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
Preparing your team for corporate headshots comes down to four things: what people wear, what the photos are actually for, how the day is scheduled, and how you get natural expressions out of people who’d rather be anywhere else. Get those right and a headshot day runs smoothly and produces photos people are actually happy
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Blog, CASE STUDY, Commercial, Musings, People
Stop Feeding the Kit Delusion New gear won’t make you a better photographer. More shots will. Here’s why the upgrade treadmill is the most seductive trap in any hobby — and how to step off it. Let me be honest with you about something. I own an embarrassing number of virtual synthesisers. We’re talking
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Blog, Discussion, Equipment and Kit, Fun, Musings, Training
Street Photography in Bradford: A Practical Walk Through the City With a Camera Direct answer: Bradford is worth photographing because the city centre packs Victorian architecture, brutalist concrete, new public spaces, theatres, markets, and busy pedestrian routes into a short walk. That mix gives street photographers strong contrast, good blue-hour lighting, and plenty of human
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Architecture, Bradford, Discussion, Musings, Yorkshire
Is This Why People Disagree More Than Ever? Are we all watching a different movie? It’s a question I keep coming back to. How can people have such wildly different views on politics, countries, war, sport, history — you name it? Is it because, outside of our own lived experience, the only gateway we have
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You Get More Photos Now Than You Used To If you hired a photographer ten or fifteen years ago, you probably received a small, carefully selected set of images. That wasn’t because photographers were holding back. It was because time was the limiting factor. Editing used to be the bottleneck Every image had to be
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Blog, Business, Commercial, Musings, Photography
We Use the Same Camera for Work and Fun Most jobs have a clear line between work tools and personal life. Photography doesn’t. If you’re a lawyer, you don’t spend your Sunday afternoon drafting pretend contracts for enjoyment. If you’re an accountant, you don’t knock up a spreadsheet on holiday “just to keep sharp”.
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Discussion, Fun, Musings, Photography
Photography Doesn’t End at 5pm (And that’s why the results are better) Before photography, I spent 13 years as a software engineer. And here’s the honest truth: the second I left the office, software ceased to exist. No coding at weekends. No books about programming. No tinkering “for fun”. Work was work. Life was life.
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Fun, Musings, Photographer Types, Photography
Canon Mirrorless Camera Series for Beginners: which one’s actually good value (and won’t do your head in)? There’s a daft myth in photography that you “need the best body” to get started. You really don’t. Most beginners need three things: a camera that’s easy to use, a system that lets you grow (lenses, flash, tripod
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Lightroom Alternatives You Can Actually Own Outright There’s this daft idea that once you leave Lightroom you’ll be crawling back within a year, waving your credit card and muttering apologies to Adobe. Utter nonsense. If you’re an enthusiast who wants cracking image quality, a sane one-off payment and software that doesn’t nag you every month,
