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. My basic kit is 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. 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.

Below you'll find links to well over fifty technique pages. The slide show on the left contains all of the early ones.They feature pictures that I have taken in the last few years and a detailed explanation of how each one was done. If you start with Flash and blur 1 then each one has a "next" button to go through the lot!