Author Archives: paulcoxphotography

Off camera flash workshop in Ford, West Sussex

Switchphotography have been kind enough to invite me to their studio in Ford, West Sussex.  We have the wonderful Kayt Webster Brown as model and an excellent makeup artist.  There are 6 places available and 2 have gone already, get in touch with Switch if you’re interested.  Link to their studio page is here Tweet

View full post »

Out and about with Chrissie

Last Sunday I met up with Chrissie for a quick shoot in Dunham Massey.  I’d hoped for a glorious sunset but ended up with a rather overcast evening, I’ve not done a lot of work outside recently so this gave me an opportunity to try out a few ideas with the aid of Chrissie’s partner...

View full post »

One to One training

I’ve recently started doing one to one training, now that I have more time in Manchester and easy access to Hallam Mill Studio.  Yesterday Dan came to see me for some help with lighting.  He had many years of natural light experience but wanted a little help with flash.  We were lucky enough to have...

View full post »

Using blue gels for creative effect

You often see posts about using CTO (colour temperature orange) gels in images to add a bit of warmth to certain parts of the image.  This is a really good suggestion and it also makes the background look more blue as well.  However what I wanted to do was to make rather dull natural light...

View full post »

Shooting tethered with the Apple iPad

One of the things I like to do during workshop is show students the images as I take them.  So far this has been achieved by taking a Mac mini and NEC Spectraview screen to the location and shooting tethered with a long USB cable in to Phase One Capture One.  This set-up works great...

View full post »

L a t e s t   n e w s
M y   F l i c k r
T w i t t e r