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 …
Shoot with Joe Giacomet
Discover the art of perfect location lighting, building a set and developing a concept to produce incredible location portraits with multi award winning advertising and fine art photographer Joe …
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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Portfolio Building Opportunity
We get a few calls a month looking for our students to work for free to 'develop their portfolio', usually we turn them down as the companies and products wouldn't enhance anyone's portfolio! But, we …
Wedding Photography Course in Central London
Our final wedding photography workshop of 2013 took place in late November. It provided another opportunity for attendees to learn from award winning wedding photographer Adam Riley. A bright, and …
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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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Nature Photography Course
Work with award winning wildlife, travel and landscape photographer Adriaan van Heerden on the 36exp Nature Photography Workshop at the London Wetland Centre. The Centre is a haven for wildlife right …
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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Money Off Nikon Lenses, Flashes and Grips
After you buy a Nikon DSLR (this applies at least to the Nikon D600 and D800 bought from London Camera Exchange), Nikon UK sends you a list of vouchers with discounts on various accessories, e.g. Buy …
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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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