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We sat down with professional photographer and former BBC producer Sue Flood, who worked on the award-winning series The Blue Planet to find out more about her photography in some of the coldest places on Earth…Plus we have a signed copy of her book up for grabs!

Irving Penn was instrumental in the way we take portraits today. He was one of the first photographers to shoot his subjects against a neutral background in the studio, rather than setting them with props, and I admire Penn’s portrait work because of his ability to convey something about his subject, his ability to bridge the gap between the photographer and the sitter and his ability to create stunning compositions that have stood the test of time.

Yes, I imagine there are a handful of industrial photographers in this world who wish to take photographs of the inside of blast furnaces and/or incinerators from time to time, but there are many more “normal” photographers who wish to use long-exposure techniques for artistic and creative purposes. For these photographers, the solution is the NDx1000 filter.

Hopefully you’ll have already read the Simple Glass Still Life post on the blog. If you haven’t, you might want to, or this one will make very little sense. Following that post there were several requests for a more detailed step-by-step description of the Photoshop process used to create the digitally manipulated images, so that’s what this is. Don’t say we never listen!

Hopefully you’ll have already read the Simple Glass Still Life post on the blog. If you haven’t, you might want to, or this one will make very little sense. Following that post there were several requests for a more detailed step-by-step description of the Photoshop process used to create the digitally manipulated images, so that’s what this is. Don’t say we never listen!

Hopefully you’ll have already read the Simple Glass Still Life post on the blog. If you haven’t, you might want to, or this one will make very little sense. Following that post there were several requests for a more detailed step-by-step description of the Photoshop process used to create the digitally manipulated images, so that’s what this is. Don’t say we never listen!

Hopefully you’ll have already read the Simple Glass Still Life post on the blog. If you haven’t, you might want to, or this one will make very little sense. Following that post there were several requests for a more detailed step-by-step description of the Photoshop process used to create the digitally manipulated images, so that’s what this is. Don’t say we never listen!

It’s hard to say exactly when social media started, a few years ago I guess, but it seems it’s been around forever already. There are literally dozens of similar sites where you can chat, share photos and tell the entire planet what you had for breakfast. Or take a photo of your breakfast and upload it.

I was in Norwich last week to present my latest lighting seminar. It was a full house with 14 photographers all wanting to know more about lighting.

We saw an outstanding reponse to the first WEX Gallery competition of 2011 and we’re pleased to report that we received the highest level of entries in the history of the comp! With such a high standard of images submitted this month, it was by far one of the most difficult we’ve had to judge. Here are the winning photos for January 2011…