Articles on miscellaneous photography related topics
FUNKY FRANKWELL – SHREWSBURY’S UNDISCOVERED GEM Frankwell or “Funky Frankwell” as it is often referred to is a vibrant, bustling area on the north side of the Welsh Bridge in Shrewsbury. The area is gloriously down at heel, deprived of funding and support and decidedly off the tourist map, but businesses there have developed a…
Ageing Gracefully is a project by photographer Chris Wright. The project was created in collaboration with Age UK. The inspiration for the project is Chris’s recognition that photography of the aged tends to either patronise or isolate. Chris was not interested in portraying plucky old folk dragooned into activities they probably detest or focussing on…
Innovative marketing in the Property market was probably most notable back in 2000 with the widespread takeup of the internet as the primary marketing channel. Since that breakthrough we’ve seen a little incremental change, e.g. HDR photography, but little to suggest the industry is about to reinvent itself. Yet looking to America, the industry is…
Photography, Video & GDPR or the General Data Protection Regulation are explicitly linked as the GDPR treats certain images as an extension of the data that Photographers and Videographers keep about their clients. If you’re reaction to this is “so what?”, then you need to know that GDPR becomes law on 25 May 2018, and…
This peculiar photograph is a flattened version of a 360° Panorama I created today of our studio. 360° Panoramas & Virtual Tours are very big in Europe and America right now and we think that with recent improvements to the UK’s Broadband Infrastructure that the time may be right to investigate this branch of photography/video…
How to Shoot Wine on a White Background is a companion piece to my earlier post How to Shoot Whisky on a White Background. The techniques are identical, except for the lighting.
Learning how to shoot whisky on a white background requires an appreciation of physics (light), aesthetics (look and feel) and technology (lenses, depth of field, post processing). Light A photograph records the light returned or reflected from an object. Light travels in straight lines (more or less) and can be modified in a number of…
Great product photography is harder to achieve than it looks. The good news is that it is not too difficult to get right as long as there is clarity about what you are trying to achieve.
Content Marketing with Microvideo is all the rage this year, we’ve been applying ourselves to seeing what works and what doesn’t. This post shows what we’ve discovered.
Delighted to say that I’ve passed the practical and theoretical elements of my drone certification. Having spent months practising the manoeuvres in the wide open spaces of the Shropshire countryside I replicated those performances within the much tighter confines of a field neighbouring a hotel garden in Chester with views of motorways and the decidedly…