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I’ve shot hundreds, probably thousands, of instruction and illustration shoots over the years. Mostly these have been in the areas of fitness and golf, but I’ve sometimes found

A set of grids is a versatile tool to have in your lighting kit, as they allow you to control very precisely where light falls. This means you

It’s taken me longer than I’d hoped, but my lighting course is now live on Teachable.  If you’re so excited, you can’t wait to get stuck in, the

I gave a talk on behalf of Nikon to the Army’s photographers last April, on the subject of “Creative headshots under pressure”.  I’m not going to reproduce the

It’s the gift that keeps on giving!  Months ago, Neil at the Nikon school asked me to give a talk at their stage during the Photography show, and

Yesterday I talked about the overall ideas behind how we shot the “Moment of Impact” campaign, and as promised, today I’d like to go into more detail about

In September I shot a campaign for Nikon using its new D500 camera, in which the brief was to demonstrate how fast, powerful and robust it was. We

I’ve never been the world’s biggest fan of TTL flash, and as recently as a couple of weeks ago I was pointing out that despite the fact that

When it was first announced, I thought the Profoto B1 was a bit of a gimmick – why on earth would you want TTL in a monobloc?  If

I don’t often talk technical on this blog, but just the other day it occurred to me that some very essential bits of professional kit get overlooked, simply