Niall Ferguson, 1997 portrait.
When an email from Channel 4 television landed in my in box with an advertisement for an upcoming and very interesting looking) new programme “China: Triumph and Turmoil” presented by a gentleman...
View ArticleFearne Cotton – The contact sheet, October 2004.
Back in 2004 Fearne Cotton was enjoying a very rapid rise in her profile and her career was really taking off. The TES Magazine had done an interview with her for their “My Best Teacher” feature and I...
View ArticleUK National Symposium on Photography 2012
The fourth National Symposium on Photography takes place this Friday, Saturday and Sunday in London. Timed to coincide with the World Photography Organisation Festival in London, the symposium will...
View ArticleThree months off from the day job.
It’s Monday morning and I’m sitting on the 06:25 train from Bournemouth to Waterloo for the first of many such trips over the next three months. I have decided to put the ‘day job’ aside and I’ve...
View ArticleA quick update…
Here I am on another morning train to London Waterloo from Bournemouth and tomorrow marks my fourth Monday morning working at London 2012. Training, preparations, more training and extra preparations...
View ArticleRubbish on Oxford Street
I was having a rare day off on Saturday and after a fantastic lunch in London’s China Town I walked up to Bond Street underground station to get a tube train back to where I am staying in Mile End. I...
View ArticleIt’s been a while…
Sitting here almost half way through December it’s hard to believe that I haven’t published anything on this blog for five months. I promise you that it wasn’t because I had run out of things to say or...
View ArticleThe Copyright Fight
It’s not very often that something comes up that threatens your livelihood in quite such a stark way as the current piece of legislation going through the UK Parliament. My colleague Eddie Mulholland...
View ArticlePeople in the news bringing back memories
I seem to have a very strong memory for where, when and why I photographed people in the past. When names come up in the news I often think “ah yeah I shot them at such and such a place”. Hilary...
View ArticleElinchrom Ranger Quadra Update
What do you call it when something that was already very good gets quite a lot better? Well I guess that would be an upgrade. That’s exactly what happened yesterday when I changed to the new Lithium...
View ArticleNew toy in the house… a Fujifilm X20
If you get a few professional photographers together there are a few topics of conversation that you are almost guaranteed to experience. One of those is compact digital cameras – the cameras that they...
View ArticleThe constant software update dilemma
Back in the day we used to occasionally try out new chemicals and different printing papers. We used to experiment with new film stock when it hit the market and, on the whole, it was a welcome...
View ArticleLocation flash workshop – June 22nd
For anyone who remembers that far back, my dg28.com website started out as a vehicle for me to post updates about the work that I was doing along with some technique examples that I rather pompously...
View ArticleRevisiting my workflow
It is impossible to work digitally without having some sort of workflow. Most are a bit better than adequate, some are good and some are blindingly awful. I think that it is important to have a look at...
View ArticleSo here it is… merry Christmas
Well today is my last day at the coal face until the new year (unless there’s interesting work and money on offer). Thinking back on the way work has been in 2013, it’s been a funny old year – but I...
View ArticleEye-Fi card workflow
When I was rounding up 2013 I mentioned that I had a lot of success using an Eye-Fi card to wirelessly transmit pictures from my cameras (Canon EOS5D MkIII and Fujifilm X20) to either my iPhone, iPad...
View ArticleFirst impressions of the EOS5D Mark IV wifi
When Canon announced that they had added a wifi capability to the new EOS5D Mark IV I was simultaneously surprised, delighted and apprehensive – emotions which have in turn given way to a sense of...
View ArticleThe Photographers’ Summit 2017
I do quite a few talks and lectures throughout the year and I don’t normally discuss the specifics here on the blog because they are rarely open to a general paying audience. This one is different. The...
View ArticleUsing the Canon W-E1 wifi adapter
When Canon announced the W-E1 wifi adapter for the EOS7D MkII and the EOS5S and 5SR I was decidedly underwhelmed for two reasons; The first was that it was not backwards compatible with the two EOS5D...
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