Yearly Archives: 2009

No day is ever the same…

One big thing I love about what I do is the variety; no day and no photo shoot is ever the same and lately this has certainly been the case. This past week has seen me photographing a woman in her wedding dress in the freezing cold River Thames to photographing a woman in a...

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Another day at the office …

As a general rule November in the UK is not usually the time that you’d consider getting outside and into the water…let alone The River Thames. Well, I guess ‘rules’ are made to be broken cos that’s exactly what happened last week when Michelle & Dave Caton-Richards decided they wanted a ‘trash the dress’ style...

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Photoshop Tutorial-Extending the background of a photograph

At the first of our new InSight Workshop’s I mentioned to the attendees that to create the kind of photos where the subject/model is on a plain black background and positioned to the left or right I don’t actually photograph it that way. To get the desired look I actually extend the background in photoshop,...

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InSight Photography Workshop - Test Phase

During the first quarter of 2010 I plan to launch a new Photography/Lighting Workshop that I’m calling the ‘InSight - From Concept to Print’. This one day course will be designed to teach how to take an ‘idea’, light it, photograph it and then finally edit & prepare it ready for print. The content is...

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Desperate times call for desperate measures…

Being someone who prefers to photograph in the great outdoors can be somewhat tricky at times when you have to depend on the Great British Weather to play ball. Well, this past weekend I was down in deepest Surrey to photograph my brother in law, Bill and his family but Mr Rain & his close...

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