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My top 5 tips for taking great portrait shots.
Of all the genres of photography I work in, for me portraiture is the most challenging and most rewarding. Portraiture is incredibly personal, and there’s so much more to taking a good portrait than just taking a snapshot of an individual. To me it’s not just about capturing a likeness of a person on film, [...]
My top 5 tips for taking great portrait shots.
Of all the genres of photography I work in, for me portraiture is the most challenging and most rewarding.
Portraiture is incredibly personal, and there's so much more to taking a good portrait than just taking a snapshot of an individual. To me it's not just about capturing a likeness of...
Read More Airbrushing images – a useful tool or a step too far?
There's been a lot in the press about this recently, so it's a topical subject to write a blog post about. We see it on just about every fashion magazine cover in the high street these days, and nobody is safe from it. Tennis star Andy Roddick had his biceps...
Read More Back to basics – the 50mm standard lens.
It's been months now since I ditched my zoom lenses in favour of primes. It took a little getting used to as I admit zoom lenses are convenient, but I've never looked back.
My two favourite lenses are my 50mm f1.4 and my 135mm f1.8. These two are used for over...
Read More How we photographed Matfen Hall
Everything looks pretty in the snow, and we often find that we're quite busy photographing when the white stuff arrives! Just before Christmas we photographed Seaham Hall when the first snow of the winter fell - you can read about how we did that by clicking here.
Northumberland was treated to...
Read More An English Country Garden
We're keeping with the theme of gardening with this post. We were asked to capture images of a garden and present the shots to the garden owners as a gift for their Golden Wedding Anniversary.
Any couple who've been married for this long deserve something a little special, so to reflect...
Read More A celebration of Spring – free desktop wallpaper
We're well into Spring now, this week in particular is turning out to be a blinder. Let's hope the Summer turns out for once to be all that we wish for.
To celebrate Spring arriving in such style I've decided to give away nine of my Spring images for free to...
Read More Behind the scenes of the Boudoir
We had the pleasure of the company of photographer and writer Katherine Wildman at our last boudoir photoshoot. You can read about her unique perspective of the day on her blog.
She begins:
"Standing by the window of the beautiful Seaham Hall on Wednesday morning tucking a length of matte black chiffon...
Read More Close but no cigar! 2nd place for elmphoto in WEX competition.
Everyone likes to win, but second place isn't that bad is it?
We've just found out that we came second in the Warehouse Express photography competition. It's bitter sweet to us - we're delighted to have done so well but came oh-so-close to the top spot. Next time maybe! The image...
Read More Why we shouldn’t forget about film just yet!
I can hear you all sigh reading this title. Here comes another 'film vs digital' debate, but that's not really what this post is about. Not all of it anyway.
We've probably seen the biggest single advance in photography in recent years with the relatively low cost availability of good quality...
Read More The problem with Photoshop . . .
I learnt my photography the old fashioned way. I remember evenings spent in dark rooms under an orange glow from the safelight, with toxic chemicals, papers, a 30 year old Durst enlarger, developing tanks, trays and numerous prints hanging from makeshift washing lines slowly drying.
I reminisce quite fondly about those...
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