Sep 1, 2011

The Canon 5D MK II is a fantastic peice of kit: a brilliant camera for still photography, and pretty darn fantastic for videos too. Check out these music videos, all filmed with the...

Aug 25, 2011

If you’re a regular reader of LearningTheLight.com, you’ll have noticed that I like wedding photography – a lot. I’ve written a piece on why you can learn lots from wedding photography, for instance, and have recently been lucky enough to interview two top wedding photographers, Emma Case and David Charlwood. Anyways, I was lucky enough...

Aug 16, 2011

I’m really thrilled to bring you an interview with David Charlwood today, a fantastic wedding photographer from the UK. David was one of the very first photographers I started to follow on Twitter (follow him here), and he also featured in my very first ‘I Wish I’d Taken This Photo’ article back in March 2010. So, without further ado,...

Aug 15, 2011

A couple of weeks ago I asked our followers on facebook if they had their own website, blog or Flickr stream, and I was really, really impressed with the quality of the sites people had. So I thought I’d link to their sites here, just as a small thank you for following us on facebook, and for taking part and communicating with us there. (By the way, if...

Aug 8, 2011

Emma Case I’m very excited to announce the first of what will be a new series of posts on LearningTheLight.com: ‘Learn From The Experts’, where professional photographers will share their tips, tricks, anecdotes and words of wisdom for us all. And I’m even more excited that our first expert on board is none other than Emma Case, of...

Aug 6, 2011

The Canon Rebel T3i (also knows as the 600D in Europe) has been out for a fair few months now, and has garnered fantastic reviews around the web. It’s a great DSLR, and one that I would thoroughly recommend for both the enthusiast and beginner photographer. Below you’ll find 10 great examples of just what this camera can achieve, as well as how the...

Jul 5, 2011

The following is a guest post by Expansys. Do you have some photography tips or tricks that you’d like to share with our readers? Contact us and we’ll look to get your article up on the site! When summer arrives the world is full of colour, daylight hours are longer and many people head off on holiday. It is this time of year, along with Christmas,...

May 8, 2011

If you have a DSLR and love taking photos of your family and friends, you’re soon going to be known as ‘The Photographer’. Now, this is no bad thing – indeed, it’s nice that people think you can take some good shots – but one of the things this means is that you never end up having any photos that you’re actually in...

Apr 19, 2011

What do you get when you cross a whole bunch of cameras, a lot of willing photographers, and a massive amount of creativity? The Matrix on a budget, that’s what! Check out this fantastic...