Where are the best places to take photos in London? Here is our selection of 3 places in London to go with your camera and take photos. What could be better. The City of London on a Sunday Take …
5 Tips on Creating a Successful Photography Business
Whether it’s ditching the day job to live the dream of being a full time professional photographer, or just making some money on the side to buy some extra kit many people dream of earning an income …
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Breaking the rules in the studio
Usually, working in the studio is about control. You're controlling the power of lights, fine tuning their position, composing the shot, directing the model. Your final image is all about your subject …
How to take photos of buildings
Take a stroll around a city with the size and history of London and you'll be struck by the variety, size and density of the buildings you can take photos of. If you set out to photograph these …
Advanced Photography Courses
Advanced Photography Courses at 36exp are all about helping you take the step from committed enthusiast to photography professional. On our advanced photography courses you will learn about the …
Intermediate Photography Courses
These Intermediate Photography Courses are designed to give you specific skills in the specialised areas of photography that you are interested in. In addition to learning new techniques on these …
Beginner Photography Courses
If you are just setting off on your photography journey, beginner photography courses at the 36exp Photographers' School are designed to give you a thorough understanding of how to use your camera to …
How many people see your photos?
How many people see your photos? Here's the second in our series of articles on progressing as a photographer, it's all about being seen. Being successful in most things can be more about who you …
Progress as a Photographer Part 1 of 5 – Develop a Style and Specialisation
If one of your aspirations is to progress as a photographer and make some or all of your income from photography, you'll need a plan to make that happen. We spoke to bunch of people who work in …
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Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) for Photographers
By Andrew Mason. Producing amazing images but having no one look at them is a tragedy that no one should endure. Saving you from such a devastating experience is this new thing called the internet …
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Raw vs Jpeg – One Major Advantage of Raw Files
by Andrew Mason We often get asked about the differences between jpeg and raw. Why should you choose one over the other? Our very simple explanation of the difference between the two formats …
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How to progress as a wedding photographer – 5 pieces of advice
Many photographers think about becoming a wedding photographer at one point or another. For some it becomes an extremely rewarding and potentially lucrative photographic career, either full or part …
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Three Ideas for More Creative Portraits
by Andrew Mason. Portrait photography is a fair bit more than asking your subject to say cheese and bouncing a little sunlight into your model's face. It's a set of skills that encompasses camera …
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Off Camera Flash Photography
by Andrew Mason Last Saturday saw our Flash Photography Workshop take place in and around Borough. Amita Sethi arrived from Cyprus with a relatively new camera and a very large newly found suitcase …
Lightroom Technique for Subtle Skin Retouching
Most of us don't live in a world where our subjects are perfectly made up and fed on a diet of wheatgrass and alpine mineral water to cultivate perfect skin. We do though have cameras and lenses which …
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12 reasons why a top photographer has the easiest job in the world
12 reasons why a top photographer has the easiest job in the world. 1 You have endlessly interesting subjects to photograph. Once you've made it to the top, you can forget about having to think up …
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Flash – Nikon vs Canon
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 …
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 …
The Woman in the Red Beret
An image here by Adrian Gallop taken on our Creative and Street Photography Workshop. There is a lot to like about this photo. Firstly, notice the contrast in texture, colour, vibrancy and …
Lighting a Black Studio Background to Give it Some Colour
This sounds counter-intuitive, but you can light a black background and give it some colour. Here’s an example by John Jennings taken on our Studio Lighting Workshop. You might not believe it, …
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Street Photography – from London to Vietnam
Matt Whitbourne attended the 36exp Creative & Street Photography Workshop in October, and then applied some of what he learned during a trip to Vietnam. One of Matt's images is shared here, and …
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A 36exp Wedding
The first ever 36exp Wedding Photography Workshop took place on Monday 25th February. It should have been obvious, but organising a Wedding Photography Workshop, is basically the same as organising a …
Press Release from 36exp Photography Ltd Regarding Horse Meat in our Courses
Earlier this week, 36exp became aware of a allegations that some of our courses contain horse meat. As a result we undertook rigorous scientific testing of our entire product range and are pleased to …
Two Photography Workshops, Two Different Portraits
Mike Varey came along to two of our workshops in December - the Flash Photography Workshop and the Portrait Photography Workshop. It's a good combination of courses if you want to get a well …
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Photography Course in SE1
Sabina Brown created these fantastic images on the 36exp Creative and Street Photography Course in SE1. Under the guidance of our tutor, this SE1 photography workshop takes to the streets …
Flash Photography Workshop Kit List
Here is the kit we recommend and use on the Flash Photography Workshop: …
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Street Photography Course
Take to the streets of London and really engage with your photography on this Street Photography Course. On the 36exp Street Photography Course you will spend the day shooting street photography …
One Day Studio Lighting Course
The 36exp one day studio lighting course happened again in early November. As usual we covered everything a photographer needs to know when working with studio lighting. One of our attendees used a …
Off Camera Flash Course
We teach about off camera flash on our Flash Photography Course in London. The images below were taken by Anita Staff on the course using off camera flash. You can check out more of Anita's work on …
London Bridge Fashion Photography Workshop
We moved inside for our October Location Fashion Photography Workshop to an old Victorian school-house near London Bridge. Being on the fourth floor, with large windows on both sides, it had great …
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