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Why Industry Needs Regular Professional Photos

In today’s digital age, all businesses need great photography more than ever before. Industrial businesses, in particular, can benefit greatly from high-quality, regularly updated photography. Here are my top 5 reasons to get fresh content – we’ll explore the reasons why and the benefits it can bring to their operations. Industrial businesses often offer complex

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Long Exposure Photography

Making surreal images using Long Exposure Photography Techniques Long exposure photography is a popular technique photographers use to create stunning images that capture the beauty and essence of natural and urban landscapes – I love revisiting old places I’ve shot many times before to capture it through a different technique. Long exposure techniques involve using

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Blog, Discussion, Landscapes, Musings, Photography, Training, Yorkshire

John’s 2023 Personal Brand Shoot

Over a decade of shoots It’s over 10 years since we first did a personal brand shoot for John Thompson, from Metropolis. Back then it wasn’t called a “personal brand” of course, it didn’t really have a name – I just called it something vague, like a Profile Shoot. That first shoot was in the

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Blog, Business, CASE STUDY, Commercial, People, Photography

How Youtube Changed My Life

Is Miserable Telly Dragging You Down? The relentless negativity of broadcast media I don’t know if you’ve found this, but in the last few years, broadcast TV is filled with relentless negativity, pessimism, doom and gloom and general misery. Take channels like the BBC. I’ve long been a massive fan and advocate of theirs, watching

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Complete Fire Solutions – Team Shoot

Complete fire solutions are based in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, and, have probably saved lots of lives and hundreds of thousands of pounds in fire damage over the years They install and maintain fire prevention, alarm, warning and fighting equipment for businesses all over the Yorkshire area. Having a chat with director Richard, we decided to

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Estate House – For Sale in Bretton

The Old Estate House Here is one of our work interior photography jobs for estate agents. This particular home is at Bretton, basically near the West Yorkshire Sculpture Park just off the M1 near Wakefield. It was the office for the Bretton Estate where you went to pay your rent and all the documents are

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Architecture, Blog, Business, CASE STUDY, Photography

The Sharon Stacy’s 90’s Club Hit Band

90’s House and Rave Music! I was a student in Manchester in the early nineties and a regular at Raves and house music clubs, like:- The state, The Hacienda Sankey’s soap. The boardwalk, The Limit. Home …and many, many others I can’t remember the name of around the Manchester area. So when my friend, soul

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Isaacs Accountants – Charcoal Background Shoot

A New Website We first photographed, Isaac’s around six years ago, when they were getting their brand new website built. In 2022 we returned to see the team again, for you’ve guessed it, images for a new website! We discussed different looks for their team’s photography. The last time we shot the team members at

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When should you use AUTO ISO on your camera?

Why I Use Manual Mode with Auto ISO for Event Photography Direct answer: Manual mode with Auto ISO is a practical way to photograph events in mixed light when you cannot use flash. You keep control of shutter speed and aperture, so motion blur and depth of field stay consistent, while the camera adjusts ISO

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The York Walls and Street Photography Experience

Street Photography Experience It’s great to take people with strong landscape photography skills around the city and challenge of them and to capture people and architecture as it happens. That’s Street photography for you. Some of the most memorable photos you will have seen are street photography. Often you sit around waiting for things to

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