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I really enjoy working in the studio, particularly when it’s cold outside. Late last year I was shooting at with Bethany, Annie and Elan. The studio space is like many spaces, big and mostly painted white plus it has plenty of lights and modifiers so acheiving all kinds of looks is quite straightforward. However the …

I have done lots of presentations and seminars on Canon Speedlite flash and I like my material to be driven from complete understanding of the facts about how it works and some real world practical experience. Just recently I shot some location pictures in a parkland area in Oxford. Travelling light with no assistant I …

I first saw the EzyBox quad bracket at the Wilkinson Cameras Digital Splash event. After a good discussion with Keith Sanderson from Lastolite I decided to purchase one to use with my Speedlites and a Lastolite EzyBox 60cm x 90 cm softbox that I normally use with my studio lights. EzyBox Quad Bracket Lastolite offers …

Here it’s time to share a few images from the recent #CurryClub studio shoot. The theme for the day was film, and there was a stipulation that film should be shot, so with my roll of Ilford XP2 loaded in the EOS 300 and some of Sandisk’s finest in the EOS 7D ‘just in case’ …

The day is here, time for a trip to the land of ‘lakes and trees’ and for this weekend the world rally championship. It’s a place and event I have visited several times and each time it’s a stunning trip, with good friends, good weather (ok mostly), good healthy food and some of the best …

Earlier this week I had a chance to meet up with new model Steph and do a quick test shoot. We avoided the worst of the rain by shooting under the trees in the woods. All pictures have a mix of ambient and Speedlite flash. For the shots in the woods the flash was bounced …

Gumball 3000 Rally, London March 26, 2011 The Gumball 3000 Rally is open to all kinds of cars, but it’s the supercars actually the hypercars that attract the crowds. It’s not that often that Covent Garden is a car park for Buggattis, Aston Martins, Rolls Royce, Ferrari, Porsche, Bentley, Spyker, Maserati and even the odd …

With record temperatures in the UK for April, there’s been plenty of opportunity to shoot sunset lit photos, and just recently I shot a short session for a new model. The sun was right at the horizon and casting lovely long shadows and also giving very warm skintones, and I knew that shooting RAW would …

It’s often written that you can use hard lights for strong masculine subjects, this post shows some examples of just that and the effect of combining some subtle fill lights with the harder main lights. Starting off with a single hard light and a black background. It was necessary to position the light a little …

I cheated and took two lenses What a great day it turned out to be for the British Touring Car race meeting at Brands Hatch. After some thinking my lens choice for the races turned out to be both of the options so on Sunday my bag had the EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM and …