I’ve had a couple of comments from recent clients who’ve discovered the scourge of the Digital SLR, dust on the sensor. This can manifest itself as dark splodges on your images, and will be particularly noticeable on smaller apertures. Here’s an example of a blank image (just a piece of paper up against the window): [...]

I spent the last week in August in the beautiful city of Paris, where I was very busy with some interesting photographic projects! The main purpose of the trip was to visit my friend Ian who lives there and to help him run a workshop on portrait photography. One of his specialties is engagement/celebration shoots [...]

Had a nice email from one of my recent training clients Mike earlier today which included a very kind testimonial about his training day with me last month. Here’s what he had to say.. [frame_right src="http://www.richardolpin.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/MikeLowe-0578-200x300.jpg" href="http://www.richardolpin.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/MikeLowe-0578.jpg" rel='gallery']Mike Lowe[/frame_right]

For me, one of the most satisfying aspects of being a teacher is when I see a student making real progress. That’s why it’s especially nice when I get repeat bookings for training as then I can see how they are putting their new skills into practice and then help to take them futher forward [...]

Just a quick update for those not on the mailing list.. (by the way, if you’re not, and you’d like me to add you, please just drop me a note using the contact page) One-to-One Training Wow, July was a busy month of training! I had at least a couple of students every week, including [...]

Over the past week I’ve had three new clients for my one-to-one training days, and what a cracking week we had with all three of them taking their photography forwards in leaps and bounds. I’ll put up a gallery of some of the students work soon, but in the meantime here are a couple of [...]

The first copies of my book arrived from the printer’s today. Very happy with the results!

I’m getting very busy with training requests at the moment…

I’ve had quite a few requests for individual training days coming in recently so my calendar is filling up quite fast for the next couple of months! Midweek slots are still looking pretty good but the weekends in July and August are filling up quite quickly so if you are interested in booking a day [...]

As I’m getting quite a few bookings now for my one-to-one training days I thought I’d upgrade the notes I’m giving to my students and get them bound up into a pr