I'm on a mission to do as many cool outside woodland type autumn shots as I can before the trees lose their autumn colours. So I put a post up on Sunday asking if any models wanted to do a shoot on Monday. The first person to answer was my scary looking model/actor friend Mark Ryder. He lives next to Epping forest, so armed with some swords, camera gear, a monks robe and my helper monkey for the day Darrin Stripe, we ventured deep into the heart of Epping forest. I've been ne

Recently I had the joyous experience of shooting with Sophie Ryleigh. I'd seen her pictures floating around the internet and felt like doing something beautiful after all the weird horror stuff I'd been shooting lately. So I contacted her, we got chatting and planned a shoot in the woods near to where she lives. I wanted to try some natural light photos, go for a Jessica Drossin kind of thing. Then leading up to the shoot I saw an advert on TV with a light bulb in it, and my

Last weekend I found myself at an old abandoned fertiliser plant taking part in a Silent Hill inspired shoot with Portrait X. Horror isn't really my thing. I tend to avoid any horror based photography as I just don't feel that any of it looks any good. My style of photography is to make everyone look epic and awesome, and someone with blood rolling down their face is kind of the opposite of that. Putting that aside I did manage to get a few good shots. Plus it wouldn't be a G

Through a shed load of trial and error I appear to of got my head around the art of nightclub (or anywhere that is silly amounts of dark and has relatively low ceilings) photography. The thing that helps me the most is my Samyang 14mm 2.8 lens. The cool thing about the Samyang lenses is they are manual focus. Not like a vintage lens where you have to go backwards and forwards trying to get in focus, but more like you just roughly guess how far away from the subject you are an

After my first candle shoot I came away with a few lessons of what to do and what to not do again. On the first shoot we placed loads of little candles on trays. It was just easier to transport them into the studio area like that. Then after lighting them we realised that little candles suck. You're in a race to do the shoot before they go out. The trays were getting filled with wax, plus a tray full of candles doesn't really look that pretty, so I had to photoshop out the tr

Earlier this year I had the pleasure of photographing drummer extraordinaire Miss Sophie Alloway. Not only is she one of the best drummers in the known universe, she is also quite easy on the eye as well. Being a big Bruce Lee fan I felt that it would be silly not to make her do his famous nunchaku pose. I also managed to make her levitate her drum kit above the ground using just the power of her mind. Then she performed a fifteen minute long hi hat solo. Then after I showed

I've heard photographers talk about the photography market as being "over saturated", and it's true. If you are taking the same photos as the millons of other photographers in the world then yes, it's as saturated as....well, as the photography market. I look at it differently though. In a world with infinite possibilities coupled with a good knowledge of Photoshop then it should be relatively easy to stand out from the crowd. Is it a saturated market for Von Wong or Kirsty M