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Angles of View and Crop Factors

Here are some more diagrams I drew to try and understand photography, specifically to understand crop factors and lens lengths.
Sensor Crop Factors
Every camera has a rectangular sensor which captures light. A “full frame” sensor is the same size as an old film negative – 35mm from bottom left to top right corner. Expensive [...]

Saving a Dull Club Photo

Often when taking a club photo you’ll just miss that cool background strobe, and end up with an underwhelming dark portrait that isn’t really usable. That’s fine if you have plenty of good ones in the bag, but sometimes you need a little help. That’s where Lightroom comes to the rescue!
Here’s an example [...]

Portfolio: Corzano e Paterno.com

A trilingual Wordpress site built for the Corzano e Paterno farm in Tuscany, producing prize winning wines, olive oil and cheeses. It’s an old farm in the hills that used to be owned by the Machievellis, which now has a lovely set of guest houses you can rent through the site.

Picasa photo album integration:

The [...]

Hard and Soft Light

Diagrams I drew to explain the relationship of light and subject size and distance, and the softness of light this produced – plus instructions for a DIY portable softbox.

Portfolio: Masabi Rebrand

A complete rebrand for my company, Masabi, as we transition from a general mobile consultancy to a complete focus on the transport ticketing industry. This involved a total branding refresh, new Wordpress-based web site and related brand collateral.

Art in Central London

Last week I got to support some friends posing for the artist Richard Bagguley, dressed as a Roman soldier crucifying Jesus on Oxford St.

Masabists: NFC Roundup 2009

This post was originally featured on the Masabists blog.
After many trials, NFC has been on the cusp of launching in Europe for some time now. It is regularly brought up in conjunction with mobile ticketing, which has been one of the key use cases always quoted for the Felica NFC system available in [...]

Migrating Blogger to Wordpress – Easy 301 Permalink Redirects

This psot explains how to automatically set up the Wordpress Redirection plugin to map imported Blogger post permalinks to their new Wordpress post permalinks.

E-Mail Not Working In PHP / Wordpress? It May Be CPanel MX Records…

I host a few domains through Nativespace and Host Gator (which both use the CPanel interface), and all of them have had one flaw – PHP apps like Wordpress, Drupal, and also Wordpress plugins like the Dagon Design Mailer Script have never been able to send email.  It’s quite hard to track down this kind [...]

Flyer: Bacchus In Rehab

Quick flyer design for my friend Andy’s new play, Bacchus in Rehab:

It’s a shame to have to spoil the photo with so much text, but on an A5 flyer there’s not much room…
Photo is of SP and Emma, ostensibly naked in the bath, which was a highly amusing shoot to do – colour is from [...]