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The early 2000's were the years I was in high school. Straight after the milenium, I turned 13 and the world was a totally different place. Full of futuristic awe, disconnected from technology unless you were sat at an actual computer, on dial up internet. The nostaglia I have for those...
Rarely does anything directly camera related become the best purchase for studio photography. Usually your camera and lens are good enough regardless of what you’re shooting. Even a basic camera and kit lens can create incredible shots. And often we can use natural light too.
Getting the...
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3rd Party camera batteries always feel like such a great deal. An official branded battery is around £60. Getting 3 batteries for £20 just feels like a massive saving and a much better investment.
But it rarely is!
In a pinch they can sometimes help us out...
We all know what buyers remorse is right? You make a purchase and instantly get that weird, sinking, gut punch feeling, then overthink for 2 days.. No? Just me? Well, one very similar topic that never seems to get much attention is sellers' remorse. Maybe this is an actual thing, or maybe I just...
This is another gear post so buckle in for a backwards and forwards ride.
A few months ago I wanted to try a little project that required a macro lens. I didn’t want to pay the price for the Fuji 80mm macro, so I found a used Laowa 65mm 2.8 for a reasonable £350. Great little lens,...
I’ve had a couple of Godox Ad200s for a few years now and I have one with the Fresnel head attached and the other with the Godox H200R round head attached. My main reason for this is simply because they are just easier to gel. I have a couple of packs of Rouge flash gels and a couple of...
We’ve just had Black Friday deals popping up everywhere and I’ve been on a loose lookout for a new camera bag. I say loose because my old K&F concept backpack has been great for the past couple of years but is very limited in the amount of gear it can hold. (it can hold a decent...
I am definitely a huge gearhead when it comes to photography. It drives me crazy but I just love all the equipment, even if some of it I barely ever use.
There was a point in time when I wanted a tonne of lenses, both primes and zooms, to cover every possible situation I may shoot. But luckily I...
Back in the day (about 7 years ago), I shot a few weddings. After one wedding I decided to just buy a projector from Amazon so I could quickly blast through a few shots during the wedding breakfast and have them projected onto a wall for the evening. It was a decent idea so feel free to take...
Just before Christmas, I decided I wanted a new studio strobe. Scrolling eBay, I came across a Godox DP1000 iii for a decent price. The user selling stated it was new in box and unused so I bought it straight away. As it turns out, it was listed as a DP1000 iv (with the built-in modelling bulb,...
Last year, when the Viltrox 75mm 1.2 was announced, I saw a few people getting early release copies and raving about how great the image quality coming from the lens was, especially at the price point. In short, I ended up preording a copy and fell in love!
I already own the Viltrox 23mm 1.4 and...
I've been wanting to try an RGB gelled shoot for a while. RGB refers to the coloured gels I used. In light red green and blue mixed together (with the correct power levels) create neutral light. The plan was to have all 3 lights mix in a small area on the model's face and allow the gels to show...
Following on from my previous post last month, I have the live link for my Manual mode master Ebook up and running! This link will allow you to purchase my photography education, actions, books, and presets I create. I'm in the process of making the photography courses too which will allow...
Dec 03, 2023
I've been quite busy over the past few months, but somehow I've managed to find time to write a little E-book/online course type of thing.
I wanted to create a guide on how to help teach people Manual mode, with each section being quite thorough, but also pretty quick to read through.
I also...
Oct 18, 2023
I'm not someone who switches camera systems often. Let's face it, that would be a massively expensive hobby, and learning a completely new layout, let alone the need for lenses too would just be a constant stress.
However, I did briefly start looking at Sony bodies today. Namely the A1. Until I...
When I ran my workshop the other week, I wanted to tether but I had just ended my CaptureOne and decided to use Lightroom instead. If you’ve read that blog you’ll know it just straight up didn’t work. Today I gave myself some time to play around and see if I could sort the...
My most recent shoot started off as a quick idea I threw into midjourney to see what kind of inspiration it’d feedback to me. This was the prompt I used: studio portrait with candyfloss colour palette and upstage lighting. From that, I half expected a very pink-orientated studio portrait....
Some of you may have seen in a previous post that I had set up a little workshop on how to use gels in photography portraits. Well, last night was that day! And I'm pretty happy with how the whole thing ran!
I allocated an hour setup time, 3 hours workshop, with the first hour being alot...
Last week I had my favourite shoot I’ve ever done with the best model! This shoot had it all - adventure, tiredness, epic views, sheep, coffee, and a drive up a super steep “hill” that made my mouth water..
Our original plan was to meet in Snowdonia for an epic...
I've been asked quite often how I "do gels", and have been told by my local studio owner that he's had quite a few people asking him how to "do gels" also. After a little debating, this led me to start my own workshop and fufil these requests all in one go!
The local studio is quite...
I don’t consider myself an artist or even artistic. I see many other photographers' work and I’m just blown away at how creative their stuff is. I look at my own and the process I go through and I feel that I struggle in comparison! Some people seemingly pull ideas out of thin air...
The weekend just gone I got to shoot with a local model who used to be part of the Suicide girls team. She hadn't done any gel work before and was super keen to experiment with it!
Before our shoot, I had made a Pinterest board with literally just 5 ideas on (Usually I'd pin about 20), with the...
I’m jumping straight in here. I upgraded from a Fuji XH1 to an XH2 about 7 months ago now. What was the real cost?
I got the XH2 on release day so paid full price for the body at £1899. I didn’t have any CF express type b cards (to use both slots and make full use...
Time just vanishes when you're an adult doesn't it! It's already been a week since I travelled to Staffordshire to shoot at a new location called Basfordhurst cottage with the incredible @Kateymodel (her instagram tag). We've shot multiple times and for this shoot Katey had a Helmut Newton...
My previous post was about AI and this one is no different! In fact, I can see plenty of future posts will be too. Not to beat a dead horse, but constant updates on how it is going to affect things moving forward.
Previously I touched upon the thinking that augmented and VR would be big parts of...
AI is getting SMART! We used to think augmented reality, then VR and the metaverse was the future. Not anymore. A new version of Chat GPT has recently just launched and to say I’m blown away is an understatement. So much so I’m personally going to be investing more time and...
Halloween has just passed and for this year I wanted to do something a little different to the "douse a model in blood" type shoot. (I have already done one of those this year, but that's beside the point..). I just wanted something.. different. Not studio, not an abandoned house. Just...
These past few months have been insanely busy! I've been shooting so much in between work, and alot of them have required 8 or 9 hour round trips! The joys of being a distance from the people I want to work with!
Usually, I'm not the type to jump on gear hype and get the latest and greatest. Up...
We're halfway throught the year already somehow, which clearly means that it's a great time for reflection on the goals I made for this year. I'm not a new years resolution type person though. This was a goal I was determined to hit.
My goal(s) were simple. Learn to shoot gels and take some...
I'm definitely not a religious person but I absolutely love religious artwork. I have no idea why, but there's just a magic to them. With this in mind, I wanted to created some creative and dramatic gel photography inspired by it. The problem was how to go about it.Last year I shot a valentines...
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