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The trick with the first shot

Whenever I start a shoot I always take a "test" shot. I tell the client this is a test of my lighting, but what it actually does is let me quietly examine their facial structure before continuing with the shoot.

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Have you ever wondered about making a video from all your photographs the hard way?

Have you ever wondered what happens if you take all the photographs you have made of a particular model and play them back at 30 frames per second?

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About Spot Metering (video)

A short YouTube photography tip

Facial Analysis in Fine Art Portraiture

There's a really good article (albeit a little old fashioned) on PhotoCamel that is well worth a read for a good introduction in to the art of Facial Analysis.

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Feva, Dani and Me

This has always been one of my favourite images. I have it in the studio on a mega-large canvas print.

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Favourite Photoshop Plugins: Filters Unlimited from icnet

Part of an occasional series on Plugins that I use while in photoshopping (or strictly Corelling) images.

Experimental Shoots: Panoramas, Spheres and Stitching

You are probably familiar with the idea of stitching multiple photographs together to make a panoramic image.

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Agyness Deyn doing some posing

Some terrific posing work here, I particular like the scene early on where she's pulling the lighting assistants and lighting rig around, looks very strong.

Canon 5D Mk II = Making Video

Sorry, I'm not going to show you how... I just wanted to comment on the many videos that are now turning up on the web using the 5D as the video camera and some of them are just brilliant.

Posing Girls - the 8 step method

In just 8 steps you can pose any woman

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100 Do's and Don'ts for Studios

How a $5 prop can create great images

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