Ready For Your Next Shoot? 10 Settings for Zero’ing Out Your Camera
Thursday, 1st April, posted in Articles, 9 comments.There’s a little ritual that I like to perform on my cameras after every shoot and I call it “zero’ing out the camera”. Put in other words I am setting a baseline or starting point for the next assignment. Let me teach it to you and tell you how I learned to do it.
Powerrrrr! The PixelHK Battery Pack TD-382
Sunday, 24th January, posted in Articles, 14 comments.I have been looking for external battery packs for my SB900′s for a while now and I think I have finally found a solution that is not only practical but a cost effective alternative to the Nikon SD9 Battery Pack.
Top Tips for Getting to Know Your Batteries
Thursday, 31st December, posted in Articles, 12 comments.I reckon that the way you can tell a professional photographer from an enthusiast is the way they organise their batteries. (Ok I kid). But I did get an email from a photographer a few weeks ago that turned into a conversation about batteries. How do you organise them so that whilst on a assignment you know which are needing recharged? and which are fully charged?
The Falconer and Owl Composite – Part 2
Thursday, 24th September, posted in Articles, 8 comments.Now that you know how I shot the assignment in The Falconer and Owl Composite – Part 1. Lets take an in-depth look at how the composite was created in Adobe Photoshop CS4.
The Falconer and Owl Composite – Part 1
Monday, 21st September, posted in Articles, 4 comments.Keeping in the spirit of last Thursdays screencast about making a Channel Mask I thought I would take things up a level and give you a step by step guide to how I created the Falconer and Owl composite starting with the photography, lighting and a behind the scenes video of the shoot.
4 Photo Sequence Canvas Print
Monday, 14th September, posted in Articles, 15 comments.My new Lastolite Ezybox softbox arrived in the post the other day and I took time out from finalizing the new website to take a few shots of my son Julian. The impromptu shoot only lasted a few minutes, but out of it I got some goofy shots that I decided would look great as canvas print. So in this article I will discuss both the photography and Lightroom 2 / Photoshop techniques I used to achieve a simple yet very effective sequence of images into a canvas print.
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