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July Challenge: Foreground Interest
You made this next to impossible. Let me just start there. The transformation in some of you guys has been MEGA and I struggled to get it down to my...
What are stops of light in photography?
I've been meaning to cover off what stops of light are in photography and how you can use your stops knowledge to help you out, but other things...
How to photograph dogs on leads for easy editing
I'm not going to write a huge post on this one because it's kind of all in the video! Essentially, today we cover how to work with a client whose...
Quick Photoshop Tip: Colour Curves
I've been doing one adjustment a lot recently and I think it would be super useful to share it with you all - Colour Curves - It's a simple...
How to photograph a dog on a black background (Studio)
Probably the hardest of the studio photography setups to nail, photographing black backgrounds well and specifically black dogs on a black...
Portrait Photography Award!
Something weird happened yesterday. The video of the Forest behind the scenes went out on YouTube at around 12 noon and had awesome feedback (thank...
Shoot Behind the Scenes: The Forest
Today's adventure is to look at how to select awesome scenes in a location takes us to North Yorkshire, right inside the beautiful Cropton Forest,...
How to find your photographic style
Finding your photographic style is an enormous topic, but you asked me for help with it time and time again so I had to cover it. Honestly, it's a...
The A-List of Pet Photography Styles
Tying straight back to our Style Interviews - the 40-minute info-packed webinar-Esque masterclass - I thought it may be useful to show you all some...
Quick Lightroom White Balance Trick!
So many people are struggling with white balance and colour casts on their images, and to be honest, it's a far bigger issue than I originally...
Kit Review: Topaz DeNoise AI Review
Link to the product: Topaz Labs DeNoise AI I'd just like to start this with a confession. I, probably like you, had seen these social ads by Topaz...
How To: Set up a dog photography studio in a small space
This week we covered how to set up a dog photography studio in a small space. The small space was my teeny tiny living room and we had a floor area...
How To: Shoot a stunning dog portrait outdoors
This dog photography portrait how-to was an exciting one to do for me because it was the first time I’d shot video on the new Sony A7RIII and,...
Remove a lead in Photoshop (Complex!)
A member of our Facebook group had an image she liked but there was a lead extending over the dog and across out of the shot. She asked if we could...
10 Tips for Dog Photography Greatness
If you're wanting to up your game when it comes to dog photography, there's very little extra that you need to know over and above going through...
Sharpen a photo in Photoshop
Wondering how to add an extra sharpen to a photo in Photoshop? Well, look no further. This post includes my two core sharpening methods, one "true"...
8x Full Photograph Edits – The Video List
Tricks for Dog Photography
This is an archive of tricks for dog photography which is updated as and when new videos are produced. We have some core tricks we like to teach our...
The Exposure Triangle
Guys, I'm not even going to try and explain the exposure triangle in written words. It'll end up as a huge complicated mess! Therefore - here's a...
Shoot behind the scenes – Studio!
If you've wondered what goes on at a studio shoot, in a shed, at the end of a named storm in the UK, look no further. Please note, this shoot was a...
Editing Basics – The Terrier Edit Series
In this post you'll find a set of super short, easy to digest tutorial videos which work one image from start to finish in the most simple yet...
Corneal Flash Burn
Some of you may have noticed that I was unusually quiet at the end of last week. Well, the truth is that I couldn't actually see - I couldn't open...
How To: Dog Photography with a Speedlight
Prepare yourselves guys and buckle up, this one's a biggy! One of the most asked questions & the 2nd most popular 121 subject (behind action...
How To: Indoor Dog Photography with Natural Light
Yes, you too can rock your indoor dog photography shots... ...even if you live in a dark cavernous house, like we have here. Easy peasy - 1...
Setting up the Sharpen Eyes brush in Lightroom
By popular demand, the video below demonstrates how to create and save the preset for our constantly-used Sharpen Eyes brush in Lightroom. We...
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