Ken Barley

Hi John I think you are on the right lines. You are finding out the annoying fact that almost impossible to shoot the interior of a cathedral and stained glass in one shot! For the window suggest ...

Somebody mentioned the Britain Express website They have a list and map of English Cathedrals. https://www.britainexpress.com/Where_to_go_in_Britain/Cathedrals/Cathedrals1.htm The list gives ...

Re Stained glass The problem is not bright light, it is direct sunshine. This gives uneven lighting and "hot spots". That's why I prefer overcast. FYI my starting settings for stained glass ...

Some good advice above, especially from Redhenry regarding northern cathedrals. A few points 1. Don't rely on information more than a few years old, Durham had a "no photography" policy until ...

Thanks Mike Agree totally.

Thanks for your comments Ken. Just to clarify one point. The first shot I posted was a quickie taken on my phone. Yes I know I could have held better! The important thing was that it started the ...

Living in a relatively flat area you soon realise that sky can be a large part of a picture so you take an interest in the weather! Hemingford Grey, Cambridgeshire Thanks for your comments Ken

Wow. These are superb! I assume the 52-shot one from the top of the Duomo was handheld as suspect they would not let you take a tripod up.  With 463 steps to the top I would have needed one of the ...

Thanks for all your feedback Some comments Poldersnapper Sweet spot on lens. Great thought. Can see that my favourite zoom is pretty distortion free at about 28mm Tom Axford Agree about keeping ...

I’ ve rarely tried stitching panoramic shots in the past. However recently had a subject that deserved it. Needless to say I botched it for lots of reasons. Fortunately I also took a panorama with ...

You state "my other cameras seem to get the colors from lighting more correct." I suggest that you and a friend do a test: Shoot the same scene at exactly the same moment with different cameras. If ...

I think it is worthwhile posting a "before - after" of a difficult lighting situation. Taken long ago with a K-5 inside cathedral at Monreale, Sicily. ISO 6400, f3.5 1/100.19mm on Sigma 17-70 . Art ...

Read the tail end of my old thread. There are comments on magenta / blue, and somebody talks about shooting in theatres. (Of which I know nothing!) Basically there is no setting you can use. You ...

The phrase "indoor settings" is the clue. Most lighting has gone to LED. This gives problems: a) discontinuous spectrum b) flicks on and off either 50 or 60 times / second. I hit this problem with ...

My first dealings with Jessops was a mail-order slide projector in the mid 1970s. The speed of delivery was way better than other suppliers. Then the occasional visit to the Hinckley Road store in ...

The chart in my post was not done through Flickr. Used a piece of freeware called ExposurePlot. Quite old but runs OK on Windows 10. Download from https://www.vandel.nl/exposureplot.html Pulls data ...

I did a Silk Road trip in 2018, covering the usual suspects of Khiva, Bukhara, Samarkand and Tashkent. I took approx 2200 shots and kept about 70%. A subset are in my Flickr album. They have full EXIF.

There is a way to group albums within Flickr. It is called Collections. You can group albums into collections and have up to 5 levels of collection https://www.flickrhelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/4404 ...