Entries by Richard Olpin

A Miracle on Silver St… (3/25)

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A Miracle on Silver St… Advent Calendar Pic-a-Day, Day 3/25 One of the exquisite decorations my lovely friend Charlie has on a tree in her Christmas Shop ‘A Miracle on Silver St’ in Dursley.. 9664

Dope Awards… I won!

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A couple of weeks ago I received a mail to say that one of my photos had been nominated for an award, it was this photo of Arleta Andreasik. I accepted the nomination and sent them a few technical details about the shot etc. and thought nothing more of it until this morning, when I […]

Advent Calendar, 1st December

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To keep in the spirit of ‘The best camera is the one you have with you’ I thought I’d start with an iPhone shot. I did actually take it yesterday at Westonbirt, but I did so specifically for this project. Taken on my iPhone 4S and processed on the phone in Camera+ No external editing […]

The Advent Calendar Challenge

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If you’ve never tried a ‘pic a day’ type challenge, here’s an ideal way to get started before you try a whole ‘365’.. Over on my forum we’re planning to do a little ‘Advent Calendar’ project to take a photo each day through December. It’s really simple to get involved, all you need to do […]

RIP Steve Jobs

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Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011 “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving […]

Back in the loop!

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Ooh crikey, it’s been a while since I’ve posted. I’ve been a little out of the loop for the past month or so as most of my spare time has been eaten up by my mum being poorly and she’d spent the last six weeks in hospital. Thankfully she’s well on the mend now and […]

Sensor Cleaning for Training Clients

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I’ve had a couple of comments from recent clients who’ve discovered the scourge of the Digital SLR, dust on the sensor. This can manifest itself as dark splodges on your images, and will be particularly noticeable on smaller apertures. Here’s an example of a blank image (just a piece of paper up against the window): […]

Paris in the Summertime…

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I spent the last week in August in the beautiful city of Paris, where I was very busy with some interesting photographic projects! The main purpose of the trip was to visit my friend Ian who lives there and to help him run a workshop on portrait photography. One of his specialties is engagement/celebration shoots […]

Another happy customer..

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Had a nice email from one of my recent training clients Mike earlier today which included a very kind testimonial about his training day with me last month. Here’s what he had to say.. [frame_right src=”http://www.richardolpin.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/MikeLowe-0578-200×300.jpg” href=”http://www.richardolpin.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/MikeLowe-0578.jpg” rel=’gallery’]Mike Lowe[/frame_right] [quote]Thanks for the one-to-one training that we did. Although I’ve been around photography a while I […]