Philip Watts

So far in my portraits I have used trial and error to get the results that I want. I thought that I would try and use lighting ratios to see if that would speed up my guess work and give me a better understanding of my options.

Below are the results of a test that I did which did not give me the results that I had expected. The fill light at a…[Read more]

I have reached the point where I do not think that I can progress artistically unless I understand why I love photography so much and what I am doing it for. Reading and viewing Youtubes around the subject, many talk of the artist “haveing something to say”. Well, I am not sure I do, or do not really understand what they mean.

When I take a…[Read more]

Currently I am very much into minimilalism, so another really simple shot.

I typical sunset scene but I loved the snow springled over the hills in the foreground.

However, somehow this has not turned out the way I had hoped, and I am nit quite sure why.

Viewing the actual sunset was fantastic, but somehow the photograph has failed to capture all of it’s beauty and majesty.

Any thoughts please so I can do better next…[Read more]

Frosty weather in the UK at last.

I was getting a bit bored of the outdoor still life I have been doing over the last week, so set myself the challenge of getting four “interesting” photographs from my living room.

All good proctise they say!

One of the things  love about photography is that it teaches you to look, and sometimes it is best just to look.

I always take my camera when I walk the dog in the mornings. I try to take one or two images and then put the camera away and just look and admire the other beautiful things that I see. My shutter finger gets itchy, but sometimes it…[Read more]

My recent images have all been taken “in situ” without any manipulation or setting up of the subject and this is in the same mould. i.e. It is a candid shot.

As such I am tempted to leave it as it is. It is “real”, but are there any adjustments I could make without taking away from that rawness?

I am not sure why, but this is one of my favourite pictures.

I like it’s abstract nature and the dynamic contrasts that it has. And the fact that you can get a picture from a few old stalks of maize in a flooded field!