This page has now been "frozen in time". If you want to see the newest technique pages CLICK HERE to go to the blog technique link . There is a really good reason for this - the images on these older pages belong to my former employer and, whilst I have their permission to keep them on line, that means that I cannot put any adverts or commercial links on the pages which use their images that weren't there when I went freelance in September 2008.

Over the years I have done a number of liver seminars and taught at quite a few college and universities. I am always open to offers from colleges, clubs and individuals who wish to book my services for tuition. I will try to publicise any public or open seminar events as much as I can and the best place to find out about them is my blog.

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A lot of news photographers don't think that they are allowed enough time to light pictures, so they rely on their hot shoe mounted flash or on moving their subject into the daylight. If your kit is lightweight and well planned, if it's reliable and quick to assemble then you can light as much of your work as you want to. I tend to specialize in editorial portraiture, so that is the area of work that I'm going to talk about.

When I was writing these pages my basic kit was one Lumedyne 200 joule pack, one Signature head, two regular batteries, one stand, an umbrella, a Chimera softbox and a Pocket Wizard kit - all in one sling bag. Since May 2009 that all changed and the Lumedyne kit was replaced by an Elinchrom Ranger Quadra system. I still like the Lumedynes but the Elinchrom is a few percentage points better!

In October 2003 I added an Umbrella Box to my kit in the hope of replacing two light modifiers with one, which has worked in some ways but I have to confess that I go through phases of using each of the light modifiers for a while and then switching

Every photographer has their own take on WORKFLOW. Exactly how you go about getting your images from the camera to the client depends on so many factors; time, number of images, quality required, software available etc etc. This page shows you how I go about my daily routine.