Recent content by Chriswoolgar

I use Instaproofs. I think they have the largest free allowance of all the online galleries.

Many wedding photographers I know only use small cards. The reason being if a card goes down it limits how much they lose.

For many years I spent most of my photographic time shooting landscapes, buildings, wildlife. I avoided people like the plague and would wait ages for all the passers by to pass by the scene I was trying to shoot. I used to joke that "mountains never complain that you haven't caught a flattering...

For me, part of the challenge of still photography is overcoming the temporal shortcomings that the OP refers to, for example, getting dynamism into wildlife photography. I also remember from when I was studying photography, an article spoke about how video coverage of news events has an...

I have a 4k screen on a Dell XPS 15 and I've turned the resolution down to 1080. I use Lightworks for video editing and it is unusable at 4K because all the text and icons are too small to read.

For my wedding photos, I give my clients a personalised USB stick in a presentation box which I get from eBay. I figure the cost is negligible compared to what they're paying for the service and they appreciate the nice touch. I deliver all my shoots on a USB stick and never had feedback...

You can never have enough speedlights

I use Yongnuo triggers. They are very simple to set up and you can easily set up and control some complex lighting set ups. It was something I worried about when I started using them but now I rarely use my big studio lights and just use these with the speed lights. I like that you can...

I always think a photo is a photo, and all the "technical" rules apply regardless of genre. So I don't think you need to worry about becoming a Jack of all trades. What is important is that you develop your own style or voice so that every picture you take has that "Gerry" factor.