Blog
Since 2013, I’ve published hundreds of blog posts on all aspects of photography. Some are aimed at helping photographers with camera gear, settings and technique while others describe my workshops, exhibitions and adventures in Africa, Antarctica and beyond.
Feel free to browse chronologically or click on the heading above any post for specific categories, such as Equipment, Trips or Hints and Tips.
If you’d like to write a guest post, I charge £50 + £10 per dofollow link. Please drop me a line on +44 7942 800921 or at nick@nickdalephotography.com.
(Please note that some posts contain affiliate links from which I can earn a small commission.)
Lightroom Settings
In the last year, I've started doing all my photographic post-processing in Lightroom. It's the program used by most professional photographers and is reasonably user-friendly, but the problem is choosing all the right settings.
Putney Lawn Tennis Club Christmas Craft Fair
Thanks to everyone who braved the wind and rain last night to come along to my tennis club's Christmas Craft Fair. I only sold three cards - the baby owl and the 'peekaboo pig', obviously! - but it was fun to have a chat to the other stallholders and show off my work to a few more innocent punters!
Glaziers' Art Fair
Dentists. Nobody much likes dentists, but I won't hear a word said against them. The first two prints I ever sold were bought by a dentist, and I've just sold seven more to another one!
Putney Artists' Open House 2015
I just wanted to thank everyone who came to my Open House exhibition over the last two weekends. It was nice to be able to show off my work and tell a few stories about taking the pictures, and I hope you enjoyed the exhibition.
This Is Africa
People generally use TIA as a shorthand to explain the everyday frustrations of power cuts, traffic jams and endless delays, but it should also be a cry of wonder.
Don't Poke the Bear!
Twenty years ago, I was staying with my best friend Mark in Golders Green and found myself chatting with his mother. She was in her seventies, but I politely asked if she'd been anywhere nice recently.
"Yes," she said, "I've just come back from watching the bears catching salmon in Alaska."
That'll teach me...!
Royal Ascot 2015
I went to Royal Ascot on Friday and took a lot of pictures of beautiful people, but I do apologise if I didn't get round to you and your friends!
Exhibition at the Norman Plastow Gallery
My travel and wildlife photography exhibition is over now, so I just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who came along. I hope you all enjoyed the show!
Every Picture Tells a Story: Red Xmas Tree Star with Bokeh Lights
I live in an Art Deco mansion block in Putney, and every year the porters put a Christmas tree in the entrance hall.
Every Picture Tells a Story: Close-up of Golden Eagle Head with Catchlight
I’m a photographer (among other things), and this is the first of a series of posts about my favourite photographs. I’ll tell you how I took them and break down the shot into the idea, the location, the equipment, the settings, the technique and any post-processing.
And Then it all Went Bear-shaped…
Beautiful girls are like polar bears: they’re hard to find, and you try to get as close as you possibly can before they turn their backs and walk away.
Hong Kong? Phooey!
When they built Hong Kong, they put the sun in the wrong place. It’s always either behind a building, hidden by a cloud or on the wrong side of the island to see a decent sunset.
Back in the USSR
Before I went to Belarus, I was warned it would be like going back to the Soviet Union: brutalist architecture, statues of Karl Marx and a hankering after the Communist era.
A Photographer’s Bucket List
I make lists. I make lots of lists. Even when people tell me not to, I still make lists.
Tigers and Temples
When you tour India with a beautiful Dutch blonde named after a Norse fertility goddess, it’s bound to be an adventure…
Yosemite and Yellowstone
If they ever made it into a film, they’d cast Minnie Driver as Andreanne, Steven Spielberg as Denni, Matthew Modine as Stefan, Julie Benz as Hannah, Sophie Marceau as Alyona and Matthew McConaughey as Andrew.