Jake Hicks Photography: Never use green gels... unless... It's a good feeling to be back in the saddle and constantly having new work to share for a change 😃 Here I had some time left over and forced myself to do something I never do, use green gels. One of the beauties o
Jake Hicks Photography: Lost track of time... Apologies for the late post, I completely lost track of time. I've been working on a new project and that's to offer a new ZOOM online workshop for Amersham Studios here in London. Don't worry, it won't be one of those cheesy 'watch
Jake Hicks Photography: -Share-a-Shoot- We doin' this!?😃 Okay let's see your latest and greatest images in the comments below. And yes, if you tried out the Space-Blanket-Magic, then I really wanna see it! If you're new here, here's what we wanna see... 1. Post your image
Jake Hicks Photography: Anybody gonna try this lighting setup? Earlier this week I shared how I lit and shot this series of images of the beautiful model Bodil. If you missed it, then just scroll back on my page to the -Technique Tuesday- post on September 29th. Do you have any
Jake Hicks Photography: Wohooo 😃 That's another sold-out workshop! The 'BIG Studio lighting in small Spaces' workshop on October 24th is now completely sold out after my email on Monday. That really is incredible news and thank you so much to everyone that signed up, I kn
Jake Hicks Photography: -Share-a-Shoot- So how are we doing? Everybody have a good weekend? We had our Gelled Lighting workshop on Saturday and it was such a great day. We all got a bunch of really cool gelled lighting shots and got to hang out with a bunch of like-minded lighti
Jake Hicks Photography: Hear me out😅 So the new medium format digital Hasselblad actually seems pretty sweet. It's 50mp which is fine, incredibly compact and actually £6,000 (body only), which for a medium format digital is pretty damn impressive.... especially for H
Jake Hicks Photography: Guess the lighting! New lighting technique coming your way! Yup, that's right, next -Technique Tuesday- will be about how to shoot this setup and to help you along if you're trying to guess how this was lit before then, I'll give you a tip. The background
Jake Hicks Photography: Still one of my favourite setups!😍 I put this lighting setup together a couple of years ago when I had to shoot something very creative, in a very tight space. We wanted some dynamic lighting that highlighted shape and form of not only the mode
Jake Hicks Photography: -Share-a-Shoot- Back to regular ol' share-a-shoot this week and no live stream tomorrow. But I will still get chance to go through your shots this week, so if you'd like some feedback on your hard fought frames of photons, this is the place to post them.
Jake Hicks Photography: Do you need a lot of additional kit for projector shots? The beauty of using a projector in your photoshoot is that its effect is often very striking, and as a result, you tend not to need a lot of other elements going on in your image. Take this image he
Jake Hicks Photography: -Share-a-Shoot- -LIVE Stream Tomorrow - Tuesday September 15th 7:00pm BST -Community Image Critique Submit your shot in the comments below before the stream and we'll go through it together LIVE 😎 If you've not taken part before, here's how to
Jake Hicks Photography: You got lucky!!! So I had planned to roll out a bunch of ads trying to sell spaces on my Gelled Lighting workshop at the end of the month... turns out, that after my Live stream last Tuesday, the event sold out😅 I'd retouched all these beautif
Jake Hicks Photography: Did you miss it? You lot got lucky😅 Looks like the Live Stream the other night where I colour toned your images was popular. Guess we'll be doing that again then 😇 If you missed it, here's a link to stream... https://ift.tt/3hgJ1oI Re
Jake Hicks Photography: Excellent LIVE stream last night guys🎉😃 Thanks so much to all of you that attended and took part. I honestly wouldn't bother to do these streams unless you all got involved and asked questions and engaged like you do, so thanks again for turni
Jake Hicks Photography: - Colour Toning YOUR Photos - LIVE- Tomorrow 7pm BST! - Share-a-Shoot - Let's try something a little different this week. Tomorrow I'll be colour toning the images you share in this weeks -Share-a-Shoot-. I'll be doing it LIVE on stream here on FB and I'l
Jake Hicks Photography: Since when did I even have so much kit?!😅 Been a while since I've done one of these workshops and I was just packing everything up for tomorrow, only to find out that I have a LOT of kit! Oddly, I need to pack more kit for workshops than norma
Jake Hicks Photography: We're back! Yup, after months of no in-person events, talks or workshops, this Saturday will see us present my first in-person event since the world all went to hell. On Saturday I'll be running my sold-out Art of Projection workshop at Amersham Studios a
Jake Hicks Photography: -Share-a-Shoot- I hope you're all having/had a good weekend! (we have a Bank Holiday weekend here in the U.K. - the last long weekend of the year 😭). Here's a long exposure portrait of (all in-camera) of the director of Benny Hancock male grooming pro
Jake Hicks Photography: You know you've been shooting for too long when this happens...😅 Last week I posted a shot from this series and I mentioned that this project was a true pleasure to work on. One of the core reasons for this was that client was exceptionally ke
Jake Hicks Photography: A classic setup... evolved. You guys got lucky as this is actually the third time I'm writing this. The first two times, the diatribe got so abstract and esoteric with regards to colour theory that I decided to rein it back in. This is Facebook after all