One aspect of photography that I love is the sheer diversity of styles and techniques out there, including landscape, macro, portrait, flash, wedding and architectural photography, amongst many, many others. This means that there’s always a wealth of inspiration waiting to be uncovered, and thanks to the Internet we can all be inspired via a simple click. Here are some photographers whose work... Read More

Or, “How to Mangle Your Head By Reading Too Many Articles” Last week I treated myself to the rather saucy Sigma 50mm 1.4 lens, as well as a Nissin Di622 flash unit. Being the control freak that I am, I wanted to ensure that I was attaining correct exposure using the flash unit, so I’ve probably read about 50 articles over the last few days dealing with mixing ambient light with flash. Now... Read More

I’m not ashamed to say I’ve become a bit of a WordPress fanboy in recent weeks. Since deciding to take the plunge a while back, updating this site has been so much easier – the creation of an average blog post used to take me around 30 minutes (edit raw html, resize and upload images, manually update the Google sitemap XML file, edit and upload the RSS feed, bang head repeatedly against... Read More

My good friend Paul Healey came over this week for a couple of days, and brought with him his shiny new Canon 7D and Sigma 150-500mm lens. The 7D is a fantastic piece of kit – continuous shooting sounds like someone letting rip with a snub-nosed Uzi, but it was the lens I found particularly impressive. The Beast Paul’s an excellent motorsport photographer (the above lens is his weapon of... Read More

Something a little different from me today – my Interfit EX150 MkII studio lights have been a little neglected of late, so I decided to dust them off and try some still-life photography: Cello  Read More