In October I’ll be launching a couple of new workshops, these are available for booking in the workshops section of the site but thought I’d discuss them in a bit more detail here. On the 1st October I’ll be launching a new water photography workshop. I had to stop doing my previous workshop when I...
My lighting style is largely defined by the environment in which I shoot. If I were based in California I’d no doubt be trying to make best use of the brilliant sunshine they enjoy. As it happens though I’m in Manchester, a rather less sunny place, but I still want the natural light to feature...
Since I published my first blog post about ‘tethered’ shooting from the Nikon D3 to the iPad, using the eye-fi card, shuttersnitch and a battery powered router it has become a regular part of my workflow. Sure there have been frustrations along the way, not least the ease with which I seem to lose the...
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...
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...
