Low autumn sunshine is the best free lighting you’ll get all year. Because the sun sits so low in the sky, it lights leaves from the side and shines straight through them, rather than beating down from above. Yesterday it was bright enough to drag me away from my desk for an hour’s walk round
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Blog, Composition, Musings, Photography
Construction case study photography is a planned set of images that tells the story of one construction project, from the starting point through the build to the finished result and the team who delivered it. A good set gives construction companies, architects and developers a case study that stands up on its own, plus images
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Blog, Business, Commercial, Construction
A combined business photoshoot is a single planned visit where one commercial photographer covers your people, your premises and aerial drone photography, so you leave with one consistent set of images instead of three separate bookings. It suits businesses across Yorkshire that want commercial drone photography alongside ground-level work. Quick answer: can one photographer do
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Factory photography, often called industrial photography, is commercial photography of a working manufacturing site: the production line, the machinery, the people running it and the finished product, shot so a business can use the images in sales material, bids, recruitment and on its website. It sounds simple. Point a camera at a machine. But anyone
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Blog, Commercial, Construction, Industrial
A top-up headshot session is a return visit to re-photograph a team that’s already been done once — same background, same standard, just brought back up to date. It’s the difference between a company that looks current and one that looks like it stopped updating its website in 2023. You had me round a couple
The best photography locations in the Yorkshire Dales are not always the famous ones. They are the places that suit the weather you have, give you something decent in the foreground, and leave enough time to work a photograph rather than tick a pin off a map. Quick answer: where should you photograph in the
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Landscapes, Photography, Yorkshire, Yorkshire Dales
Got a Graveyard of AppSumo Lifetime Deals? Put AI to Work on Them I’ve got to admit it: I am, and have been for some time, addicted to buying lifetime software deals on AppSumo. Some of them have been brilliant. I’m dictating this article into Letterly, for example. It’s basically a one-trick pony, but it
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Artificial Intelligence, Blog, Musings
Drone photography is the use of an unmanned aircraft to capture aerial stills and video, and for many existing photographers it’s one of the easiest new skills to add in 2026 — provided your genre actually benefits from the height. Quick answer: should you get into drone photography? If you shoot landscapes, architecture, seascapes or
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DRONE, Equipment and Kit, Landscapes, Tips
Exposure Explained: Why Every Camera Setting Is Just Filling a Glass The exposure triangle is the relationship between three camera settings — aperture, shutter speed and ISO — that together decide how bright or dark a photo comes out. Get your head around it once, properly, and every camera you ever pick up makes sense.
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Blog, Equipment and Kit, Photography, Photography Basics for Beginners
Why AI Still Can’t Fake Real Photography AI-generated photography is imagery produced by a model that has learned visual patterns from millions of real photos scraped off the internet, rather than a photograph taken by a camera, in a real place, at a real moment. Quick answer: can AI actually create a genuinely great photograph?
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Artificial Intelligence, Blog, Musings