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Feva, Dani and Me

This has always been one of my favourite images. I have it in the studio on a mega-large canvas print.

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Favourite Photoshop Plugins: Filters Unlimited from icnet

Part of an occasional series on Plugins that I use while in photoshopping (or strictly Corelling) images.

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Experimental Shoots: Panoramas, Spheres and Stitching

You are probably familiar with the idea of stitching multiple photographs together to make a panoramic image.

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Agyness Deyn doing some posing

Some terrific posing work here, I particular like the scene early on where she's pulling the lighting assistants and lighting rig around, looks very strong.

Canon 5D Mk II = Making Video

Sorry, I'm not going to show you how... I just wanted to comment on the many videos that are now turning up on the web using the 5D as the video camera and some of them are just brilliant.

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Dear (new-ish) Photographer, from a model

Dear (new-ish) Photographer, My name is Model. I would love it if when you shoot me you take these things into consideration to achieve the greatest effect for us both.

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Hyper Focal Distance in Digital Photography - What is it? - How to calculate it. How to Use it.

Hyper Focal Distance in Digital Photography - What is it? - How to Calculate? and How to Use it to Maximize Depth of Field Factors that Influence Depth of Field Depending upon the subject and situation; we might either wish for a shallow or a...