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Taking Your First Steps With Product Photography
From the outside, product photography seems like fairly standard photographic practice. But I recently asked a friend who works for an e-commerce company...
Simon Bray
14 Oct 2013
Photo & Video
Load Your Canon with Presets and Nail Your Favorite Settings in Seconds
With the vast amount of options available to DSLR users, it can be confusing and time-consuming to select all the relevant settings to get the shots that you...
Simon Bray
30 Jul 2013
Photo & Video
Everything You Need to Know About Lens Quality
Understanding the physics of light puts you at a great advantage when trying to produce great photographs. Arguably, how light interacts with your lenses is...
Simon Bray
15 Jul 2013
Photo & Video
9 Fundamental Ways to Market Your Photography
When working professionally as a photographer, taking the photos can seem like the easiest part of the process. It’s the business side of things that...
Simon Bray
18 Apr 2013
Photo & Video
Photographing a Band for Their Album Cover
Photographing a band or artist can be a tricky process. There are often lots of people involved in creative decisions. As a result, it can end up being a...
Simon Bray
17 Apr 2013
Photo & Video
How to Take Brilliant Photos on a Cloudy Day
Living in the north of England, I've gotten used to shooting on cloudy days. I’d love it if we had blazing sunshine every day, but when it comes to weather,...
Simon Bray
15 Apr 2013
Photo & Video
A Step-by-Step Look at an Outlandish Musician Shoot
Thinking up interesting and engaging ideas for promotional portrait shoots is one of my favourite things. To try to engage the viewer and to represent the...
Simon Bray
25 Feb 2013
Photo & Video
Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Started with Retail Photography
Retail photography may not be something you’ve ever considered as a photographer, but it covers a lot of similar ground to commercial shoots, so if you’ve...
Simon Bray
18 Feb 2013
Photo & Video
Toby Lewis Thomas: Instinct and Opportunism
Toby Lewis Thomas is a young photographer from London, who never intended to start taking photos, but has managed to define his work with an exciting...
Simon Bray
13 Feb 2013
Photo & Video
Terry McNamara: Delicious Food Photography
Terry McNamara is a freelance photographer based in Manchester, UK. Having started as an enthusiast, he's gone from photography student to photography tutor,...
Simon Bray
29 Jan 2013
Photo & Video
Using Light to Shape Landscape Photography
My favourite landscape images don’t grab my attention purely because of the place they capture, but because of the way in which they are represented in the...
Simon Bray
23 Jan 2013
Photo & Video
Capturing Portraits, In Flight and Hands On Photos of Birds
Birds of prey have fascinated me since I was a young boy. When we were out in the countryside my dad would spot them, point them out to me and tell me which...
Simon Bray
16 Jan 2013
Photo & Video