested in landscape, sunset, sunrise, timelapse or astro photography / videography should have. As I have written over the last few weeks I am investigating (again) the fascinating world of astrophotography and...