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Flash Exposure Compensation
A few weeks back I wrote a blog post about exposure compensation. If you missed it it’s well worth checking out before continuing with this post. It’s very easy to confuse exposure compensation with flash exposure compensation ...
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August Photo Competition ~ The Result
The theme for the August photo competition was “Beach and Sea”. If you’re a regular blog reader, you’ll be aware that it’s been some time since I ran one of these and this time I only gave you just under two weeks instead of th...
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How fast is Photoshop?
Over the next few weeks I’ll be posting some tips on how to squeeze more speed from your computer to make Photoshop run faster. Of course you may not be aware that your computer could run faster or even what the benefits are. I...
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Exposure Compensation ~ Basics
In my book there are two fundamentals to what makes a photo good or bad and they are proper focus and a perfect exposure. Get either of these things wrong and you’re fighting an up hill battle from the off. In this post I’ll lo...
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How fast is your memory card?
The other day whilst I was running a lighting training session one of my students filled up his memory card. Fortunately he’d packed an older spare card so we swapped to that and carried on shooting. So what’s so unusual about ...
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August Photo Challenge
I know, I know! It’s far too long since the last photo challenge and my inbox has been filling up with question like, “What’s the topic for the next photo challenge?” and “When will the next photo challenge be starting?” Well t...
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Olympic Park Photos
The Olympic and Para Olympic games of 2012 have finally begun in London this week and I’ve been lucky enough to be part of it, all be it in a very small way. I’ve been working in the Pro Photo Centre answering questions and off...
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Skyline Lightroom 4 presets ~ Review
When it comes to editing my photos, I love anything that can speed up the process whilst at the same time maintain the quality I’m looking for. That’s why I love creating actions in Photoshop. In Lightroom the processes of auto...
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Take & Make ~ Episode 2
If it’s not the most asked photography question I get, it’s pretty close to the top. So when I was drawing up the initial list of videos I wanted to shoot for Adorama, “How to shoot a decent panorama” was a must. In this video ...
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Olympic torch photos
With 10 day left before the Olympics kicks off here in the UK, the news is full of stories about the games, both positive and negative. So far I’ve not really got into the whole Olympic hype thing but today I had a small taste ...
