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Splash Photography

Posted: June 25th, 2012 | Tags: | Posted in: Photography

Single Canon Speedlite 430EX II Flash Unit at camera right with Rose Purple gel from the Honl Hollywood filter kit and a Honl 1/8 Speed Grid… not perfect, but good fun for a first try!

WordPress – Custom taxonomy navigation menus

Posted: June 22nd, 2012 | Tags: | Posted in: Tutorials, Wordpress

The product of today’s messing around with WordPress custom taxonomies in a bid to finish a client website – I needed to  generate a navigation based on categories stored in a custom taxonomy. Here’s the gist of it: function displayTaxonomyNav($taxonomy, $baseURL) { $output = NULL; $rangeNames = get_terms($taxonomy, ‘orderby=id&hide_empty=0’); foreach($rangeNames …
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Choo-Choo - Exposure: 1/400 • Aperture: f/5.6 • Focal Length: 18 mm • ISO: 100

Converging (railway) lines

Posted: June 21st, 2012 | Tags: | Posted in: Photography

Railway lines are probably the most common/classic type of photo to take advantage of a scene with converging lines. I had a chance to take one of these shots on the way back from some local woodland. It’s a simple shot taken with a 10-20mm wide-angle lens at …
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Bedroom window photography

Posted: June 20th, 2012 | Tags: | Posted in: Photography

A misleading title, perhaps? – not really. If you’re willing to sit at your bedroom window for long enough (trying not to look like a pervert with a camera) you can grab hold of some pretty interesting photo opportunities. Well, actually, that depends on how much you like …
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