Photography

I am often asked why I shoot Nikon kit and I thought that it could make for a useful blog post. In my eyes, there are a few reasons, some are purely down to personal preference and luck, whereas the others are practical. In the beginning, I had no idea as to which brand I [...]

In this glorious digital age, when memory cards have never been so cheap, we’re able to do exactly that. Keep shooting until you’ve nailed it. The temptation may be to fire off a shot and move on, but believe me, your success rate will go up astronomically if you take your time and make sure you get it right.

Whilst I’m finishing off part two of my Street Photography series, I thought I’d leave you with a beautiful Tuscan sunset!

I received an interesting email today from one of my blog subscribers, relating to her being too shy to try her hand at street photography. Taking photographs on the street can yield some very satisfying results. If you look around you, you’ll see small stories happening all around you

This shot was taken during a studio session with Loredana and is one I fell in love with the instant I released the shutter.

Here in Germany we’re lucky enough to be enjoying some glorious weather at the moment. What’s made it especially nice, was the Bank Holiday we had today, thereby having the chance to chill out for one day longer. This caused me a small amount of guilt, as it left me with no time to do [...]

So I then started to shoot, slowly moving around this majestic creature as it lay in the shallow water. After firing off twenty or thirty ‘throw-away’ shots to get me settled down, I started to notice the details. To really see.

As I took in the chain around the neck and leg, then the metal spike-tipped stick on the bank, it occurred to me that this noble beast, no matter how well looked after, was still a prisoner.

For today’s blog, I wanted to give you some stuff that I have found to be inspiring, instructional, or even, both. The first is a video that appeared on Scott Kelby’s blog (Photoshop Insider), by a photographer called Zach Arias. Apart from being a cool video, the message behind it is something that most photographers face [...]

It would be interesting and useful for me to know what the majority of you are using to edit your photographs and whether you’re shooting RAW or JPG. I primarily use Apple’s Aperture 3 for my cataloguing, RAW processing, slide shows and book creation, although will occasionally duck out into Adobe Photoshop Lightroom as it does perform [...]