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Jake Hicks Photography: But is it a great image? I personally feel this is a question that many of us overlook today when we're testing and trying out new ideas in photography. Remember those crazy HDR days? Remember those awkward composites we played with? Or, how about those m
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Jake Hicks Photography: -Technique Tuesday- Podlamania Podcast - Episode 033 Hugh Kretschmer -LINKS BELOW- In this episode, Wayne Johns and I speak to a truly remarkable 'photo illustrator'. Not sure what a 'photo illustrator' is? I assure you, you're not alone and in this podca
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Jake Hicks Photography: -Share-a-Shoot- Wow! We had some incredible -Share-a-Shoot- entries last week! I got chance to go through them all and leave feedback this weekend (so check back if you posted and didn't see my response) and seriously, the quality in here just keeps getti
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Jake Hicks Photography: Lockdown 2.0... Many of us here in the U.K. are embarking on a national 'hibernation' of sorts and yes, we're in yet another lockdown. Truth be told though, it's not as strict as last time and although there are certain constraints, I can still go out do
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Jake Hicks Photography: -Stay Inspired- Just clean and crisp images of beautiful humans (granted, it's 99.9% females) this week. LINK BELOW Today we look at the work of incredible Russian photographer Mikhail Tarasov. Truth be told, I can't find out too much about this guys work
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Jake Hicks Photography: Add smoke to your headshots... This was actually all Ryo's idea so I can't claim this to be mine, but she suggested that we use smoke in her headshots. I personally haven't smoked in many years, and I don't think Ryo does either, but she did have one of t
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Jake Hicks Photography: -Share-a-Shoot- Welp, what a weekend! We had some disappointing news here in the U.K. and we're told that England is sent into another lockdown for the month of November 😔 That is gonna be extraordinarily tough for many businesses including portra
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Jake Hicks Photography: What's your oldest lens that you still use? Here's a shot of the beautiful Ryo Love using one of my 'Big Studio Lighting in small Spaces' setups. This headshot was taken with my Nikon D850 on the gorgeous (now very old) 105mm f2 DC lens. The damn this is
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Jake Hicks Photography: -Share-a-shoot- I hope you guys all had a great weekend :D We had our 'BIG Studio Lighting in small Spaces' workshop on Saturday and it was huge success! So many great shots and so many great new people to meet (at a distance 😩). If you follow my In
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Jake Hicks Photography: Hierarchy of light... Earlier today I sent out an email to my subscribers that spoke about my lighting theory called 'hierarchy of light'. This is a teaching method that I developed during the course of me writing my 'Creatively Simple Lighting' workshop
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Jake Hicks Photography: Planes of light... In last nights stream we went through several community images that showed multiple different coloured gels on the body. The human body is an easy point of reference here as we're all familiar with the approximate size and shape of it,
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Jake Hicks Photography: -Share-a-Shoot- LIVE Community Image Critique Tomorrow - Tuesday Oct 20th 7:00pm GMT Yup, we'll be going live again tomorrow to go through your shots. We do this live once a month, so if you want share your latest and greatest work for us to go through an
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Jake Hicks Photography: My first online workshop... Yup, it finally happened and it's a sign of the times 😅 My first online workshop is now finally ready to share. 'Developing Your Personal Photographic Style' is an online workshop for around 10 people and I'll be go
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Jake Hicks Photography: Mr. Hancock rocking the power-pose! I hope you guys are good. We had a cozy live stream last night and I'd like to say it was easy for me.... but the photo gods kept giving black background or white background images to colour tone😂😂😂 Technica
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Jake Hicks Photography: -Share-a-Shoot- -LIVE COLOUR TONING SESSION- Yup, after the huge success of last months colour toning session, I thought I'd bring it back.😎 If you missed it, I'll be colour toning YOUR shots live on stream tomorrow Tuesday October 13th 7PM BST