Understand your Camera – Focus Points, what’s the point?

All DSLR cameras have multiple focus points but do you need them and how do you use them effectively like a commercial photographer? Yes, indeed you certainly need a focus point or your image will be blurry, but do more focus points mean a sharper image? No, they don’t. If you have your camera set…

Shooting Cars – What is a Polarising Filter and why do I need one?

When you’re shooting cars for whatever reason, whether they are for sale or especially for a magazine feature, you really need to manage the reflections.  Cars can be a pain to shoot as they have lots of curves and flat panels, these cause reflections and sometimes you’re going to want to get rid of them,…

Understand your Camera – What is a RAW file and why do you need it?

You’ll be using you’re camera in Manual Mode like a commercial photographer by now right? If you’re not then you should be as it really isn’t that difficult to deal with but your camera has a host of other options for you to play with too and one of those is the image quality.  My…

Shooting People – LinkedIn Profile Picture – A Guide

So why you should have a professional photographer help you with your LinkedIn profile picture and what should you avoid? Most business people these days are on the online business network, LinkedIn, I suspect a few people reading this have followed the link from it to this post.  Your profile on the site is your…

Shooting People – Top tips for shooting at an event

As Nottingham’s self-proclaimed busiest networking photographer, this lockdown has hit quite hard as obviously there are no events to attend and currently no clue as to what they will be like once it’s lifted. I’m not expecting a return to the old ways for quite some time but hopefully it won’t be that long until…