Doddington Hall Sculpture & Ceramics Exhibition

A couple of weeks ago I visited Donnington Hall here in Lincoln to attend a photographic workshop run by Through the Lens Photography's Adam Winfield. Between 28th July and 9th September, Donnington hall was holding a Sculpture and Ceramics exhibition. This had over 400 fabulous sculptures and ceramics from the UK and abroad displayed throughout...

The Photography show 2017

On Sunday I went to this year’s Photography show; this 4-day event runs from Saturday 18th to Tuesday 21st March at the Birmingham NEC. Like previous years, I visited the show with my friend Richard Brown; the only difference is that he drove this year as I no longer have a car. Richard has already...

Lincoln Photo Show 2016

Today's the day of the annual London Camera Exchange (LCE) Lincoln's Photo show at the Lincoln Drill Hall on Free Schhool Lane and runs from 11am - 4pm, entry is as usual free This year it is on a Sunday (previous years were the Wednesday nearest the 5th November - so a bit earlier in...

LCE Photo and Optics Show 2015

Two weeks on Wednesday is this year's London Camera Exchange's Photo and Optics show. I have been attending the show for the last few years now and it gets bigger and better every year, it's a testament to the hard work that's put into this by the LCE staff not only in Lincoln but further...

LCE Lincoln Photo Week

Starting on Monday 8th June both of the Lincoln London Camera Exchanges will be hosting their annual Photo Week. Each store is hosting different events on each day from Monday to Saturday. Unlike last year most companies will only present their company's products at a single Store. Details for the LCE website are as below:...

Off to The Photography Show 2015 today

Thanks to a day off work both Richard and I are off to Birmingham's NEC today to see this year's Photography show. Thankfully Lincoln is not too far from the NEC and so it's only a 1.5 to 2 hour drive depending upon traffic. We both really enjoyed the show last year and although we...

Camera Raw 8.8 now available

Adobe have released Camera Raw 8.8 for Photoshop CS6 and Photoshop CC. DNG Converter 8.8 is provided for all Lightroom customers and Photoshop customers using versions of Photoshop older than Photoshop CS6. The following cameras are now supported: Casio EX-ZR3500 Canon EOS 750D (Rebel T6i, Kiss X8i) (*) Canon EOS 760D (Rebel T6s, Kiss 8000D)...

Sony’s A7 Mark II and Forum nonsense

Last week Sony announced the second version of their popular “35mm full-frame” 24MP A7 camera – the A7 Mark II. Along with a number of feature updates and improvements to the Autofocus system the headline new feature is IBIS or In-Body Image stabilisation. When I read this I was surprised as they seemed to be...

Lightroom 5.7 Available

Thanks to a tweet from Richard I found out that Lightroom v5.7 has been released today. As I use the Creative Cloud for Photographers plan I will need to use their Creative Cloud application on my mac to do the update rather than download it as the screenshot above suggests. This version of Lightroom adds...

LCE Photo and Optics show – full report

Following on from my brief posting about this on Thursday, here is the full write up about the LCE Photo and Optics show 2014. This was the 11th Photo and Optics show and (for me) was the best one ever. We had many photographic retailers and manufacturers at the show and the Live Arena was...