Andy Moor Photography

Let's use it for not what it was made for The universal test of just how good something is. Oh my, I am never going to get tired of seeing that.  So, the Lytro Illum . If you follow me on Twitter, you'll be sick to death of hearing about it and if you know me in person, you'll have already punched me. I keep talking about this camera. It's an innovative idea which, at first glance, seems to work well, something you can read more about here !  If you have read that post, you already know that this camera is made for a specific purpose; moving images. Not like video or cinemagraphs, but panning, zooming and focus shifting on a still image, something that has been proven difficult or near impossible before. But as a camera, we also expect that it should serve another purpose, one that is sort of expected when you buy a camera. To take photographs. [1]  Yesterday, my wonderful better half and I both decided to go on a trip to Scarborough, UK, roughly ...

The Lytro Illum (First impressions)  So you have your hobby, your job, your daily activities. You have your way of doing things; a set of mental directions and guidelines that you have developed over the years. But imagine that one day, something happens. You start mixing your whites in with your coloured wash to improve your wardrobe. You go back to pen and paper because Word doesn't have enough font choices. You introduce golf clubs into your local football club because you feel your hands are useless. Now imagine someone took your camera and did that, giving it a whole new purpose. That's exactly what Lytro did. Looks good sat on top of a granite chopping board.  In 2014, Lytro introduced the Illum. Although this may look the lovechild of your typical DSLR and the loins of Tron Legacy, it is not your everyday camera. This is another page in the book of Light Field photograph technology. It's a hard concept to explain, but an easy one to understand, so ...

Yesterday I went on a walk with my camera But it was not just a walk in the park. I'm going to talk in this post about where to shoot when you're bored, but instead of just saying "Hurr hurr go to a city hurrdehurr go to a forest", I'm going to go to those places and hopefully give some insight into what I learned during my trip there, which in turn should hopefully help you out when deciding where to go on a slow, unoccupied day. Let's make the first photo one of the worst. It's a nice photo, don't get me wrong, but I feel that I really need to find better ways to capture flowers. Anyway...  It was a Friday morning, the sun was trying to push its way through the onslaught of thick, grey clouds, and I just decided that for whatever reason, in that moment, I wanted to take my camera (and more kit) outside. Maybe it was boredom, maybe it was passion, maybe it was neither, who knows. Right near me (about a half mile walk) is the small villa...

I am very  late to this party, but... The Samsung Galaxy Camera, model EK-GC100. With a now-favourable price tag and a unique OS choice, is this Android-based compact camera worth having in 2018?  This compact 16MP camera features a 23mm f/2.8-5.9 zoom lens, capable of 21x optical zoom, which is a big deal for someone like me. But the main attraction was the software. This camera runs Samsung's iteration of Android Jelly Bean 4.1.2. [It should be understood that this camera was released around the same time as the Galaxy Note 3, and thus, is from that era. Standards and software were both very different back then, something that's worth keeping in mind when reading this.]  First things first, let's see what you get in the box. It's sort of bog standard, really. You find the camera itself, a mini USB cable, a charger and a spare battery, which is a nice addition.  So my first call when setting up my new toy is to download every app I feel I ma...

Your typical title to your typical first blog entry ...and of course, what better way to follow up a typical title to your first typical blog entry with a typical introduction to what your typical blog may talk about in the future.  There are going to be 3 types of people seeing this page: those who know me personally, those who remember me from my YouTube days and those who have found my photography pages.   So a small bit of background about me. I am Andy, at the time of writing this, I'm a 24 year old photo and video enthusiast. Capturing, editing, producing, it's my life. I started out doing all of this on YouTube, in the form of Minecraft editing. Typical activity for the modern day 12 year old, right? Except I was 17. Yeah, that happened. Anyway, I lived that life for a good few years, working for "clients" (12 year old who wanted Call of Duty or Minecraft videos edited), developing my knowledge of After Effects and other platforms, ...