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Techniques & How To - All posts in this category:
A collection of all the technique, tips and tricks blog posts I have written over the years, including tech help, how to’s, camera equipment and tech reviews and opinions, as well as photography RAW workflow, backup and storage tips as well as general photography help and learning tutorials.
Portraits: A favourite portrait & a fantastic moustache to be proud of!
A recent portrait photography session in Norwich this week – featuring the famous beard of Mark Scott, a great fun photoshoot with an excellent guy. Definitely a couple of photographs I’m pretty happy with! Gotta love that tache.
For the lighting nerds – 4 lights used here on black seamless. Elinchrom head shooting through a [...]
Review – Vanguard Skyborne 51 Laptop & Camera Backpack
Gear bags – my arch nemesis. I can never find the right bag to carry my photography kit around with me, and I feel I’ve tried a million bags so far and nothing ever is quite right. I’ll be honest, the majority of bags I have used in the past have been LowePro bags, great [...]
The distinctive yellow stained walls of Hội An – Vietnam photos
The day bus from Hội An was an interesting (read: white knuckle) experience, Vietnamese driving is a little scary to say the least, but fortunately we arrived in one piece. As mentioned in our other travel blog, it’s kind of like walking into a film set, somewhat fake but charming at the same time. Some [...]
Examples of Rights Managed (RM) photography pricing & costs, same image, different usage.
In my last article, Why do Royalty Free (RF) images look like a bargain and why do Rights Managed (RM) images seem much more expensive? What is the difference? I summarised that using RF images could compromise your brand identity if used incorrectly and that RM licensing provided the better, all-round favourable and better value [...]
Why do Royalty Free (RF) images look like a bargain, and why do Rights Managed (RM) images seem much more expensive? What is the difference?
For the designer, buying a load of cheap $1 RF images seems like a total bargain, unlimited use, now and in the future, for any project, brief, assignment that needs imagery. Could using RF be compromising your brand identity?
You’ve seen it everywhere, iStock, Shutterstock et al, all offering Royalty Free (RF) photographs at incredibly low [...]
Blogging with wordpress on the iPad – Is it really worth it? | Review
A review of writing blog posts and blogging with the wordpress on the iPad. Problems and annoyances with and without the app. This is the same app as the Wordpress for iPhone, as far as I am aware there are no more features in the iPad version than the iPhone version.
I love my iPad, I [...]
10 tips & things to remember before packing your travel photography kit bag.
10 tips & things to remember before packing your travel photography kit bag.
1 . Don’t try and save costs buying a cheaper bag to protect your several thousand dollars worth of equipment, invest in decent bag such as this low pro bag, which will probably last you a lifetime. Get a bag with multiple compartments, [...]
A look inside my travel photography kit bag
Sitting on my veranda in Rhodes again this morning escaping the sun for a few hours, picked up a little too much yesterday. Thinking about our forthcoming trip to the South Pacific got me fired up about what to pack, as I spend a lot of time these days wondering what I need to take [...]
Using TinEye to check if your images have been used online – I found one!
A great result from TinEye reverse image search today, a recommendation to anyone who may have images online that they want to try and keep track of, especially if they are not watermarked.
A little about TinEye: “TinEye is a reverse image search engine. TinEye is a reverse image search engine. It finds out where an [...]
How to move your Wordpress blog to a new domain without losing traffic
How to move your Wordpress blog to a new domain without losing traffic the proper way, a summary of information and process used to move it across in a way that actually works, in an SEO friendly way. So with this solution you shouldn’t notice any loss of traffic, I noticed my traffic straight away [...]
Kit review: Great camera bag for photographers – Lowepro Vertex AW 100
I needed a new photography camera bag a couple of months back, and ended up doing so much research and hands on testing trying to find one that suited my needs I thought I might share my findings, so that perhaps you can make your decision easier..
I have had Lowepro bags in the past, and [...]
Tech: How to format a 1Tb drive to FAT32 on Windows 7 for use on PC & Mac
A very techy article for my blog but I needed to share after much research and scratching my head… Tech: How to format a 1Tb drive to FAT32 on Windows 7 for use on PC & Mac. | Windows 7 format fat32
Background: I run my photography Lightoom 2 catalogue from an external WD Passport 500GB [...]
A few of my photographs showing movement in Hong Kong
Just a quick post of some of my favourite ‘movement’ photographs of Hong Kong. In such a fast moving city like this, it seemed the right thing to do to try and show movement within some of my images. This is just a few select photos from my full album that can be found [...]
Blue hour photography at the Exotic Garden
My good friend Will and I were chatting last week about talking photo’s in the dark, with selective flash on certain areas of his exotic garden, and we decided we’d give it a go this evening. So using a tripod, a shutter speed of about 10 or 15 seconds, at roughly f/8 or f/11… and [...]
Tethered shooting with Lightroom and Canon 40D – How To
Canon tethered to Lightroom tutorial.
Having not used a tethered setup in a while as I usually work on location, I had to double check everything was working correctly for an upcoming project. I thought I would compile my thoughts into a ‘How-To’ for other people who might have problems setting up tethering.
How to shoot tethered [...]
