About Sensitive Light
The Sensitive Light site was launched at the beginning of March 2003 and is nothing more than a place to present the results of my photographic interest. I had other sites in the past but to be honest nobody ever visited them.

Different to my previous sites, this site includes a photoblog. A photoblog is a regularly updated chronological web log (blog) of recent work. There is a community of photobloggers and the combination of regular updates, and interaction with others, help to keep the site fresh and my interest sustained.

The frequency of my photoblog updates varies over time, sometimes it's every day, sometimes every few days, and sometimes I have breaks while I look for fresh inspiration.

For an excellent list of other photoblogs I strongly recommend a visit to photoblogs.org


About Me
My name is Graham Jeffery; I live in Hinckley a small market town in the middle of England. When I originally built the site I went by the alias of Sensiti, I can't remember quite why, but I thought it was the right thing to do at the time. So, if you see a reference on the site to Sensiti, it means me.

I have had a lifelong interest in photography and have practiced on and off for the last 30 years. It wasn't until I retired from computing in 2003 that my interest really took off. On accepting the offer of early retirement I invested in a whizzy digital camera and some lenses, and haven't looked back since.

I have no aspiration to become a full time professional photographer; I am enjoying my current situation too much. However, I do undertake and enjoy the commercial commissions and assignments that occur from time to time.

Originally I had intended not to specialise in any particular area of photography, but a review of the site for the last year shows a bias towards nature and portraiture. I'm particularly interested in candid or informal portraits. I guess I'll just continue to go with the flow and see where it leads.


Equipment
All my equipment is made by Canon. I'm not a diehard believer in any one manufacturer; it's just that at the time of purchase there was nothing on the market to touch the 1Ds. I'm not an equipment nut either, in fact after laying out money on an expensive camera I'd rather not read reviews of new models. When I do feel the need to compare hardware or read the latest reviews I usually go to Steves Digicams.

My kit.

Body	Canon 1Ds
Wide zoom lens	Canon 24-70mm
Medium zoom lens	Canon 70-200 IS
Telephoto lens	Canon 400mm DO
Macro lens	Canon 100mm macro
Macro ring flash	Canon MR14EX
Standard flash	Canon Speedlight 550EX

Processing
I shoot in RAW mode with a colour pallet of Adobe 1998, and preprocess all images in Capture One from Phase One. Typically I will review (and adjust as necessary) exposure and colour balance in Capture One, and then pass a 16 bit TIFF image to Photoshop for cropping, and any further adjustments I see fit. Images are stored in 16 bit Photoshop (PSD) format and converted to JPEG for the web or TIFF for printing or supply to customers.

I aim in Photoshop to use non destructive editing, where this is not possible I keep a copy of the image at each stage so that I can always retrace the editing steps back to the original capture.


Photographic philosophy
I am interested in creating high quality, attractive and interesting pictures, and sometimes I succeed. I am not interested in or excited by f stops or technical matters of how a picture is created. I have no strong views about how a photograph should be created; film v digital, b&w v colour, cropping in camera v on the computer or darkroom.

For me it is only the result that counts. The beauty and drama in a landscape, the personality or mood in a portrait, the detail and industry of the hoverfly; these are the results I strive towards.

I am uncomfortable with the label 'artist' it seems rather too fanciful for me. If you want to know more about photography as art, and real photographic artists then you might be interested in Conscientious - a weblog about photography or Coincidences - discussion on the art and craft of photography both make fascinating reading.

If you are of a more technical nature and want to research the finer aspects of technique then I would suggest a visit (many visits) to The Luminous Landscape and also to Digital Outback Photo. For macro photography the Fine Art Photography of M. Plonsky is a must read.


Featured
Sensitive Light has been featured by:
28mm (issue 9)
Yahoo Picks (February 2004)
Summerset Review (Fall 2004)
BBC TV program Click Online reviews Filemagazine.org

In Print:
Front cover of Wiltshire Life (May 2005)
Readers pictures, Digital Photographer (Issue 33)
Web Profiles, Shutterbug (November 2006)


Album cover:
3 Colours Red - The Union of Souls