Canon has released a new firmware update for the EOS 6D EOS 6D firmware update version 1.1.4 Canon says that firmware version 1.1.4 includes the following revisions and feature fixes. Firmware Version 1.1.4 is for cameras with firmware up to Version 1.1.3. If the camera’s firmware is already Version 1.1.4, it is not necessary to …

Tales from the road… Helsinki, Finland After a somewhat OMG-E (oh my god its early) 04:45 alarm call this morning, I’m now in Helsinki to deliver a day of photo training tomorrow. Despite this being a really short trip – flying back tomorrow night – the awesome folks of Finland have provided a vista from …

Oxford Fashion Week is now over for the spring of 2014, but the work on the images and video continues. On the final show, the Couture Show, I decided to shoot a time-lapse sequence of the whole show in addition to still images. The result was over 1,500 8MP JPEG images from the EOS 7D …

This past few nights – and tonight for one more night – I’ve been photographing the Oxford Fashion Week runway shows. It’s been a series of late nights, and manic turnaround times of heaps of images each and every night. If you’d like to see a few of the photos – created from those late …

Lastolite is at The Photography Show in Birmingham that opened it’s doors this weekend. Lastolite has some awesome new products including  three new items in the Joe McNally Signature Collection. If there’ good enough for Joe then every other photographer thinking about light should definitely take a look. The incredible Lastolite Urban Backgrounds have also …

Canon’s popular cashback promotion returns with up to £210 cashback on some lenses. All the lenses in this Spring promotion are the top performing L-series models. Spring 2014 the cash back promotion covers the following products… As always the full details and terms for this promotion are best read direct from the source: Canon UK …

Custom shooting modes are found on many advanced EOS cameras, but in my training experience I rarely find photographers making use of them. For the recent Oxford Fashion Week model casting sessions I made use of the custom shooting mode on the EOS 5D Mark III to rapidly switch between shooting with flash and shooting …

Lastolite the folks that make those clever fold up backgrounds have another solution to the perennial problem of holding backgrounds in place and not having them sag by only supporting the centre hanging point. The new Magnetic Background Support holds on to the metal rim of the Lastolite backgrounds, even older backgrounds should work too. …