Over the course of 2017 I’ve taken plenty of photos that have been fun, challenging or fortunate. For each of the 12 days (of Christmas) I’m sharing one of my favourite pictures from 2017. #3 – Rosie I first worked with Rosie down in Surrey. Our shoot plan was totally thrown out of the window …
At this years Scott Kelby Worldwide Photo Walk I ran a competition for the people who joined my walk. It was a series of questions about things that they might see on the way round the walk. The prize was a 1/2-day 1-2-1 training session with me. Joy Rawlins won the prize on the day. …
This week I’ve delivered another beginners Speedlite workshop at Canon’s UK head office in Reigate. I had a great group of attendees who had joined to learn more about flash photography. This weeks class was pretty standard for this beginners workshop, a mix of Speedlites – mostly 430EX and 600EX – and cameras from the …
Video recording of my “customising your EOS camera, beyond the basics” presentation from last months Photography Show. At the Photography Show in Birmingham last month, Canon UK invited me to deliver several presentations each day on their education stage. I have now recorded the first of those presentations about customising your EOS and published it on …
I’m back at the Photography Show this year delivering seminars each day on the Canon education stage. I’m delivering three presentations each day, with an early morning, noon and night schedule. you can find my seminar schedule on the Photography Show website, and I would suggest you pop by the Canon stand early in the day …
Earlier this week was the first of this years Speedlites for beginners workshops. I was working with new model Tilly, for this one, and so I made sure to get a few photos myself. All the shots in the post were taken with E-TTL flash. Some are possible with the camera set to aperture priority …
Yesterday evening I travelled along the snow lined M4 to Newbury Camera Club for the first camera club talk of 2017. I have delivered several talks for Newbury camera club and it’s always great one invited back for another one. They had as led me to talk about lighting with small flashes, Speedlites, and we agreed …
I’ve just completed a series of four workshops over the last two weeks, three have been camera specific covering the the EOS 70D, EOS 5D Mark III and the EOS 7D Mark II. Earlier this week I ran a beginners Speedlite workshop. Of all the workshops I run, the Speedlite flash ones are of the …