I’m running a workshop about “Movement in photography” on 4th Sep at the RPS in Bath. You can book online here. If it’s too close to the date to book online you can call them on +44 (0)1225 325733 and book by phone. One of the things we are going to be covering on the day […]
I wanted to do some close-up garden photography today but it was too windy. Even trying my fancy cleft stick plant stabiliser didn’t work well enough, so I picked a flower from the garden and popped into the studio. I used a very high tech system, masking tape, to fix the flower to a light […]
Smoke’s a great thing to photograph, and getting interesting shapes against a black background is quite easy to do. I set my camera up on a tripod and put an incense stick into some Blu-Tack on a table in front of the camera. I put some black paper in the background, and put my flash […]
It’s fascinating just how simple it is to get a different “look” in your portrait photography just by changing the lighting and adding a prop or two. Take a look at these images from a recent location shoot. In this first image I used a single off-camera flash that was pointed up into a corner […]
Close-up (or macro) photography is great fun, but when working very close to your subject it’s often hard to get everything in focus. You lose what’s called “depth of field”. You can increase the depth of field by making the lens aperture smaller (stopping down), but that doesn’t always give you enough that’s properly in […]
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