Blog - Photo tips

The result of the first 'Shoot your Granny' assignment...
...no children were harmed in the making of this photo.

This Photoshop video tutorial explains the purpose of using Actions in Photoshop to help speed up you workflow and build up a library of your favourite editing techniques.

This article looks at business networking and how it fits into your marketing mix as a photographer.

You read all the time about making sure you should have catchlights in a model's eyes. This article looks at when you should light portraits from the front or back.

This tip explains how to improve your HDR photos.

This article explains how you can earn more money from your photography and win more business. It challenges the preconceptions that photography is now just a price war. Don't follow the crowd, don't be down hearted and start making a better living from your photography.

Are you smart, sneaky, inventive or cruel? If so, tell me something you’d like me to photograph and I’ll pick the best idea out each month and try to fulfil the brief. I’ll list all the proposals so you can see what I’m chickening out of!

This article explains why people hate marketeers, but also why good marketing is a positive and dare I say noble cause. After reading the article you may be inspired to promote your photography business accordingly, or not.

This Photoshop video tutorial shows you how to edit a model's eyes and bring out their colour.

Referrals and testimonials are quick, simple and powerful photography marketing tools. Best of all they're free. This article explains more.

This video tutorial shows you how to create vignette in Photoshop.

This Photoshop video tutorial shows you how to replace and blend a bland sky in a photo with a better sky from another photo.

Whether you're starting out in the photography business or at a bit of a crossroads, it's important to consider your basic business model - should you be a specialist or a generalist photographer?

This video shows you how to enhance your sunsets and other photos using Adobe Camera Raw's adjustment brush.

This video shows and explains the benefits of using RAW files and RAW software in your photography.

This video shows you how to use the replace colour tool in Photoshop to give you dramatic photos even in dull weather.

I'm now a contracted freelance writer for CNNGo.com which is a travel website run by CNN. My first article is called 'Top 5 day trips from Kuala Lumpur' and it was published on their website www.cnngo.com today.

This article explains how to differentiate your photography business and offers some ideas for making it unique in the market.

This article explains the role that emotion has in marketing your photography business.

This Photoshop video tutorial shows you how to use Layer Masks in Photoshop.