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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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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