Mark Seymour Life of a Documentary Photographer
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Online Issue 2 - February 2017 MARK SEYMOUR LIFE OF A DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHER THE SOCIETIES AWARD WINNING IMAGES OF 2016 BASICS WITH BRIAN “THE BRAIN” 10 ESSENTIAL PHOTOSHOP EFX WITH MARK CLEGHORN ACADEMY LIVE CRIT TOP TEN COMMENTS PIMP MY PICTURE GARDEN MACRO TIPS WITH MICHELLE WHITMORE ZEISS LENS REVIEW WITH LISA BEANEY BIG PHOTO COMPETITION - WELCOME TO THE BIG PHOTO E-ZINE HEADSHOTS elcome to the second issue of The Big Photo, we hope the first informed and enlightened you in some way. WThis month we’re brining you another fantastic variety ROADSHOW of content, a amazing Architectural Image of the month, an insight into the world of Top Documentary & Wedding photographer Mark Seymour, Garden Macro tips, Mark Cleghorn’s essential Photoshop EFX, and much much more. inspire The Big Photo is ultimately designed as a celebration of The Photographer Academy create photography and photographers, so this month we also brining you some of the amazing winning images from the SWPP 2016 Photographer of the Year is proud to present The Big awards. These images show the amazing quality of images being produced today and Photo UK Roadshow 2017 hopefully inspires you to shoot that little bit better every day. and this year it’s all about Remember you can get your images featured to, if you make the top ten in our monthly Headshots! critique then your image will appear in the magazine. Also, don’t forget The Big Photo is Bringing you specific training including Business, an interactive Ezine, so look for links to take you directly to more great content from The Lighting, Posing, Pricing, Products and finishing the Photographer Academy and our partners. image for sale in Photoshop. The talks throughout the day will get you buzzing with We want The Big Photo E-zine to be what you want it to be, so let us know if you have a ideas and guaranteed to take your photography and great idea for content you’d like to see covered and feel free to share each issue with all business to a whole new level. your photo friends. All our love Sam & The Photographer Academy Team! ROADSHOW DATES 19th June – Manchester 22nd June – Reading CONTENTS PAGES 20th June – Coventry 23rd June - Southampton 21st June – London BASICS WITH BRIAN: DSLR SETTINGS 5 - 9 IMAGE OF THE MONTH 10 - 12 10 ESSENTIAL PHOTOSHOP EFX WITH MARK CLEGHORN 13 - 19 ACADEMY LIVE CRIT TOP TEN 21 - 33 £10 PIMP MY PIC 34 - 35 PRICEDVD INCLUDES DOWNLOADWORTH FREE £69 FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHER: MARK SEYMOUR 36 - 49 ROADSHOW TOPICS GARDEN MACRO ESSENTIALS WITH MICHELLE WHITMORE 50 - 57 How much do I charge? The Styles BUSINESS TIPS: THE BENEFITS OF PRODUCT PREVIEWS 58 - 59 The Gear Lighting Techniques Cropping Posing and Expression ACADEMY BLAST FROM THE PAST: CLOCK & COMPASS 60 2017 Pricing Psychology EXTRACT FROM ALL ABOUT FLASH: TYPES OF FLASH 62 - 63 HEAD Location selection The Finish LIGHTROOM CC: USING REFERENCE VIEW SHOTS The Pro Conference 10am - 11.15am 64 ROAD The Headshot Session 12 - 1.15pm ZEISS OTUS & BATIS LENS REVIEW WITH LISA BEANEY 65 - 70 SHOW Facebook For Photographers 2.15 - 3.15pm The Big Photo 3.45 - 5pm THE SOCIETIES AWARD WINNING IMAGES OF 2016 72 - 106 Trade Show 9.30 - 5pm WHAT’S COMING UP ON THE PHOTOGRAPHY ACADEMY 107 - 111 BOOK TODAY there for any inaccurate, delayed or incomplete information, nor for any actions taken in reliance Ltd assumes no liability or responsibility PhotoTraining4u The information within this publication is for information purposes only. without verification by us. by such individual, or organization has been provided on. The information contained about each individual or organization therein. responsibility for the opinion expressed Ltd. carries no PhotoTraining4u Ltd. Therefore, the opinion of PhotoTraining4u in each article is the opinion of its author and does not necessarily reflect The opinion expressed all original rights. with permission of copyright holders who retain All images reproduced of any content in this publication without the written permission of the publisher is strictly prohibited. Any form of reproduction Ltd. All rights reserved. © 2017 PhotoTraining4u BIG PHOTO COMPETITION 112 http://thephotographeracademy.com/big-photo-uk-tour 12 x £195 monthl SPECIAL OFFER £500 i n£itia2l pa840 Add at least £30k to your business y pa yment plus The price for the year is amazing value for money and when you consider yments (inc what is included, its a real “no-brainer”, plus there’s the ability to spread payments. What is The Xperience? . V A The goals of The Xperience Group are to help you develop your business by generating more T) Basics clients through tried and tested localised marketing as well as national campaigns plus independent specialist promotions. Whether you are