I have been thinking about how we as humans see colour.  

As mad as it will seem to most - I have come to understand that we actually see no colour at all, in fact colour in a real state does not exist.

Instead colour is the result of the minds interpretation of the sequence of signals that pound our retinas as light and here’s how.

First we have to understand that light is Electromagnetic radiation which has huge bandwidths and varying wavelengths.  Some of those Electromagnetic radiati...

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When Your Depth Of Field is in a Circle Of Confusion

I have recently read a few articles and guides that cover the depth of field (DOF) in photography, either about what it is or its application.  Initially I made cut and paste notes of those articles and was going to put together my own article based on those C+P words but I kind of figured ‘isn’t it better to do my own?’  After all most guide lines lead us to be confused in one way or another.
First what is depth of field?

To cut the...

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TEST IMAGES
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For HDR 32bit floating point image:

3 RAW files taken on a canon rebel xti, Focal 18mm, ISO 100, shutter priority at 1/125

image 1= F/11; image 2 = F/22; image 3 = F/5.6
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Why such strange settings? Because the image was a handheld HDR. I could of lowered the ISO to 200 and used the aperture priority setting but then

I would of chanced noise. Also by using the shutter priority with handheld HDR I get softer looking skys and still maintain detail in them...

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I have just finished re-editing the thousands of old photos I have from 2006-08.
Over the next few months I will upload the whole collection under categories such as:

PEOPLE ... Human Perspectives Collection phase 1 complete, please view here
URBAN DECAY ... phase 1 complete, please view here
HERITAGE
NATURE
SCENES
PORTFOLIO

If you have any suggestions please either email me or comment here under the blog in the comments box.

Enjoy.

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As a photographer, with modern paranoia induced by rabid media dogs, photographers are seen to be the demons of the modern society.

Why?
Because very very very few but bad individuals take photos for reasons other than photography.
These people are generally paedaphiles, crooks (gathering data for heists) and of course the infamous terrorist (I bet you imagined a bearded man? right?).

Now there is (at a guess) probably 50,000 pro-am photographers in the UK alone, maybe a little less in germany a ...
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Welcome.

 I am Stuart Perry.




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