Pre-Wedding Photos at the Foot of the Alhambra Today I’m sharing a fantastic pre-wedding shoot in Granada. I recently had the chance to spend some time in this wonderful Andalusian city and photograph a lovely couple there. For me, Granada is one of the most beautiful cities in Spain. It has many very different areas, […]
Wedding Portraits in Seville This time I’m very pleased to share some photographs I recently took in the beautiful city of Seville. They are from a post-wedding shoot with a couple who were married in Zaragoza. The wedding ceremony itself took place in Zaragoza. The groom is from Zaragoza, while the bride is from Seville, […]
A Detailed Look at the Different Parts of a Wedding Today I’m going to explain the different stages of a wedding, what each one involves and why they are important. Sometimes it may seem unnecessary to take so many photographs, but nothing could be further from the truth. Photography is one of the best investments […]
Photo Sessions in the Dominican Republic During December 2014, I had the opportunity to travel to the Dominican Republic. December is already outside the main hurricane season, so the weather was fantastic for photography, with some incredible skies. The photographs were taken in several locations: at a hotel, in Punta Cana and on Saona Island. […]
Simple Steps for Dealing with Everyday Damage I’m going to explain how to disassemble an Elinchrom BX 500 Ri flash, an excellent unit from this brand which, in my case, I needed to open after several falls to the ground during outdoor shoots. After a number of falls, the mains power socket and the on/off […]
Something Important if You Don’t Want to Waste Time Although many of you use applications such as Lightroom to catalogue and organise your photographs, today I’m going to explain my own workflow for organising, classifying, storing and managing photo files properly. I like to know exactly where every file is at all times and, just […]
Fundamental Photography Concepts Today I’m going to cover a subject that can be quite confusing: DPI. As you may know, among the many fields stored in the metadata of image files (EXIF), there is one that records the DPI value of a photo. So, what exactly does that mean and what is it used for? […]
An Important Concept in Photography As Wikipedia defines it, the colour temperature of a light source is determined by comparing its colour within the visible spectrum with the light emitted by a black body heated to a particular temperature. For this reason, colour temperature is expressed in kelvin, even though it is not literally a […]
Let’s Not Use Unnecessary Colour Spaces A colour space is essentially the language used to communicate colour information in a photographic file, a printed image or any other medium used to display a photograph. As shown in the diagram, there are different colour spaces designed to describe image information. You can think of them in […]
The Eternal Question: Black and White or Colour? The eternal question: black and white or colour? I have often been asked why I hardly ever shoot in black and white. There is a reason for it, so I decided to explain my point of view. We are naturally drawn to things that surprise us, that […]
