NOTEBOOK
How I Store 18 Years of Client Photos (Without Deleting My RAW Files)
If there's one question photographers ask me more than almost anything else, it's: "What do you do with all your photos?" After 18 years of photographing families, personal brands, businesses and events, this is the photography storage workflow I rely on to keep every...
Why Photographers Keep Switching Software (When the Real Problem Is Usually Elsewhere)
I spend a lot of time helping photographers in Facebook groups. I’ve done it for years - answering questions, troubleshooting catalogues, talking people through edits. And after all of that, plus years of editing professionally and teaching photographers one-to-one,...
What’s in my CAMERA bag – the photography gear I actually use
If you’ve ever wondered what actually goes into a working photographer’s camera bag (as opposed to what gear YouTube says you need), this is mine. This is the setup I use for brand shoots, portraits, families and lifestyle work – chosen for reliability, image quality,...
My Top Gear PICKS for Photographers
These are the hard drives, SSDs and SD cards I currently recommend. I keep this page updated throughout the year and refresh it whenever I find better options or particularly good deals. It’s never the wrong time of year to upgrade the bits of kit that make a...
Best Lightroom workflow when using Imagen
Have you heard?? It's the best thing for your workflow and Lightroom editing since sliced bread - so unless you've been hiding under a bush/huge editing pile (editing pile being more likely than a bush!), then you would have heard the buzz about Imagen technology! I...
“Triple-lock” backup workflow for photographers
As photographers it is IMPERATIVE that we have a fail-safe backup workflow to protect our work and clients images. It is our worst fear that we may lose images - often at no fault of our own - just the words 'failed harddrive' and photographers go into a cold sweat....
Portrait editing series: 2 – How to Brighten Eyes in Lightroom
On my Lightroom workshops one of the most popular things we cover is editing a portrait using the healing tool and adjustment brushes to create the perfectly natural portrait. On my personal branding sessions I 'beauty re-touch' all the portraits that get selected. I...
Portrait editing series: 3 – How to whiten teeth in Lightroom
On my Lightroom workshops & 'QUICK FIXES' one of the most popular things we cover is retouching skin, brightening eyes and whitening teeth on a portrait using the healing tool and adjustment brushes to create the perfectly natural portrait. On my personal branding...
Portrait editing series: 1 – How to retouch skin in Lightroom
On my Lightroom workshops & 'QUICK FIXES' one of the most popular things we cover is skin retouching a portrait using the healing tool and adjustment brushes to create the perfectly natural portrait. On my personal branding sessions I 'beauty re-touch' all the...
Bright Friday sale
Because I'm not keen on the name Black Friday - I am having a BRIGHT Friday sale! We all need as much colour in our lives as we can get! This will be in place for November and December 2020. I am retiring my original collections now that Lightroom has released Version...
