Posts by Author: Alex Baker
Alex Baker is a portrait and lifestyle driven photographer based in Valencia, Spain. She works on a range of projects from commercial to fine art and has had work featured in publications such as The Daily Mail, Conde Nast Traveller and El Mundo, and has exhibited work across Europe
How to create movement in your portraits using this circular stretch effect in Photoshop
Apr 22, 2022
Alex Baker
Online photography groups are one place that can be a goldmine for inspiration. When you have time on your hands or simply want to try…
Police and firefighters ‘rescue’ trapeze artist during a photoshoot in mistaken emergency
Apr 21, 2022
Alex Baker
First responders Police and Fire rescue teams were called to a scene in Rochester, New York in the early morning when a member of the…
A great Speedlight, but is it worth the upgrade?
Apr 20, 2022
Alex Baker
Godox announced the updated version of their square-headed Speedlight the V860III last summer. Having an extra portable flash unit in your bag is always a…
7 tips for taking your street photography from beginner to confident status
Apr 13, 2022
Alex Baker
Street photography can be understandably a little intimidating for beginners. You don’t want to be the photographer that goes up to people and sticks a…
Use this Hollywood colour designer trick to elevate the emotion in your photographs
Apr 12, 2022
Alex Baker
The use of colour in most movies is not random. It’s actually all thought through and planned far in advance of shooting, in order to…
Ukrainians discover Canon DSLR in camera array of dismantled Russian drone
Apr 12, 2022
Alex Baker
The military of defence in Ukraine has recently released a video that shows a Ukrainian soldier dismantling a Russian military surveillance drone. Standard stuff perhaps,…
Create this amazing colourful effect entirely in camera using just 3 lights and gels
Apr 12, 2022
Alex Baker
How do you make white light? No, that isn’t a trick question. Most of us are fairly familiar with using different colour temperatures and…
This is how that viral Tesla drone video was shot
Apr 12, 2022
Alex Baker
Last week we shared a video produced for the car manufacturer Tesla that showed some incredible footage of a first-person view drone flying through the…
See the best images from the Storm photo of the Year Awards
Apr 7, 2022
Alex Baker
The winning images from the Storm Photo of the Year Awards have been announced. All the images were taken over the course of 2021,…
How to handle clear blue skies in your landscape photography and make incredible images
Apr 5, 2022
Alex Baker
“As landscape photographers, we often dread seeing a week-long clear sky prediction for our photography trips…” goes the voice-over at the beginning of this video….