a professional taking your business in a new direction or you are just starting out by Brian Worley in the photographic business, The Xperience Group is guaranteed to make the difference with Brian What you get with Xperience Making sense of DSLR settings & terminology Plus all this.. ’ve yet to find the photographer who has not worked out where the on/off switch or • Starter Pack Ishutter release button is for their camera; • Webinars but there are some settings, controls that • Catch-up Day you should be able to find on your DSLR • Social Media 1-2-1 camera. It’s also important to have an idea • £250 of Wall Portraits of their value to your photography, before • Xperience Awards you press the shutter. Terminology does • Graphic Design Assistance vary from one camera brand to the next, • Mark Cleghorn Products but a good number of terms are quite • Academy Business Membership common for all brands. • Facebook Group • Assistance with yearly Press Releases Exposure modes & • Literature Design the mode dial • Promotional Literature • Banner Design Most cameras – except a few modes and the common four; appropriate settings than the • Discounts professional models – have program (P), aperture priority plain full automatic setting. a fully automatic exposure (Av/A), shutter priority (Tv/S) and The amount of light captured mode. Fully automatic gives manual (M) modes. Advanced in a picture depends on three But don’t just take our word for it, here’s what our members say: almost all the picture making photographers working to create factors, shutter speed, aperture decisions to the camera’s and ISO. The camera will automatic systems. You simply have an exposure meter that New products from Loxley arrived in Before joining The Xperience, I sadly called have to aim at the subject measures the light so that the last week and along with tidying-up on myself a photographer and business owner. and choose when to press camera can set some of the “ “ Now after joining and having access to the the shutter. Automatic modes settings for a good exposure, “ the viewing experience, they contributed wealth of knowledge from Mark and his produce nicely exposed or the photographer can use to sales of £4500 today. Here’s to “ many more days like this. amazing team, the changes to my business pictures in good light, but for the exposure meter reading to and my photography are overwhelming. something creative you’ll have guide their own settings. Of William I can’t thank you all enough. to have a bit more input to the course there are various lens Julian process. adapters that allow lenses from a different brand to be fitted to The mode is usually changed pictures usually use one of these your camera, but check to make with a turn of the dial on the four modes. The preset exposure sure you won’t lose auto focus or If you are still unsure then please call the office on 0844 856 99 87 and one of the team top of the camera. In addition modes such as landscape, automatic aperture control. will be able to answer any questions you have. You can also join us online for one of to full automatic, you may portrait, sport/action result our Introduction to Xperience webinars. find some preset or scene in the camera selecting more www.MarkCleghorn.com/Xperience-group Aperture The aperture value or f-stop relates to the size of the lens iris that lets light pass through to make the photo. Larger openings in the iris let through more light and have a smaller numeric value. Smaller openings restrict the flow of light and have higher numeric values. Whilst aperture is one of the three ways to control the amount of light • Swiss designed, award winning in photos, it also has a visible effect in pictures known lighting since 1962. as depth of field, large openings – small number – show limited depth of field and vice versa. • Integrate any speedlight using the Skyport Receiver Plus. • All kit comes with a 3 year UK warranty. • The most advanced technology including open platform High-Sync capabilities. • From beginners to professionals, trusted by photographers worldwide. • Huge range of Light Shapers. • Dedicated UK service centre. f11 - much depth of field f2.8 - limited depth of field THREE YEAR WARRANTY Shutter speed Shutter speed is expressed in fractions of a second, and is the time that the shutter is open and light is captured. Shutter speed also determines how motion of the camera or subject is recorded in the photos. If the shutter is only open for a short duration such as 1/2000th of a second then subjects are typically frozen in motion. Slower shutter speeds let in more light, and are often used for creative blur of moving subjects. FlashThe Centre 1/5000th sec - freezes 1/15th sec - slower shutter enhances movement LondonTF•Leeds•BirminghamC•Online www.theflashcentre.com © Lisa Visser ISO Metering ISO is a measure of how sensitive the camera sensor is to light.