Category Archives: Industry News

Today’s Photo Recipe (aka “How to recycle your Christmas Lights”)

Ingredients:-

Take the creative mind of a certain Mr John Denton (photographer extraordinaire)
Roll one wooden floor to an even thickness
Add one attractive model (thank you Ms Ashleigh Hewitt)
Garnish with some recycled Christmas Fairy Lights
Lastly sprinkle some digital processing to taste

This is a quick shot I took at John Denton’s mini Lighting Workshop that I organised at...

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Photojournalistic meets Artistic – a Shoot in the City at the SWPP Convention

Last weekend saw Morag and I down in London for the Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers Annual Convention for 2010.
The convention is a mix of trade show and educational seminars and we had a very busy weekend trying to absorb as much information as possible.
Morag focused on the product side of things whilst I...

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We’ve Scooped Two Gold Awards at the SWPP’s Monthly Competition

I was delighted and very honoured to hear today that I’d scooped up two Gold Awards in the SWPP’s latest monthly competition for October.
The SWPP (Society of Wedding and Portrait Professionals) runs a national competion each month over a range of different categories.  The Gold Award winning images will go forward to the SWPP’s...

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The Sad Tale of a Couple who Picked the Wrong Wedding Photographer

One of the most-read items of news on the BBC website yesterday was the sad tale of a young couple who had the misfortune of having to sue their wedding photographer over the dreadful quality of his images.
The unhappy couple, Marc and Sylvia Day, took photographer Gareth Bowers to court for £1450 in compensation for...

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