Take a peek inside a landscape photographer’s travel bag

Travelling to make photographs can be challenging. One of the big tasks is figuring out what to pack. You want to pack as little as possible, but you don’t want to leave vital gear at home. In this video, landscape photographer Thomas Heaton talks about the equipment he’s travelled with to spend time shooting landscapes in […]

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A very RARE chance to photograph from the top of the Golden Gate Bridge

The visit started with a long ride in a very small iron worker’s elevator (about the size of a phone booth), which goes up through the middle of the tower, for the first 60 floors. The elevator is so small that there was no room for my ThinkTank camera backpack. I had to take my […]

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Photographers create fantasy image in ancient fairy woods

Recently me and Joseph Parry got to collaborate with lighting equipment company Pixapro, on a promotional shoot to showcase how their equipment can be used on location, and in various environments. The Maiden is the first of these shoots. Shoots can be born in many ways, The Maiden was birthed from an idea I had a […]

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Your guide to photographing a meteor shower

Photographing a meteor shower is more like photographing a time-lapse than traditional still photos. You can never anticipate where or when a meteor is going to streak across the sky. In order to catch them, you have to set up and take as many photos a…

Glow worms turn New Zealand cave into starry night and I spent past year photographing it

Something quite special dwells beneath the surface of New Zealand and these images prove that the country is just as beautiful below ground as it is above! The Waitomo area is famous for it’s limestone caves and within these caves are one of the most magical insects in the world, the glowworm. Glow worms emit […]

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What the heck is hyperfocal distance?

I often get the feeling that photography is talked and written about as if its practitioners have an innate knowledge of the terms involved. Any craft or profession comes with its own specialist language, but if you’re new to it—and even if you’re not—you can often feel overwhelmed by the terminology, let alone the technicalities […]

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How to deal with difficult panoramic image stitching in Photoshop the easy way

With the speed boosts and memory capacities of modern computers, stitching multiple shots together to make larger panoramic images has become a very common technique used by many photographers.  Chances are, if you’re reading this, you probably have too, or you’ve at least thought about giving it a go. While most stitches go pretty well, there are […]

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