The Pixels in Pete's World

In sports photography, it is all about the moment and most often about freezing the action. When you’re after action, you need high shutter speeds, so it means lots of light. As you know, there can be such a thing as too much light. Such is the case if you were taking pictures at a [...]

The year was 1982. I was 22, fresh out  of aviation school with a commercial pilots license, but working in the cabin as a cabin attendant. The bosses said it was a temporary assignment. 18 months was their best guess of how ‘temporary’ that would be. After 3 years, I decided  it was enough so [...]

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there. My mum like most in her days stayed home and raised us. She prepared 3 meals a day, did laundry, went to the market daily and never had a day off. When my kids were born, she came from Malaysia and stayed for 6 months each [...]

  When you’re a photographer especially one who does portraiture, there’s no such thing as having too many light modifiers. They are, after all, the  brushes with which you use to paint your subjects. If you work primarily on location, these light modifiers tend to take a beating from being set up, taken apart and [...]