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Limited Color Palette Portraits
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March 4, 2018
Colour can really make an image pop and catch the eye and that’s something I wanted to experiment with in my small home studio. Using some colour themed props can help give the photo’s a high fashion feel and also gives your model something to use in poses. Make up can play an important part in creating th...
Wall of sound background
Friday Freebie
January 12, 2018
Recently I needed a wall of speakers in my studio to make an amazing background for an upcoming music shoot. But after a bit of thought I realised there were three major problems with the idea. First, my studio space is a lot smaller then my imagination. Second, I don’t have easy access to the [&hell...
Faded Circus 2017 Workshop – Wrap Up
Articles
September 9, 2017
Our big summer workshop is becoming something of an annual event. This years theme was “The Faded Circus” which we held at Square One Studio in Surrey on two dates in July and August. Steve, the studio owner, allowed us to take over both his studio areas and even gave us rare access to his [&he...
Dramatic lighting with just two speedlights
Articles
July 24, 2017
So you only have two bare speedlights and you want to shoot some creative portraits. That’s the challenge I faced recently after discussing how a fellow photographer could get started in portrait photography without spending too much on new equipment. Don’t get me wrong, bare speedlights will obviously lim...
Music and Magic Workshop – Wrap Up
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June 24, 2017
Music and magic may not sound like two photo subjects which fit seamlessly together but a few weeks back they joined harmoniously on my Music and Magic workshop. Based at the excellent Square 1 Studios, our subjects for the day were magician Anton Binder and grime artist IF-E, both of whom I’ve worked with...
Getting Creative With Colored Gels
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December 30, 2016
Coloured gels are one of the “must have” light modifiers in my studio. They don’t adjust the shape of the light but they modify it’s colour and with a bit of know how you can get some amazingly colourful effects. The gels I usually attach to my lights are always the heat resistant type, flashes...
Vintage Bookshelf – Friday Freebie
Friday Freebie
May 27, 2016
Recently I did a shoot which required a background made up of vintage books (video coming soon) and as luck would have it, I found 40 old books at a local boot sale for a bargain price. The books looked brilliant in the shoot but at the end of it I was left with […]
Low Key Lighting
Videos
April 29, 2016
If you have a small or portable studio set up then low key portraits should be high on your list of “must have” lighting skills. Why? Apart from looking amazing, great low key lighting can be achieved with simple equipment against any dark background. As the video above demonstrates, black back...
Review PiXAPRO CITI600 flash
Reviews
April 14, 2016
With 600ws of flash on tap and a massive 8700mAh built in battery to power it, the PiXAPRO CITI600 sounds like a very capable flash head on paper. Throw in the potential for HSS and TTL if you’re a Canon or Nikon user and that unit is starting to sound very promising. For the purposes […]
Creating shadows with D.I.Y. Gobos
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April 11, 2016
Placing an object in front of a light source will usually cast a shadow of some sort. In the studio, if the object is solid it’s known as a flag but if it’s full of gaps (or semi translucent) it’s called a GoBo and can be incredibly useful. The shadow cast by a GoBo is […]
