X Photography: Gannets of Muriwai | Simon Weir
The rugged New Zealand coastline west of Auckland is famous for its black sand beaches and Muriwai, a 60km strip between the thundering surf and the dunes, is popular with tourists and locals alike. At the south end of the Read more …
X Photography: Chasing the Wind – Les Voiles de St Tropez | Simon Weir
Les Voiles – literally „The Winds“ – take place from April to October across the French riviera. Each race brings together some of the most beautiful traditional wooden yachts alongside the most extraordinary modern sailing boats for a week long Read more …
Blurring the Lines – Twisting with the X-T1 | Simon Weir
Dance is one of the most brilliant and yet most difficult things to photograph well. It involves split second timing, precise technique and a deep understanding of your subject. So sometimes it is much better to throw away all the rules and try something completely new…! That is exactly what I did last month when I photographed dancers from Jive Nation at the Marylebone Summer Fayre in London. Right from the start I knew that I wasn’t going to be satisfied with conventional „sharp“ images – there were too many dancers in too small a space so it was impossible to isolate a subject. Instead I used a slow shutter speed technique of dragging the shutter by twisting the camera about the lens axis during the exposure. I first saw this demonstrated by Zack Arias at a GPP workshop last year and have been waiting for a good subject to try it out……
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X Photography: Shooting in the dark… | Simon Weir
Photographing Classical Music often involves shooting in low light levels – especially when the concert involves multimedia and projections – and just such an event took place at London’s LSO St Luke’s earlier this month when the Aurora Orchestra, conducted by Read more …