When it comes to comparing the two biggest digital SLR camera brands, Nikon and Canon, it is almost impossible to separate them in terms of camera quality. We're often asked to recommend one over the …
Strobist Technique – Background Light
One of the advantages of using flash when shooting on location is that they are small and portable, yet powerful enough to light a good portrait. Being small and portable means we can take them to …
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Lighting Technique – Accent Light
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 …