Simon Reeve

1st go at HDR Photography

I’ve had a go at HDR (HighDynamicRange) photography.  I’ve heard about for a while and recently Googled to learn more and have a go.  There’s a fair amount of info on the web (including this bit now!), and loads of examples on Flickr.  It seems some people don’t like it, but for some shots, it does create a high contrast wow factor, which I quite like. I’m no expert, but here’s...

Bloco Fogo Caught with Olymous e620

During early September, whilst out doing some Christmas shopping in Tunbridge Wells, my son and I heard some drumming!  It’s was a samba band.  We followed our ears to investigate and found Bloco Fogo playing in the centre by the clock tower. Luckily I had my shiny new Olympus e620 with me, in the hope I’d have cause to use it, and I did! After successfully pushing my way through to...

I’ve bought an Olympus e620 D-SLR

Since 2009 saw a landmark Birthday, and Christmas was looking, I thought it about time to move up from a digital compact camera and get myself a new toy, a Digital SLR. Now many moons ago I used to dabble in photography with an Canon AE-1 of my Dad’s and then my own Canon A-1.  Quick to adopt digital I bought a Sanyo VPC-X350 in 1999, as it did video too.  Nothing special by today’s standard,...