My Essential Kit

I thought I would mention some of the essential items I carry with me in my kit bag everywhere I go and I mean every shoot I go to these items apart from my Canon 7D and memory cards go with me. UPDATE - I now also use a Canon 5D mk2 but all my other kit is the same. Camera Bag - Lowepro Fastpack 350 I get asked this question alot, well apart from which camera do I use, what camera bag do I use. Lowepro FastPack 350 The answer is simple I use a lowepro FastPack 350,  I find it...

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Lighting

As every good photographer will know the word photography actually means "writing with light" and this means that one of the most important things you can get right in order to get a great photograph is the lighting. For an excellent video guide please check out this great series of tutorials by the Better Photos Academy Lighting comes from two main sources ambient and artificial, and being able to control your lighting is the key to your photos being great rather than good. Ambient Light This...

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Most Common Photography Terms

Ok so I have given a little insight into how to mount your lens and what its buttons do, I am also going to give you an quick overview of the most common terms you will hear in connection to photography. Dont worry its not going to be too indepth or technical and definately not going to go on for ever, its just a simple guide to help you with you photography success. And before you start go saying "what about this and what about that", this page is only meant to give the most common terms you will encounter when starting and working in advertising,...

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Why Buy a DSLR?

Over the last 10 years camera have come on in leaps and bounds, first digital then more and more megapixels and now with consumer cameras which cost under £200 having more mega pixels than some professional DSLRs, alot of people are wondering why do you need to buy a professional DSLR if you get the same results with a consumer level camera. Now there are many issues to consider when buying a camera and here are just a few of them What is the camera going to be used for? This one is simple to...

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Photo Shoots

Some of my Photo Shoots please click photos for more information on my photo shoots Model: Becky Magson Location: South Shields Type: Fashion ...

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Portfolio Websites

Ok so now you are in this wonderful world of photography you need to decided on what areas of photography you do and as there are so many to choose from with everything from fashion, landscape, location, editorial to name but a few, you will need somewhere to show off your work and if you are working with models, MUA's, stylists you will need somewhere to find them. The question is where do you start, well being the nice fellow that I am, I have listed below some of the site that I use as...

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Camera Lens

OK there is lots that can be said about camera lenses, good bad and ugly. It is not my aim on my blog to get really techical about lenses I am simply going to help you by giving you some basic necessary information to help you out, and in most cases this info applies to both video cameras as well as DSLR. Again the shots used are based on Canon, but all DSLR lenses work the same work, only slight differences are connected to two areas All telephoto or zoom lenses have a zoom ring, but on some...

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