Heather Angel

Pixiq Expert

6 days ago

Tips for Textures

Textures abound in the natural world – whether they appear as irregular formations or as regular patterns. Large scale textures occur in eroded rock canyons, as dried cracked mud, ripples on a sandy beach, or as the hardened crust of rope lava in Hawaii, [...]

Heather Angel

Pixiq Expert

3 weeks ago

Wilderness Travel 1 Rainforests – Essential Gear

For most people, travelling to a tropical rainforest area is rarely as simple as a single flight. Often it will involve several flights and then a road or river trip. Therefore, you want to make sure you pack essential items which will enable you can continue [...]

Heather Angel

Pixiq Expert

4 weeks ago

20 Tips for Insects on Flowers

Photographing insects on flowers can be hugely rewarding as well as immensely frustrating – especially when the quarry takes flight, just before the shutter is released. Having spent the last four years concentrating on flowers and their pollinators I'm [...]

Heather Angel

Pixiq Expert

1 month ago

Magnificent Magnolias

Magnolia flowers are quite irresistible, no matter how many times you take them, each year they lure you in for a closer look and then you are hooked. 2012 has been a tragic year for avid magnolia snappers here in southern Britain. After an abnormally [...]

Heather Angel

Pixiq Expert

1 month ago

Backlighting Basics

Backlighting helps to define the outline of a solid subject or to bring vibrant colours to life. Backlit landscapes and wildlife depend on the sun shining in the right place at the right time; whereas with macro subjects you can enhance them with your own [...]

Heather Angel

Pixiq Expert

3 months ago

Faking It

Even before digital days there were ways in which images of the natural world could be faked: not least by placing autumnal maple leaves equidistantly spaced out on a rock beside water. You only have to have half an eye to see that that never happens in [...]

Heather Angel

Pixiq Expert

3 months ago

Nikon PB4 Bellows Reborn

Recently I unearthed my old Nikon PB4 bellows (bought new in 1982) only to find the black paint was flaking off both outside and inside the bellows. Knowing the current PB6 bellows does not have the shift and tilt facility on the front extension, I was loathe [...]

Heather Angel

Pixiq Expert

3 months ago

A Natural Plant Support

I have written before about using a Plamp to support the plant stem. There is nothing better – providing you can use the tripod or there is a handy branch for fixing the anchor end of the Plamp. However, there are many times when working on open ground [...]

Heather Angel

Pixiq Expert

4 months ago

Working with Wind

Wind can be a nightmare when working with a long lens on a tripod. Even with a heavy tripod, working with strong gusts is a risky business; quite apart from the struggle to mount the camera securely on the tripod, there is still the risk of it blowing [...]

Heather Angel

Pixiq Expert

4 months ago

Photo Accessories that Fail Security Checks

I was with a photo group and after shooting all day, it was a rush to get to Alice Springs airport, so although I knew I had placed a nail file and scissors in my checked baggage, there was no time to go through my photo pack. I was the last in our group [...]

Heather Angel

Pixiq Expert

4 months ago

Wildlife riches in Chile

Having already worked in Brazil, Ecuador and Peru, I left the UK with Martin at the end of November eager to explore Chile for the first time. We were not disappointed. Chile was my last 2011 location for gleaning shots of intriguing plants and their [...]

Heather Angel

Pixiq Expert

6 months ago

Animal Group Portraits

Rarely am I motivated to take pictures of groups of people; yet I repeatedly take family portraits of animals interacting. This has made me ponder – which is easier? With animals, the downside is that you cannot ask them to look at the camera [...]

Heather Angel

Pixiq Expert

6 months ago

Shooting in the Rain – Safely

I love shooting in the rain. Providing you have some means of protecting the camera, it is perfectly safe and you can get more original shots of the natural world than remaining a fine weather photographer. There is always a small towel stashed into my photo [...]

Heather Angel

Pixiq Expert

6 months ago

Low Key Images: How to Meter

If you don't make a habit of shooting in dark alleys at night, then you may feel this post is irrelevant to you. Certainly, compared to working for days – or even weeks – with high key snowy landscapes, you won't encounter predominately dark-toned [...]

Heather Angel

Pixiq Expert

7 months ago

Isolating subjects 2: Differential Focus

Following on after my first post in this series; where there is no tonal separation critical focus is another way to make the subject 'pop' from the background. In this case, the aim is get the subject sharp, but not the background, so checking the depth [...]

Heather Angel

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