Business of wedding photography
The business of wedding photography can be a long road to nowhere if you don’t start it off on the right track, thats why I decided to put on a wedding seminar at the Forbury Hotel in Reading with the help of Olympus UK and some of my favourite suppliers I use on a day to day basis. Read More…
Model Anna Zella Location London
My urban portraits with speedlights is one of my most popular workshops running, showing you how to create amazing shots on the busting streets of London with just 1 speedlight or even a video light and a little bit of imagination. Read More…
Olympus meet the team event
Olympus teamed up with Digital photo and Practical Photography magazines to give you the chance to meet the team. Attendees had the chance to take part in some good old photography with us running three mini workshops on portraits, street photography and still life photography. Read More…
Controlling The Light Workshop
When it comes to lighting and camera settings its as complicated as you make it! There is always a hard way to do something but like anyone else I like the easy way, so this is my approach to simple portraits and how to get an amazing look with minimal kit. Read More…
Boudoir at Forbury Hotel Reading
This was our first Boudoir photography workshop at the Forbury Hotel in Reading, and what an amazing place for such an intimate shoot, with the staff always making you feel welcome, and tea and coffee always to hand. Read More…
Danesfield House Hotel & Spa Marlow
It’s that time of year where we all need to practice new lighting techniques, and who better to show you some tricks than Brett Harkness at the amazing Danesfield House Hotel & Spa over at Marlow. Read More…
Speedlight for Wedding’s
Every photographer needs to go on training courses, that’s how we get to where we are today. For me progression is the most important part of my role along with providing my customers with the best images I can produce. Every year I book myself onto three courses to progress and master the art of photography in all aspects. This year I decided to concentrate on speed lights and lighting my subject on the go. Read More…
As the wedding season doesn’t really kick off until the beginning of March, I thought I’d organise myself with some new and stunning models for this years workshops. I set the scene as urban portraits to do test shoots on the streets of Reading in the slums of back alleys ,and using old shutter backdrops. Read More…
Use a manual or TTL triggering system like the pocket wizard FlexTT5 and the Mini TT1 to use any flash that has a manual or TTL capability control, this can save you thousands in expensive studio lighting and will greatly increase accuracy and control of light!
The trick is learning how to nail the right exposure with your flash within “one or two” clicks which can be learned with the right instructions.
The most accurate and most popular triggers amongst photographers are the Pocket Wizards and EL Skyport Speed
We all have those situations where we need to use content-aware fill (introduced in CS5) but the fill keeps pulling color/selection from a person, or a piece of the photo that we don’t want it to use. Well, it’s as simple as using a quick layer mask to tell content-aware fill what not to touch.
Watch this video for 3 minutes and you’ll save hours and hours down the road with quick fixes, whether it’s removing some garbage on the road or an overzealous church lady during a ceremony. This will help.