I’m on the move

by Gareth July 13, 2011
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Hello, Just a quick note to tell you I’m going to delete my Facebook account.  I will still be keeping my Facebook business page, but no longer checking my personal account. I will be moving to Google+ and I would really like to keep in touch with you, so hope that you follow me there. [...]

How to set a custom white balance

by Gareth May 31, 2011
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In my last post about colour management I described the steps I go through to ensure my images are captured, viewed, and printed correctly. You only get one chance to make a good impression so having these steps prevents me from accidently giving someone a blue face because of a wrong adjustment. I mentioned that [...]

Actor headshots

by Gareth May 30, 2011
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I never really knew how to take Tonci when I first met him.  Mainly because I don’t remember hearing his real voice until probably the third or fourth time we met.  Tonci is an actor, in the truest sense of the word.  He doesn’t just portray characters in movies, he tries to live and breath [...]

Photography blogs can be a pain in the arse

by Gareth May 24, 2011

I hate this blog.  There I said it.. I hate how it always calls my name after a shoot, how it wants more and more posts, or how it is so easy to customise to my liking.  I hate that I don’t understand how to code in wordpress/css/html/thingy3.4, and I hate that I have to [...]

Clients: A new way to get your files

by Gareth May 15, 2011

I’ve been using Dropbox for sometime now to keep my own files synchronised across multiple computers, and my iPhone. It’s an invaluable tool, and it’s also free! But recently I’ve started to use it more to share files with people, rather than send them a disk or use email. So I’m going to extend this [...]

Surviving as a colour blind photographer

by Gareth March 5, 2011

Being a colour blind photographer doesn’t mean the quality of my work suffers. See the procedures I have in place to ensure for my wedding photos

Sam & Ronise are Engaged

by Gareth December 22, 2010

Last week I second shot a wedding on one of the hottest days I can remember. So this weekend, in stark contrast, I shot an engagement session on one of the wettest. Ronise & Sam found me through Facebook, and wanted to shoot before Christmas so their engagement photos could be used on the invitations [...]