Back in October I received a phone call from a guy who was looking for a retoucher. He had been told that I was the best in the area. Barnaby said that they’d been to a photographer to get portfolio shots for his girlfriend Cheryl. He understood that even professional …
A couple of weeks back I got a Tweet from Bobby Earle asking if it was possible to remove the lady on the right in the picture below. Of course I said anything is possible and gave Bobby an estimate for the job. He said he would get back to …
Why does Pofessional Photography cost so much? This is the age of digital cameras, scanners, and home photo printers, I get this all the time: Why do you charge £XX.00 for an 8×10 when they only cost me £2.00 at Jessops? Well, Jessops don’t pay for my time and expertise. …
In preparation for my Photoshop for Photographers DVD, I thought it would be a great experience to recreate my popular blog tutorial showing how to merge multiple exposures into one. So after 8 takes and several hours of uploading to YouTube here is my first tutorial [youtube:jH5B0MRqLJQ] This has been …
Ok so on Twitter I follow @ScottBourne, who yesterday posted about if you wanted your photographs to be critiqued then you needed to supply 72PPI 640 Pix wide to thepwspi@gmail.com He had a swarm of replies saying that PPI didn’t matter, and they were right, but he’s been defending his …
So I’m coming up on my 10,000th post on Twitter and figured I would give away something that was useful. 2 Hours of my time retouching a photograph or photographs (subject to evaluation of photograph/s) for FREE! My usual pricing is £25 per 15 minutes. RULES In order to win …
Ok so here’s the start of Photoshop Tuesdays! I hope to show what goes into a photograph from when it is taken by the photographer, through to the finished product. Here we have the straight out of camera shot by Jen Eustace, she’s kindly let me use this image as …
A couple of weeks ago we had the privilege to shoot Jess and Mike on their Blessing. Jess coming from the US wanted a shot of them with some graffiti. Well that was a challenge! the local council had decided that graffiti was a no-no for the town, so what …
This morning I was greeted by an e-mail from Eric Koch he had a dilemma.. In the attached photo there are a couple of snowflakes that the bride’s mom wants out. The one on the lips and the one on the ear. I know I should be able to get …
Last week I had a request from Canadian Photographer Lloyd Yoon who had found a problem with one of his photographs.. When he had taken the shot, the bride had actually wrinkled her forehead spoiling an amazing photograph. Lloyd figured it would take him hours to fix, and instead of …
