OPG Review: Delkin Express Card 34 Compact Flash Adapter
I recently gave the Delkin Express Card 34 Compact Flash Adapter a try for Outdoor Photo Gear, as a proud member of their Gear Advisory Board. Here are my findings. I chose to try this Compact Flash Adapter from Delkin because I like the idea of having a slimline adapter that I can throw into [...]
Podcast 204 : Q&A #11 – Signing Images and Fine Art Prints
Last week I did my first Q&A podcast for a year, and actually had started out planning to answer questions from two listeners, but spent so much time answering the first question, I postponed today’s answer by a week. It’s great to get into these listener’s questions though, so again, if you have any questions, [...]
Canon EF 50mm F1.2 L Lens’ Dynamic Back-Focus
On August 1st, I bought a Canon EF 50mm F1.2 L USM Lens. I’d been thinking of getting this lens for a long time, though had held off because I heard that it back focused when trying to focus on things close to the lens. For much of my current work though, if I’m working [...]
Podcast 203 : Q&A #10 – Shooting with Grey Skies and Why Manual Mode?
Today, in the first Q&A episode for a year, I answer a question from a listener about shooting under a grey sky, and I also go into detail on why I use Manual Mode, especially in challenging exposure situations. Use this audio player if you’d prefer to listen: The question that I’m going to answer [...]
Podcast 202 : Lens Review – Lensbaby Composer
About six weeks ago I bought a Lensbaby Composer, and although I released an Initial Impressions review here on my blog straight away, having now had a chance to take it through its paces a little more, here’s a more in-depth review of what I’ve found to be more than a lens. In some circumstances [...]
Being in the Zone
In Episode 131 of the Audio2u Shutter’s Inc. Podcast, Richard Annable posed the questions “Why do you photograph things? Why are you a photographer?”. Some of the group’s answers were quite profound, and I do suggest that you put yourself through the ordeal of listening to this mammoth episode yourself to find out what they [...]
Podcast 201 : Towada Lake Images
While in Aomori photographing the beautiful Oirase Mountain Stream, I stayed in a hotel at the Towada Lake, which is about 10 to 15 minutes away from the road that runs along the mountain stream that we looked at last week. Use this audio player if you’d prefer to listen: The Towada Lake is really [...]
Podcast 200 : Oirase Mountain Stream (200th Episode!!)
This is Episode 200!! Yeeeey, wooh! It’s been almost 4 years now since I started the Martin Bailey Photography Podcast and today marks the 200th episode. I almost can’t believe it. Bear with me as I revel in this for a few minutes, but I want to talk just a little while today before we [...]
Podcast 199 : June ’09 Assignment – Everything in Focus – Results
Just a quick post to accompany the 199th Podcast in which we take a look at the three images that received the most votes from their peers in the June 2009 photography assignment, on the theme of Everything in Focus. This was an interesting assignment again, following on from the Nothing in Focus assignment in [...]
My New Post Sensor Cleaning Check-List
Last week I took two camera bodies to Canon’s Service Center in Shinjuku, Tokyo, to have the sensors cleaned. Of all the times I’ve had the sensors cleaned by Canon, never once have they changed settings on the camera, so I don’t pay much attention to checking that my settings are still in tact when [...]
Podcast 198 : More Things I’d Not Like to be Without
Way back in April 2007 I released Episode 84 of the Martin Bailey Photography Podcast, in which I spoke about 10 items that I would really not like to be without, in my photography. Just over two years have passed, and I have a few more things that I feel compelled to talk about today. [...]
Podcast #197 : Ambient Light Product Shoot
Just under a year ago, in Episode 151 of this Podcast, we looked at my Speedlite studio lighting, and I gave some tips on how I handle that gear etc. Today we’re going to take a look at a simple way to light products to shoot only with ambient light. There’s nothing really amazing or [...]
“The Four Seasons of Namiki” Tearsheets
You might remember a couple of Podcast episodes that I released last year, in which I covered two photography assignments that I’d done for a client in Paris. The first assignment was to photograph a Lacquer Gatherer, in the Iwate Prefecture, way up north in Japan. This was a four day assignment, including travel. The [...]
Lessons Learned from the Luxury of Self-Portrait
I hate having my photo taken!! Or do I? This Sunday I had to set up a black screen to do a quick video for someone, and decided that it was time to update my self portrait photograph. I know it’s a very newbie thing to include your camera, but having seen Michael Reichmann have [...]
Podcast 196 : Good Things Come To Those Who Wait
There’s no doubt, that patience is a virtue. I can be very impatient with things that I can control. But, once I decide that I “need” a piece of gear for example, as long as I can budget for it, there’s little that can stop me from buying it. I’ve been burned with this a [...]
The Lensbaby Composer – Initial Impressions
I recently ordered a Lensbaby Composer, and after spending almost a week in the current very crowded Tokyo customs facility, it arrived today. Excited like a little kid, I left the office as early as possible, and then ate dinner itching all the time to open the little package to my right. After clearing the [...]
Podcast 195 : May ’09 Assignment – Nothing in Focus – Results
Today we take a look at the winners of the May Assignment with the theme “Nothing in Focus”, and congratulate the winner of the first Accumulated vote Grand Prize of 2009. Use this audio player if you’d prefer to listen: Unfortunately, before recording this episode, I didn’t notice that the third and second place had [...]
Bitter-Sweet Feelings for an Old iPhone Photo
When I go out shooting, I usually put my memory card into my Lexar FireWire 800 card reader as soon as I walk in the door, and start my download. If I’m coming home from an extended trip, the images will be on hard drives etc. but still, the first thing I do before I [...]
Almost Too Easy!
Things are getting so easy! This is a good thing of course, most of the time… When I first bought my Canon Pixus Pro 9500 printer, the first time I had to change an ink cartridge I was lost. I’d been used to having to press buttons for a number of seconds etc. to get [...]
Changes to the MBP Podcast Feed
The file that iTunes or other RSS feeds reads to see if there are new podcasts out got a little bit bloated with all the information for the 200 episode archive. Because of this, I decided to put it on a diet, and made a few major changes.
Jon Sheer’s Eternal Japan Exhibition
On Saturday the 6th of June, I had the pleasure of attending a party to mark the opening of Tokyo based photographer, Jon Sheer’s exhibition, Eternal Japan. Today I released an Interview with Jon on my Podcast.
Photography Assignment/Competition Prizes!
Our new sponsors WebSpy have generously donated $1,000 for prizes for our assignment winners! The top three people receiving the most votes from the following six assignments, from June to November, 2009, will receive some amazing prizes!
Martin Bailey Photography :: The Blog! Goes Live!
After many years of editing HTML and PHP directly to create just about everything on my site, I figured it is time to make things a little easier on myself, and create a blog!
Podcast 190 : Ten Steps to Great Long Exposure Images
Following on from Episode 201of the Martin Bailey Photography Podcast, I thought I’d post the transcript for Episode 190, in which I gave you ten steps to great long exposure images. So here goes… Use this audio player if you’d prefer to listen: Long Exposures can push a photographer and our gear a little out [...]
