Recent content by dpurslow

big and white is the only way to fly IMPO

would love to see lots of photos of the studio - looking really sweet

There is an amazing wealth of training available on line for free, some really good stuff. Youtube and vimeo have some cracking videos, we have about 15 on vimeo alone, Then there are a few pay sites where you can get amazing photography training, the likes of kelby or Dave Zizers Digital...

Thanks Sarah, theeyes, I have the Damien McGillicuddy beauty dish and its beautifully put together, I use it for weddings all the time and have won a few gold awards with images shot with it. I dont know of another one. When I was looking for one I waited for months trying to find a cheaper...

my thoughts on this are you can spend your whole life worrying about people taking your photos and no matter what you do people will still find a way. Just brand them in a nice way and hope when they do they leave it on there, I see my photos all over the web and over 1/2 the time they have my...

Steve your moving in the right direction, one of the quickest ways to learn is actually just to keep shooting and then working out what you want to look differently in the photo, adjust something you think will work and then try again. softness and edge of light is something you need to be...

I have a turbo 2x2 that I am about to pop up on flebay which has had new cells installed about 4 months ago and only been used a couple of times since. - interested make me an offer.

not a flippent statement but I often shoot kids / babies etc with a background masking tapped to the wall and no stand. not professional looking I know but works. ciao dp

for groups bigger is better, for kids bigger is better imho. remember the larger the light source to the subject size, the softer it is. ciao dp

Hi there, I am a bit new to the forum and this post so sorry for my lateness, dont know if this helps but there is a light from cotswolds photo that I have and use in my studio, I did a video review of it a few months back - the light is still in use and I still love it If you have 30...

Hey there, let me mix things up a little, I have a light called a strobeam 500 Its a 500 ws monolight, runs of mains and battery and on battery it will last all day and then some. The light has a few limitations such as it only jumps whole stops but thats easy to compensate for. The light...