There’s a familiar pattern that plays out at local events, sports days, festivals, and community gatherings. A professional photographer is there, hired (or self-funded) to cover the event, carefully capturing, editing, and later selling images to participants. At the same time, a well-meaning hobby photographer is also present—camera in hand, enthusiasm high—and later shares their images online for free. On …
Hands on with the Nikon Z9 Over the last two days, I have been putting Nikon’s newest flagship camera – the Z9 – through it’s paces whilst photographing Coventry’s Three Spires Guildhall production of Sleeping Beauty at Warwick Arts Centre. On the first night, I shot on my trusty D5 along side the Z9 so that I could compare the …
I am delighted to say that we have been appointed as a brand ambassador for PhotoXport Global – the UK’s official distributor for Citizen Printers. I took the decision prior to the start of the pandemic to switch to using Citizen’s range of dye sublimation printers at our events and couldn’t be happier with the results. I spent four long, …
I had the misfortune of taking my wheelchair-bound mother to the store on the Leicester Road, Rugby, at around 7 p.m. on Friday the 28th July and I was horrified at just how difficult it was to navigate the store. Virtually every aisle had cages either containing rubbish or produce waiting to be put out on display but there were …
We were delighted to have been invited to partner with Coventry Comic Con to provide our photographic services for their event.Following a meeting with the organisers, it was decided that we needed to implement three separate studios – one for the meet and greet, a green screen studio for the Cosplayers and a studio to photograph guests sat in a …
Recently, I’ve been experiencing speed problem with my BT Infinity 2 service – I’ve been getting transfer rates of around 7Mbs when I should have been getting up to 76. During a chat with one of their support technicians, he let slip that the Home Hub 5 doesn’t support Infinity 2 properly. More on that later….. …. First we need …
Yesterday’s event, the Into The Woods Ball, was the first outing for the newest additions to our ever-expanding equipment list: a pair of Pixapro CITI 600 TTL strobe heads. Whilst I’d been looking at buying these lights for some time, I hadn’t planned on doing it just yet. Unfortunately last weekend’s job saw four of our normal studio lights pack …
