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Technique & Comment from Angus Thomas

Shooting Tables for Wallpaper* Handmade

A quick post to pass on the link to the images we shot for Aberrant Architecture and the American Hardwoods Export Council at Benchmark a couple of weeks ago. The shoot was for the Wallpaper* Handmade exhibition in Milan. You can see the images here. Sadly they didn’t use the images from my local The [...]

Hello! Angus Thomas Photography reaches the pages of Hello Magazine

Regulars already know how we roll at Speedlighters & Angus Thomas Photography – pretty much hanging out with some of the the fastest movers. Well the lovely people at Hello Magazine have teamed us up with Stoke Park and some other well connected suppliers to put together a fabulous wedding competition. Yes – we are [...]

Single Light Portraits: Henry Juszkiewicz at #SMWF

As a portrait photographer I get to travel around alot and no two days are ever the same. This week I went to #SMWF – the Social Media World Forum – at Olympia to follow Henry E. Juszkiewicz, CEO of Gibson Guitars worldwide and as a bonus shot some single light portraits. Henry was speaking in [...]

Catchlight Bonkers – using the catchlight card on a Canon 580EX MKII

Catchlight Bonkers on a Canon 580EX MKII – Looks like a quaint English river winter scene doesn’t it. Oarsmen out on the river on a Wednesday afternoon. The coach is being shadowed by a photographer shooting for the school magazine. But wait – an even more familiar scene presents itself – at least to me. [...]

Steel Panther Ate My Camera

They didn’t really but the most fun you can have dressed and with camera in hand is shooting Steel Panther – I wont even try and bluff you by calling it work – what an awesome show they put on at Wembley last night. Full technical blog entry next week but for now a couple [...]

iPhone Photography

I am now wedded to iPhone photography.Having made the switch from Blackberry to iPhone 4s I can honestly say I have not missed one single feature of the BB – in fact remind me again what was the reason for having one? BBM possibly and push email but those advantages are marginal over the immense [...]

Concert Photography at Wembley Arena

Well Alter Bridge have been my top band since their creation and last night I finally got to shoot some concert photography at Wembley Arena courtesy of my friends at Duff Press. I first saw Myles Kennedy and Mark Tremonti at the Astoria in London on June 8th 2006 – another classic venue that has [...]

How To Photograph Fireworks

How do you shoot fireworks displays? A common question at this time of year and the answer is both simpler than you think and complicated at the same time. Simpler because if you understand the exposure triangle and ISO/Shutter Speed/Aperture then its obvious – complicated because its pretty counter intuitive if you don’t know your [...]

Remembrance Day

Today is Remembrance Day and ex-servicemen and supporters seem to be everywhere raising money for a fantastic cause. I came across two “old” soldiers manning their stand in the Savacenter at Calcot, Berkshire – Ray Povey and his wife Jill. Ray is an old veteran of the Royal Air Force having seen active service in [...]

Happy 80th Birthday Sir Terence Conran

I have spent a huge amount of time recently with my favorite company Benchmark Furniture – favorite because the staff from top to bottom are engaging, enthusiastic and very, very talented. The company was set up by Terence Conran and Sean Sutcliffe and last week I was there photographing furniture (about which more later) and [...]

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