Following on from my recent children’s photography feature in Photo Pro I’m really happy to have been asked to write a series of portrait retouching tutorials for the magazine. I know there’s quite a few overseas photographers who read my blog and are unable to get the magazine so I thought I’d post the tutorials...
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...
Whether you’re a professional photographer, an enthusiast or a parent with a ‘point and shoot’, photographing your own children as they grow can be deeply rewarding. However, kids are always a challenge to photograph. They move extremely fast which as a photographer can get incredibly frustrating, not to mention leaving you with lots of unusable...
I got an email from another photographer today who is currently involved in a big product shoot He wanted to know the best way to combine two exposures in Photoshop of the same product, one exposed for the product (1/60th at f11) and the other exposed for the LCD screen with the studio flash off....
Texture overlays have become extemely popular with portrait and wedding photographers over the last year or two. Obviously, it doesn’t suit every image but on the right image the results can look fantastic. By using different types of textures on you can create a wide variety of looks from simple toning to completely destroying an...
