Good portrait lighting is as much about lighting the back of your subject, or what's being it, as the front. In most cases it's obviously important that your subject is lit so that you can see who it …
Somewhere Up There, Watching the Shard Climbers
While the iPhone lacks an 800mm zoom lens to capture the vertigo inducing action of the Greenpeace climbers going up the Shard today, it is more than capable of capturing the unusual site of lunchtime …
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Behind the Scenes at a Portrait Photography Workshop in East London
The summer solstice brought us the longest possible day of cloud that the fabulous British weather could muster, plus a few showers, to notify us that we had reached mid-summer here in London. Models, …
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Strobist Technique for Rim Light
One light is good, but two are better. Here's a strobist technique for using off camera flash to create rim light. Using a second off camera flash to create a rim light is a technique which …
Buy the Canon 100D if you want a Small ‘Proper’ Camera
DSLRs are what you might call 'proper' cameras because you get easy access to all of their controls which makes them quick and easy to use. They also have the widest range of lenses and other …
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Same Scene, Lit Three Ways
In certain fancy restaurants you see things on the menu such as 'Organic Rare Breed Worcester Old Spot Pig Three Ways'. On the plate you'll get that unusual pig turned into a flavoursome sausage, it's …