Throwing the seeds of doubt in the face of certainty.

A Relaxed Approach to Philosophy A lot of photography revolves around philosophy and attitude. Over the years, discussing with friends and on online forums, my approach has shifted. Disclaimer My chosen genre is landscape photography, based in Scotland. My inclination is to make more than just documentary photographs: rather than take photos "of a mountain", I prefer to make photographs where some aspect is worth studying whilst retaining a clear link back to realism; hope

An essay describing techniques to improve image-quality: HDR, focus-stacking, stacking, using Photoshop and enfuse.

Stacking for Image Quality What is Image Quality? This can be quite hard a hard commodity to recognise, especially when presented with a photograph, particularly when the definition is unclear but one is familiar with detracting misfeatures. However, I'm going to propose a working definition: image quality is a balance comprising: the degree to which pixels (individually and collectively) in an image are derived directly from a ray of light from subject to sensor; an output similar to what

An essay on choosing camera parameters for image effects.

Photographic Parameters In this day and age, the vast majority of cameras sold (digital, especially dSLRs and compacts) tend to mask the optical properties that determine features of your photographs. An algorithm chooses the settings that gets some part of the scene exposed the way it thinks it should be; another chooses the distance at which to focus; a third might decide whether it needs to pop up an internal flash unit. Unfortunately, this brings much scope for error; if the camera is des