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 …
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 …
Last week I was quickly reading some tweets while waiting to start my day’s presenting task and saw a tweet from Dutch photographer Frank Doorhof. I’ve exchanged quite a few twitter conversations with Frank over the last year or more and Frank’s tweet was asking for pictures that he would critique. I had the final …
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, …
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 …