Photography isn't the easiest skill to learn, and product photography is considered a particularly difficult kind of image-making. Even seasoned professional photographers in other fields get pretty stumped when it comes to shooting product images because it can be a highly technical genre. Ideally, every...
Motorsports photography was really one of the first kinds of imagemaking that I found myself enjoying. I started going to Silverstone in my early twenties and have been watching sports car racing and F1 ever since. I don't know much about cars, but I know what...
I want you to look real close at that image. Can you see the sparks? They weren't edited in after I'd taken the photo, they were actually there. This picture was shot at a small Wild West LARP and it is just about my favourite roleplaying...
It's made me happy over the last few years that small business owners have moved towards a more natural product photography style that doesn't require the technical know-how of a perfect white background shot. That's not to say that natural product photography doesn't require any photography...
Bathrooms often have the most wonderful light when it comes to photography. All those white tiles really bounce the light around and make for a wonderful bright and airy feel to images. In the photos is Chad. He's been living with me for a few years...
This might seem like a strange one to talk about - especially for number two on the list (not that the order of the post indicates any particular ranking, mind you). But product photography was my bread and butter for a good chunk of my...
This is the first in an occasional series exploring why I took photographs, what I think of them, and sometimes what I'd do differently if I had the opportunity to take it again. I'm shamelessly borrowing the idea from Magnum's original Behind the Image series...
What kind of a writer doesn't have a website where they write? Well, plenty actually but it's kind of rare for someone who specialises in blogging about photography and art not to have one. I realised that although I create loads of content for other people...