One of the advantages of using flash when shooting on location is that they are small and portable, yet powerful enough to light a good portrait. Being small and portable means we can take them to …
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Good portrait lighting is as much about lighting the back of your subject, or what's being it, as the front. In most cases it's obviously important that your subject is lit so that you can see who it …
While the iPhone lacks an 800mm zoom lens to capture the vertigo inducing action of the Greenpeace climbers going up the Shard today, it is more than capable of capturing the unusual site of lunchtime …
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After you buy a Nikon DSLR (this applies at least to the Nikon D600 and D800 bought from London Camera Exchange), Nikon UK sends you a list of vouchers with discounts on various accessories, e.g. Buy …
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The summer solstice brought us the longest possible day of cloud that the fabulous British weather could muster, plus a few showers, to notify us that we had reached mid-summer here in London. Models, …
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One light is good, but two are better. Here's a strobist technique for using off camera flash to create rim light. Using a second off camera flash to create a rim light is a technique which …
