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How To: Photograph Pets with Holiday Lights
It's getting to that time of year again when the festive season is starting to build up. Do you know what that means?! It's time to photograph...
September Challenge Review: Human
It's October which means that it is CHALLENGE REVIEW TIME basically Christmas! No, I joke, it's challenge review time! Let's go allocate those Pins...
How to edit masks in Photoshop
Kinda going backward slightly to cover this topic because it is SO important and I see it genuinely all of the time - editing masks that you've...
The Studio Build: Episode 7
Last time on The Build, we hit disaster after disaster as we ran through the final steps, fitting the doors and windows, heating, plastering, and...
August Challenge Review: Indoor
It's September (HOW?!) which means that it is CHALLENGE REVIEW TIME! Let's go allocate those Pins (if you're lost, check this page here) and...
The SpyderCube for perfect basics
If I told you there was a tiny tool that you could photograph to help you get perfect white balance, exposure and contrast in every shoot, what...
How to shoot boisterous dogs
Every week we get asked to show a dog that isn't a trained model on a session, the thing is, almost none of our shoots are with highly trained dogs,...
PERFECT colour every single time: Spyder Checkr
We talk about color and white balance ALL THE TIME and it's obvious why - colour, after focus, is the most likely thing photographers get wrong when...
How to avoid reflections in studio photography
To avoid reflections in studio photography from your off-camera flash, you have to first understand the angle of incidence and the angle of...
July Challenge Review: Edit Arthur
It's August which means that it is CHALLENGE REVIEW TIME! Let's go allocate those Pins (if you're lost, check this page here) and announce the next...
Animal Eye-AF test for Dog Photography
This has been a strange one to organise because anyone who knows me knows that I NEVER shoot on a wide area mode with animal eye-AF to photograph...
How to export photos from Photoshop
Exporting from Photoshop is a minefield and almost everyone has had banding, blurry bits, overly horrendous compression and weird colour shifts....
How to remove ropes and lines quickly in Photoshop
Imagine this: You're faced with a gallery of photographs that include horses wearing rope photo halters (there's a DIY way to make those here) and...
June Challenge Review: Warmth
It's July which means that 2022 is throttling past like there's no tomorrow. It also means that it is CHALLENGE REVIEW TIME! Let's go allocate those...
“Good” photos in 15 minutes?
You have 15 minutes, a dog and a location. What do you do? Where do you start? How do you start? This was the situation I was faced with when Dan...
VLOG: May to June 2022
By default, we're pretty private people - it's just how we work and how our families brought us up to be. Because of this, it's no wonder that most...
How to tone greens (because they suck)
Photographers have a lot of hate for the colour green and I kinda get it - today we're going to run through simple tips for how to tone green in...
How to: Perspex Lick Shots in Studio
Lick shots can be really fun for photographers and the dogs involved so today we're covering how to shoot the perspex-based Dog Photography Studio...
May Challenge Review: Self Portrait
It's June, and it's Jublee weekend here in the UK! That means that it is also CHALLENGE REVIEW TIME! Let's go allocate those Pins (if you're lost,...
How to make & fit an Equine Photo Halter
This month I photographed more horses than I had photo halters for, so I had to improvise. I found that it's super easy to DIY thses so I thought...
How to move things in Photoshop
In the April Monthly Challenge Review video, an image of the absolutely adorable Guess was seen and I commented that it would be much more seamless...
How to remove banding in Photoshop (+ Action)
This weeks video is on a problem I see almost every day, and certainly every time I ever judge or critique images: Banding. We're going to look at...
April Challenge Review: Leading Lines
It's MAY! That means that it is CHALLENGE REVIEW TIME! Let's go allocate those Pins (if you're lost, check this page here) and announce the next...
Portrait Photography Basics – Composition
The most important thing about photography, in my opinion, is composition. If you don't have good composition, then, well, your photos just don't...
Introducing Five Minute Fridays
Writing this is going to be tricky for me. This has all come about since I wrote an article inside the April 2022 volume of TogTalk for the MTog's...
March Challenge Review: Panorama
It's April which means that it is CHALLENGE REVIEW TIME! Let's go allocate those Pins (if you're lost, check this page here) and announce the next...
How to do Dodge & Burn (Contouring)
LONG overdue this one - Today we're going to look at a method that I've used for a few years to dodge and burn using a non-destructive layered...
What is Depth of Field & how to alter it
Depth of Field is a really important beginner's topic in the theory of Photography because it impacts so much of an image, from the subject to the...
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