Peter Millar - Photography

07/09/2023

03/09/2023

Accidentally found one of my photos in national geographic courtesy of google and alamy ...

King Arthur, Avalon, Christ, the Grail, ley lines, paganism and a submerged village: even without the festival, there’s something about this Somerset town that...

01/09/2023

Time through pictures

The Daily Record has put together 17 photos of everyday life in Scotland back in the 1960s that will take you back 60 years in time before an age of social media and the internet.

06/03/2023

Now this is a better result from merging multiple exposures - altho probably doesn't look it. It is actually creating a longer exposure drone image with the stongest ND filter I have (256), using a 5 shot burst. So each photo was about .25 seconds, and the final therefore 1.25 secs. Likely max with this drone is about 0.5 secs usable, so 2.5 secs final outcome (smaller sensors work longer - maybe 2 secs per shot). More waffle in comments.

06/01/2023

I have been trying to revise Photoshop, and get my head around multiple exposure stuff. It is not going very well.

30/10/2022

Did a photo workshop on the Moray Firth with Kim Grant whose videos sometimes get shared on here. The East Coast of Scotland gets a quarter as much rain as the West, and has great light and subject matter.

12/09/2022

Maybe you have also struggled to find decent videos of drone photography (stills)? Here is one.

Drones are powerful aerial cameras and with them you can make some powerful and epic photos! In this video, I'll give you the 5 steps I use to make sure I ma...

03/08/2022

Maybe you know how in music, part of the art is to trick the ear into hearing a note that isn't being played (when you are messing about with a chord for example)? Similar happens in photography, where sometimes the eye sees something that isn't there; or gives an extra emphasis to something that is there, so that your carefully crafted composition doesn't work for that eye.

Some may think it is magic, and perhaps people were burned at the stake for it in the old days. However, I think that there are explanations in places like psychology and physiology, which are too complicated for me to understand.

20/07/2022

Well now, one of the most difficult questions of the age. If using proper cameras (i.e. not phones) - what do we actually DO with all those digital images?

Join Kim as she heads out for an evening of photography. She shares what she does with all the images she takes and talks about the current devastation being...

24/06/2022

I helped a friend get off "auto" on a Canon G9X, by putting together a collection of "macro" settings (centre point focusing, close-up and continuous AF, continuous shooting, etc.) on to the custom or C1 mode. Then we practised on this frog. 99% of the time "auto" is just fine, but you really need to get off it if you want to do more specialist stuff like macro.

09/06/2022

More on Photography & Wellbeing

Join Kim as she chats to Margaret Soraya about the importance of getting into nature and being creative. Margaret's website: https://quietlandscapes.co.uk/Ma...