How difficult is it to photograph children?

Note! Good photography isn’t cheap….. and cheap photography often isn’t good!

You will see there are thousands of photographers out in the marketplace, all vying for your business, how on earth should you choose?

Do you want the cheapest possible job but pay more in the long run as the quality is fine for Facebook but not your dining room wall? Do you want the [...]

Launch of new Family and Couples portrait package in Stockport

We are pleased to announce a new package geared towards families and couples which gives them a range of photographs to treasure

Full details are available from this link

Why professional photographers charge what we do

1. Professional photographers are in business, and consequently we need to make a profit to survive. Because it is our career, we dedicate ourselves to becoming the best we can be, and share that knowledge with our clients in the form of the photographs we take.

2. Professional photographers have to buy professional equipment. Nope, [...]

New baby bump picture – Sharon and Bump

This is a picture of my wife Sharon and our soon to be born bump, gorgeous and brings a tear to my eye…. Hope you enjoy

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Spicer Hallfield will soon be no more – Administration fails

Well the inevitable seems to have happened, Spicers administrators are struggling to find a buyer to take on the business as a going concern and it now looks like they will be liquidated.

I first heard about this just over a week ago when I got a mail from the administrators inviting me to the [...]

New 24-70mm F2.8 L Series Lens in the bag

I’ve been looking for a few weeks now for a fast aperture low light professional lens and finally settled upon the venerable L Series lens from canon in the guise of a 24-70mm F2.8 L Series and I am very happy that I did.

I will add some pictures below – i’ve noticed it [...]

Canon EOS EF lens for sale – 20-35mm and 35-70mm

For all your photo nuts out there, I have the pleasure of trying to sell you the following excellent lens.

Only reason for sale is I no longer use them so i’d rather sell on so they get used.

EF 35-70 f3.5-4.5 macro – originally cost me £119

EF 20-35 wide angle f3.5-4.5 with hood [...]

Pressefotografforbundet: Too much Photoshop? Judge for yourself

To me, I can understand fully why the judges disallowed these images, sorry but they are just too processed for my liking but they are good pictures nonetheless.

What I do take issue with is the judges seeing the raw files as the facts of the scene, colours and all – we all know that [...]

British Journal of Photography – Photo blunder reveals government’s decisions

I find this really astonishing, not only did some super telephoto lens get a top cop the sack a couple of weeks ago due to him openly carrying top secret terrorist papers that were subsequently photographed resulting in the text being clearly readable, another muppet has done the same thing!

When will they ever learn [...]