Dave Stevenson

Film is dead: long live the digital SLR

by Dave Stevenson on 10 August 2010 in Photography
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There are still a few people who claim that digital images can never truly replicate the ‘feel’ of film, but they’re clearly missing a trick… I went to a press briefing a few years ago. I go to quite a lot of these things: you get to muck around with new hardware, hobnob with PR [...]

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Making sure your website isn’t for sore eyes

by Dave Stevenson on 27 July 2010 in Photography
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Photographers must have an online presence to show off their work, but building eye-catching, image-based sites is no walk in the park. I built my first website when I was 14. Coincidentally, that was also the year I didn’t have my first girlfriend. Building a website, as you know, has always been a pain. HTML, [...]

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Processing: you can have too much of a good thing

by Dave Stevenson on 29 June 2010 in Photography
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The whole point of digital images is that they can be improved with post-processing, but over-manipulate them and you’ll risk becoming clichéd. I wrote a column a couple of months ago along the lines of the death of Photoshop. In it, I suggested that for many professionals, the days of a per-pixel photo editor were [...]

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Push your gear to the limits and not your budget

by Dave Stevenson on 18 June 2010 in Photography

With a little bit of imagination and ingenuity, it’s possible to take pictures that are truly out of this world, without costing the earth. I’ve always wanted to go into space. The initial surge of adrenaline of achieving a life-long dream, a period of mystified wonder and amazement at the sheer scale of everything, followed [...]

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Is the Digital Economy Bill wrong for rights?

by Dave Stevenson on 28 May 2010 in Photography

Copyright is a complex issue, which is why it’s so galling that the Digital Economy Bill was passed by MPs with little understanding of it… If there is a sight more depressing in modern political history than watching 40 Members of Parliament debate the Digital Economy Bill on its second reading in the House of [...]

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Why Evil cameras might be a very good thing indeed

by Dave Stevenson on 18 May 2010 in Photography

Okay, Evil (micro four-thirds) cameras aren’t going to replace DSLRs, but they’re a hell of a lot more convenient for everyday use. Last week, someone asked what I thought the next big thing in the world of cameras was. Since thinking about cameras forms quite a chunk of my income, I was disturbed to find [...]

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