Posts by Author: John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
It’s amazing what you can do with cutlery, a glass ball and a perforated metal sheet
Mar 28, 2016
John Aldred
Howard Ashton-Jones has often spoken about the importance of personal work outside of his main work as the official photographer for Scottish Gymnastics. Personal work allows us…
Save Photoshop files up to 20x faster with just a couple of clicks
Mar 25, 2016
John Aldred
PSB files are Adobe’s answer to the 2GB file size limit of PSD files, the standard Photoshop Document, and something which most photographers will likely never have…
Photographing Kenya’s rich and powerful glamorous grannies
Mar 16, 2016
John Aldred
This is the story of Kenya’s League Of Extravagant Grannies, who were once corporate and government leaders in the 1970s. They now live the retired high life…
Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer coming soon to Windows
Mar 15, 2016
John Aldred
Mac owners have had the opportunity to make use of applications Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer for almost a year now, but that the software has only been available for…
World’s first feature length “first person shooter” movie coming soon, to a theatre near you
Mar 9, 2016
John Aldred
Shot almost entirely on GoPro cameras, and several years in the making, Hardcore Henry is hoping to set a new standard in action movies. Described…
Joe McNally offers an insightful behind the scenes look at a garage photo shoot
Mar 8, 2016
John Aldred
Joe McNally is one of the photographers I first started stalking following when I decided to start shooting portraits, and his books, The Hot Shoe Diaries…
Sony to introduce their own wireless radio flash trigger system
Mar 8, 2016
John Aldred
Sony has announced plans at the WPPI2016 trade fair in Last Vegas to release a “wireless lighting control system to meet the growing demands of…
Photographer blends reality with CG to produce amazing surreal landscapes
Mar 7, 2016
John Aldred
We’ve all had that feeling of being in a beautiful or dramatic landscape, wanting to capture it, and then found it was missing just a…
Award Winning “Legend Behind the Lens” photographer, Gary Braasch dies on Great Barrier Reef
Mar 7, 2016
John Aldred
Reuters have reported that American photographer Gary Braasch, has died on Monday while snorkelling at the Great Barrier Reef. Gary had spent 40 years working for…
Canon EOS 1300D specs leaked and it’s basically a 1200D with WiFi
Mar 7, 2016
John Aldred
Looking at the specs for Canon’s not quite yet officially announced Canon EOS 1300D (otherwise known as the Rebel T6), you might be thinking that…