Posts by Author: Joseph Parry
How a few pieces of paper helped me recover more detail in my pictures.
I am aiming this week at those of you first getting into photography and looking for a budget friendly way of improving your photos! You…
Bright skin, dark clothes, how to keep details on both
This week, I have a pretty well-known tip for the manual HDR types out there. Back in the days, landscape photographers used the shadow and highlight sliders…
How you can make a “canvas style” backdrop for £20!
Guys! Check this out! I own a fair few Gravity Backdrops and absolutely love them to pieces, but the problem I have is time. Sometimes…
Should we let our photographic failures rule us?
This week I wanted to touch on the subject of failure. Mistakes and times when everything just seems to go wrong. Is it possible to…
Can you improve your photography by reflecting on your life?
What drives you? This week I wanted to venture into the ideology of our personality traits (or mine) and take a look inside to see…
What’s more important in a model, beauty or skill?
What is a model? A set of skills? A beautiful aesthetic? A combination of both? Is there a bias in either direction? Is that bias…
Review: Photography Composition and Design
I recently had the pleasure of reading through Tavis Leaf Glover‘s latest book Photography Composition and Design. A book that aims to take the complex nature of composition…
DIYP reviews RGG EDU’s Jake Hicks gel class
I knew the second I had the email come through offering me the chance to review Jake’s latest tutorial that I was going to be…
No Snow? No Problem! This tip will let you create a snowy paradise anywhere!
I had a few minutes today to run through this cool idea to turn previous season shots into a snowy place of glory! It came…









































