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So, last weekend I was lucky enough to be one of the ten participants in Calvin Hollywood’s ‘Calvinized’ workshop, delivered for the first time in English. I’ve long admired his work, so the opportunity to not only meet him, but to learn from and interact with him as part of such an intimate group was [...]

This is a very short tip, but one that I know I’ll find useful.   For those trying to select a dark model from a dark background – open your RAW as a Smart Object, then in your layers panel, right-click on the layer and choose ‘New Smart Object via Copy’. Double-click the icon of this [...]

Steve Jobs was a man who changed the way that many of us work and communicate, in an exciting way. He gave us an alternative, one that made you feel as though using a computer, smartphone, tablet or MP3 player could actually be a rewarding experience. He will be sorely missed. http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/

I read something last week that I felt was rather unfair, if not a bit of a blinkered view.   I read someone’s blog, who was saying, with no small amount of condescension, that someone who makes their living teaching photography is not a professional photographer, but I would counter that, by asking “does it [...]

This is yet another cool place to go, for not only a whole load of free (and subscription-only) tutorials, but also a great resource for Photoshop actions. You can take a look, here.

Business has been a little slow of late, but in all fairness, I have been doing something else; I’ve been creating training materials for a German company’s English language version of their site, FotoTV.com. Their German site, FotoTV.de, has been around for quite some time and has a wealth of material. Not content with catering [...]

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 [...]

This is something we did last year and it was a great success. Jeremy Cowart, an American photographer, launched the initiative and it went International. A true display of how the Internet can help to get the ball rolling! I think we had somewhere between 40 and 50 people turn up. Some as couples, some [...]

A really useful site for you to look at is MCP Actions. Here you can find all sorts of stuff to help improve your photography and Photoshop skills, most notably, a very impressive array of actions. For those who don’t know, actions are basically recordings of steps one can carry out in Photoshop to achieve [...]