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I got married! And here are the pictures to prove it. Warning: Article contains a boat load of images. We started off our travels to Gretna Green by visiting a farm shop in cumbria. This is some soap from said shop: Before getting to our destination we made another detour to Penrith castle: And another detour to… We finally made it to Gretna: Our room at the Smiths hotel was pretty nice: We...
My mother has recently written a book about westmorland history. It covers the 1841 cencus for westmorland. You can purchase her book by visiting her website
I have decided that 2015 will be a good year to do the 365 (pic a day) project. Which means I will be taking an image every day for the rest of the year. With my new D750 and all the lenses I could ever want, I should have no excuse but to take lots and lots of lovely picture this year and this project will force me into making use of such a good setup...
Back in June of 2013 I decided to purchase a D5100, since then I have learnt that I really enjoy photography so it only seemed sensible to upgrade my gear that is exactly what i have done - I have just purchased Nikons recently announced D750. The D750 is a full frame camera, which is a big upgrade from my entry level D5100 and although I have only had the camera a few days I...
Yesterday was my last day at Forepoint Ltd although I have learnt a lot over the 2 and a half years I have been there, it left like it was time to move on. Fortunately the BBC in Salford, Manchester were/are hiring so I applied. Long story short, I am starting there on Monday as a Software Engineer in the TV & Mobile Platforms and will be working on products such as iPlayer. Whilst leaving Forepoint I didn't want...
This article contains my notes for the IOP course. Keep things simple, make the subject the centre of attention. One of the most useful options at your disposal is being able to switch the frame between horizontal and vertical. Lines Horizontal lines can increase a sense of horizontal movement. Vertical lines can produce very strong images and convey power, strength and growth. Diagonal lines can be used to great effect to draw the viewers eyes...
This article contains my notes for the IOP course. Anything below 1/60th of a second for the shutter speed and you will need a tripod. Halving and doubling e.g. f/11 and 1/250 shutter speed, move the aperture down one stop to f/8 will require you to move the shutter speed up to 1/500. Changing the shutter speed is isolation is never a good idea as usually you also require to change the aperture and ISO...
This article contains my notes for the IOP course. Exposure control Each f-stops either halfs or doubles the amount of light. Large aperture will give you a background which is out of focus, e.g. f2 A small aperture will give you a image with everything in focus Depth of field is influenced by three important factors how far away your subject is from your camera lens the aperture the focal length Spot metering Works by measuring light...
This article contains my notes for the IOP courses unit 2, understanding the technology of digital photography. Megapixels A megapixel refers to the size and resolution of the pictures that a digital camera can produce. Light sensors are pixels. The term megapixel is the total number of light sensors a cameras image sensor has. The resolution of a digital photograph is defined by the total number of pixles it contains. A cameras resolution is calculated by multiplying...
After setting up Nginx, I wanted to test how ruby on rails with passenger is on it. So basically I have had a lot of fun trying to get passenger working. In short, you have to reinstall Nginx with passenger support. To do this I had to remove it via apt and then followed this tutorial: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-rails-and-nginx-with-passenger-on-ubuntu You start off by installing rvm and ruby gems then use the passenger installer to setup nginx. What...