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Category Archives: Photo Retouching

Last Minute Christmas Gift – Photography Tuition

Here’s a great last minute Christmas gift idea, give a photography tuition voucher. I’ve been doing one-to one photography tuition sessions for about ten years now. Learn how to stop that camera bossing you around and how to control it and understand light and composition better. Order at michaelpowell.com      

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Photography Tuition Voucher – last minute Christmas gift

A special Christmas gift: Photography Tuition Voucher – How to take better pictures Almost everyone owns a camera these days but you will never get consistently good pictures until you take control and understand its potential and limitations. With a little help from me, a professional photographer with over 30 years experience, you will understand […]

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Sunday Times Business Portraits

Here are some tear sheets from The Sunday Times featuring various Business portraits. The first is Sian Thomas who has started up a translation business in Union St, a co-working workspace in Sheffield. Funnily enough the second portrait of Tom Stayte of Square Share was taken a few weeks before just five yards from that […]

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More retouching for the times

This was interesting! Marc Aspland, sports photographer extraordinaire at The Times journeyed to Liverpool to photograph javelin champion Goldie Sayers mentoring heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson. Each thrower had just three throws for Marc’s benefit and the athletes had to be threaded together to show their different styles. I have done this sort of composite before and it is […]

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Winter Olympics retouching for The Times

©Copyright Marc Aspland/The Times   The Times Sport Photographer Marc Aspland is busy working hard in Sochi. On Sunday he called me to ask if I could produce a multiple exposure montage of Team GB’s snowboard slopestyler Billy Morgan for the next day’s paper. I did two versions, the first using all 25 frames Marc […]

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