Tilt-shift photography has become quite a trendy effect within portraiture, especially wedding photography. Unfortunately good Tilt-shift lenses aren’t cheap so I thought a tutorial on how to achieve similar results in Photoshop might be useful. There’s a variety of ways of creating this effect in Photoshop but most of them involve you having to create...
I meant to blog about this a few weeks ago but Stylesight (the leading online provider of trend forecasting for the style and design industry) has recently featured the shoot I did for Hucklebones last year in their Best of Children’s Fall/Winter 2010 Cool Campaigns. I’m obviously extremely pleased that the lovely Zoe & Dan from...
In this tutorial we’re going to look at a great technique for adding contrast to your images. The technique uses two curves adjustment layers, one to control the lighter parts of the image and a second to control the darker parts. Each layer uses a simple luminosity mask to restrict the adjustments so they only...
I was really pleased to be asked recently to do an interview about my retouch work for a new website for photographers called The Photography Parlour. Even though its still fairly new its a great site with some fantastic information already available. Thanks to Rosie Parsons for asking me to get involved.
Over the past few months I’ve been busy retouching images for a variety of incredibly talented photographers. There’s something I find quite liberating about working on images for other people, especially when the retouch brief is “do what you want”. When working on my own photography I tend to get really hung up on the...
You’ll probably recognise Jody from this shoot. He’s one half of Bristol based band Way Out West and while I was in Bristol shooting their press shots we arranged a solo shoot for Jody. I don’t really know Bristol that well so didn’t have any particular locations in mind. I usually like having the safety...
