Earlier this month, Zay Yar Lin was announced as the Amateur Photographer of the Year, 2020. I’m a big fan of his work and he is a very worthy winner.
By day, he works as the Captain of a ship, but manages to find enough time to capture some fantastic images, two of which won rounds in this year’s APOY competition. He was announced overall winner with 77pts, just above Tony North in second place with 66pts.
(more…)I recently purchased an A3 printer. You can see my unboxing video here.
I’ve been wanting to get one for a while and have read quite a few different reviews for various models. From what I read, it seemed the Epson XP-970 would make an excellent value printer. Perhaps not quite as good as some of the options sitting around the £400-£600 mark, but certainly punching above its own £200 price tag.
So far I haven’t been disappointed – the prints are coming out great. The detail is really good and I’m really happy with the colours. I’m currently experimenting with different papers to see what gives the best results.
It’s really convenient to be able to print your own images whenever you feel like it, and it feels great to be able to hold something tangible that you created. I certainly recommend giving it a try if you haven’t already.
I will be posting further experiments with the printer in upcoming videos, so stay tuned for those. The best way to do that is to subscribe to my channel, and that way, the videos will pop up in your feed.
I’m extremely pleased to announce that I’ve recently just hit 200 subscribers over on my YouTube channel.
I never thought I would have reached that many so soon, and I’m very grateful to each and every one of you that has subscribed. It really means a lot and gives me extra motivation to keep making videos each week.
If you’re not part of the club yet, why not go and do it now? Just click on this link to subscribe.
Thanks everyone.
Every week, Paul Cook of pc3photos puts out an episode of “Friday Night Behind the Lens”. In each video he interviews a different YouTube photography vlogger, and I was very pleased to be invited to chat with him earlier this week.
(more…)Rather than relying purely on optical processes, computational photography makes use of digital computation to augment the image making process. If you use a smartphone camera, you’re almost certainly already benefiting from computational processes.
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