Matt's Blog
8th January 2010 - Perfect Skin?
Back in the good old days of photography you had to have a very good make-up artist to ensure perfect skin in photo shoots (or a very good model to start with). Then came digital and with a bit of work from a Photoshop expert most of the blemishes could be removed from a model’s [...]
8th December 2009 - Family Portraits – Easy?
Digital photography has lots of advantages, but to the professional photographer it also has a distinct disadvantage in that everyone with a digital camera now thinks they can do the same job just as easily themselves or that your work involves no real effort after pressing the shutter.
Take family portraits for instance. I’m sure that [...]
18th November 2009 - School Photos
Everyone must remember at least one of their own school photos and is probably haunted by them whenever they visit elderly relatives. Artistically they were never really up to much – but then what do you expect when you have a production line of children forced to sit in front of an unforgiving mottled blue [...]
14th November 2009 - Setting Yourself a Project
Photographers are always being told to set themselves a project to help progress their photography. It’s something that I find very useful to get me away from my “bread and butter” landscape and family portrait images and allows me to concentrate on a topic without thinking of the saleability of an image.
The problem I find [...]