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I shot a friends wedding the other day and as an amazing thank you they gave me a £300 Jessops voucher. I have wanted a flash gun for ages now and was going to get a couple of cheap YN-460's from amazon but now with this gift it's kinda thrown a spanner in the works. What to do!!! a) Save it for a few months time when I can afford to put an extra £100 to it for a Canon 580EX b) Get the cheaper Canon 430EX plus some accessories with the change... lighting stand remote trigger etc. c)I saw a Metz in the shop the other day but not sure what the model was blokey said it was edging towards the 580 capability and was just slightly mor

For me, a good portrait should be something that is one (or both) of two things... Uber creative whether that be some considerable care an attention to your lighting set-up, the use of a well thought out and executed concept or mixing it up with some other form of media like another photo, some art work,, you get the picture. The second and for me the one that I prefer is "that moment" who wants a photo of some random model in front of some corrugated iron fencing on their wall? We want our friends, our family, our loves. We want those photo's to reflect the personalities of the people we love a loving glance, a cheeky smile or just plain stu

Yesterday I met the O'Connor family at Walton Hall Gardens at 10am. Kathryn is an old school friend who saw I wanted some practice and stepped into help with her family, hubby Ian, Jack and Ellie. No sooner had we walked into the park when the heavens opened up taking shelter under a tree until it let off enough for us to walk back to the cars calling it a day. On our way back the rain stopped so we decided to go for it and take a few photo's so it wasn't a complete waste of journey for the family. About an hour later we stopped taking photo's and here are some of my favourite images from the day. Kath and Ian have two great children and I ho