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...
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...
As I’ve mentioned previously I’m in the process of moving out of Islington Mill, the new studio I’m using is in Stockport and called Hallam Mill, click here for a handy link to Google Streetview. It’s a great space of just under 4000 sq ft. It’s wonderful to shoot there using natural light, especially towards...
A couple of really interesting shoots so far this year, as well as a recent training event, have made me think a little more about what I am trying to do with my photography. In essence it’s about giving clients the very best images, but we need to look in more detail than that because...
