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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 know rather than how good you are. No matter how great the work you are producing is, you need to...
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 photography, they gave us 5 pieces of advice which we’ll share over the coming weeks. Here’s the...
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 where you can actually put your pictures for anyone to look at. Whatever next. As a photographer you may decide...
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 is this: A jpeg is basically a snapshot – a ready to go image that can be viewed on a computer...
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 time. The standard first steps on the ladder to getting paid to shoot a wedding are to photograph a friend’s wedding and to work as a...
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 skills, relationship building, lighting knowledge and sometimes retouching. Given that you’ll most likely be working with one subject in one location...
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 full of enthusiasm for photography. After lunch we started working on off camera flash photography, shooting in our favourite urban location. At...
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 are good enough to capture every imperfection; so we think it’s worth spending a couple of minutes...
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 and find interesting subjects to photograph. Someone will actually have the subjects in mind, and all you have to...