Quick image enhancement with Digital Photo Professional

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 …

Hard flash lighting for masculine subjects with subtle fill

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 …

Workshop testing

Testing 1…2…3… This past weekend I was one of the fortunate folks selected to road test Glyn Dewis’ workshop. Having run training, workshops and delivered presentations many times myself it is always valuable to see how other folk do things, and I was happy to contribute feedback to Glyn on his workshop. The workshop tester …

Lovely weather for a shoot

I’ve owned an EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM lens almost since it became available in the UK, but for resons I can’t think of I haven’t shot with it much. I think that more often than not I take the smaller and lighter 70-200mm f/4L lens when I have a bag full of kit, …

Alternative viewpoint

Recently I have been doing a lot of shoots with flash both Canon Speedlites and Elinchrom studio lights. Just last week I had a call from fellow photographer Ross Holkham asking if I would like to join him for a shoot. Not being one to turn down the chance to shoot, and actually thinking that …