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As discussed in my last post, when colourists are grading film, they look to use colour to enhance the message the director is trying to portray. We can do the same with stills photography and use colour to enhance the message or story, we as photographers are trying to convey. We will start with the Hue or overall colour of ...

Sophie at the Life Guard Hut #2 The current trend to give photos a cross process look (or colour treatment) is certainly a visually interesting effect. The effect, applied in post process, once needed a little bit of Photoshop foo (and originally a bit of darkroom magic) to achieve but the advent of apps like Hipstamatic and Instagram, h...

First neutrino observation in a hydrogen bubble chamber The BBC had a great programme on last week regarding the recent discovery by the OPERA experiment in Italy, done in collaboration with CERN. To cut a long story short Einstein's theory of relativity states that the speed of light is an absolute universal speed limit and no...

I have been working on a side project at work and in my spare time digitising some old maps I had, you can read more on the back story to these maps here. Basically leveraging the power of the Google Maps API and a little Ruby foo to generate the tile pyramid I have set up www.oldmapsofparis.com as an easy way to look at the various ...

I recently tweeted an article on the Guardian by Jonathan Jones justifying why we need art critics. Looking at the buzz around this article there seems to be mixed feeling about his views, but I think he touches on a key point about the wider aspects of our society.

All good art movements have had a manifesto, they are normally linked to a small group of artists with a like minded approach to their work.  Manifestos can help to define a genre but more than that they can keep you focused and set constraints that promote creativity. I was looking for a photographer's manifesto and came across one ...

Storm Thorgerson, the man behind nearly all the Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin album covers, not to mention those of Muse and Biffy Clyro, talks about his work and how Magritte played an influence for the cover of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here.