Yes i’m going green for the weekend Just a quick post as I’m about to head for the airport for a trip to the Emerald Isle to deliver photo workshops and seminars over the weekend. Saturday: Mahers Photographic, Drogheda I’m really excited and pleased to be invited back to deliver two sessions of seminars in …
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Sometimes when you shoot pictures at events, it’s quite easy to skip over them in the continuous drive for other things, or maybe you are just too busy right then. The pictures are shot, used at the event and filed but not much else. I’ve been doing some picture searches for an up and coming …
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Recently I worked with a talented group of models, actors and make-up people to produce pictures with a mimes and harlequins theme. One of the keys to these pictures is the expression on the faces of the models, we’re not after the normal, but we need the expressive and with these great performers that’s what …
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Hotrod Strip & Octa Box now with added control Lastolite’s popular Hotrod Strip Box and Octa Box are great for photographers who work with flash on location or even in the studio. Using the strip boxes to give accent light on the sides of athletes combined with a main light directly on the face is …
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Behind the scenes It’s popular to show some outtakes or making-of type behind-the-scenes videos and images. In many cases this needs a separate camera operator to capture this while the action takes place. I had a thought about using Linked Shot with the Speedlite 600EX-RT and ST-E3-RT to take a few behind the scenes pictures …
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Two card slots – backup as you shoot Rec. to multiple With several EOS cameras now having dual card slots it is possible to back-up your photos as you shoot. For the wedding photographers, and those working on pictures that can never be repeated having two copies of the file each time you press the …
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Tethered shooting to Lightroom EOS 6D supports tethered shooting using Canon’s EOS Utility software, and it’s a simple case to set up the tethered shooting over a WiFi link thanks to the camera’s built-in WiFi feature. Currently Lightroom 4.3 doesn’t support tethering of the EOS 6D via USB or WiFi connections, so you have to …
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I’m running a studio lighting workshop at Green Lens Studio in Harringay on 9th December 2012. 4-Hour studio lighting workshop Requirements It is expected that attendees will be able to know how to set shutter speed, aperture, ISO and white balance on their cameras, and that the camera has a standard hotshoe or pc connection …
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