Part Two of my Photographing Laura series. Learn how I used a portable flash gun to light these photos.

Part One: It’s been a long time since I’ve photographed a model. It’s something I used to do a lot when I was younger, but since then I started travelling and my photography shifted to a more documentary style.

I noticed something interesting while browsing Los Angeles advertising photographer Ryan Schude’s website…

A quick guide to creating diptyches and triptyches in Photoshop CS 3 and a nifty tip for visually tying the images together.
Browsing on Flickr a few weeks ago I came across a beautiful set of diptyches. Why do I like them so much? I think it’s because there’s a visual resonance between two wonderful photos that [...]

A short guide to quickly and easily embedding photos in your website or blog.
I quickly realised when designing & coding my website that it’s not easy to create a gallery for my photos. Coding by hand is very time consuming. Even using a flash application like Simpleviewer it still takes time to resize photos and [...]

A quick guide to adding textures to your photos using the Virtual Photographer plug-in.
Photographer John Short recommended the Virtual Photographer Plug-In on page 41 of the April 2008 issue of Photography Monthly. The use of texture in digital photography is a popular trend so I thought I’d take a closer look at the plug-in.
The first [...]

I published this article on the JPGMag website today. JPGMag, if you didn’t know, is a photography site anyone can join and upload their photos and photography articles. The best of the best are published in a real magazine. A cool feature is that members can vote for the photos and articles they like. Here [...]