Sunset is my favourite time to shoot, not just because of the “magic hour” light you get, but because it’s the time adding flash to an image can change it the most. You can take a photo of your subject under what looks to the naked eye to be pretty dull conditions and then flip the camera around and show them something on the rear screen that they can’t believe hasn’t spent hours in Photoshop. It’s all...

If you have followed my on Facebook or Twitter, or been a read of this blog for a while, you’ll have seen Jen before. Last week we finally got the chance to work together properly on a Hollywood glamour-themed shoot in a local cinema. Once I had the location arranged it was obvious a mix Film Noir and classic Hollywood glamour was the way to go so I started researching. Google Images came up with the classic portraits of Dietrich and...

Ultimate Street Car is one of the biggest weekenders on the modified car show scene and title sponsor, Marangoni Tyres had the busiest stand at the show. And on their stand they had Jen and Sarah who you may have seen on the blog before along with Torrs. I’d spoken with Sarah in the week leading up to the show and arranged to make a few pictures, but I have learnt that you can’t plan too much at shows like this. It’s a...

  Is it just me, or is everyone a photographer these days? I don’t mean everyone has a camera or that photography is a popular hobby, I mean I’m seeing more and more people proclaiming to be a bone fide, card carrying professional photographer. They have a large black camera, the kit lens and maybe a flash, a web site and business cards but seemingly no idea about the craft of photography. Perhaps you don’t need to...