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Should I do a photography course?
Do you think it would be helpful for me to do a photography course? I get asked this question in
3 April 2023
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Blogs
Welcome to our blog! Blog posts are our free photography features, articles and information, covering a wide range of photographic topics. Typically, these will be in written form, but some also have embedded videos in them. Please take a look arround.
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Under Construction – PLEASE READ THIS!
Welcome to “Making Photos” the new photography resource brought to you by Ian’s Studio / Ian M Butterfield. We are just
2 January 2022
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YourPortfolio – New Portfolio Hosting Site
Where do you publish your photos online? On your website? Twitter? Instagram? Flickr? Well, there is another player in the
14 July 2021
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Before & After Challenge
I’m starting a new photography challenge – it is called my “Before & After Challenge”. The aim of the challenge
9 April 2021
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COVID-19 Notes & Policies (UPDATED 8 April 2021)
It’s a constantly evolving set of notes but if you want to see our COVID-19 Notes and Policies you can
8 April 2021
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10 Years of Ian’s Studio
On Friday 26 Feb, Ian’s Studio celebrate its10th Anniversary. To celebrate I posted a series of images to facebook to
28 February 2021
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A roadmap to re-opening
Yesterday Prime Minister Boris Johnson laid out his roadmap to easing lockdown. This is a welcome development as finally, it
23 February 2021
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Ian’s Photo Bingo Challenge
Most of us will admit to setting a goal to ‘do more photography’ as one of our New Year’s Resolutions.
19 December 2020
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Lockdown20 Challenge
From Thursday 5th November through to (hopefully) Wednesday 2nd December, England will once again to be subject to a national
2 November 2020
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Ian’s Studio is open… well partially!
This blog post was planned for Friday/Saturday last week – to announce that I’m fully open and about to set
3 August 2020
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Top 5 tips for Macro Photography
This blog post is also available as a video blog – https://youtu.be/aVzsyoUkrgo – you can also watch below: https://youtu.be/aVzsyoUkrgo Macro photography is
5 July 2020
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LR Classic – Sliders vs Curves – why I will never edit my images the same way again!
This blog post is a video blog – https://youtu.be/B2IdG5eKLAg– you can also watch below: Last week Garry Platt sent me, what
21 June 2020
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What is chimping? Is it good or bad?
This blog post is available as a normal blog post (scroll down and read) and also as a video blog
14 June 2020
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The A-Z of photography?
I was planning a series of blog posts called “The A-Z of Photography”. 26 posts one for each letter of
7 June 2020
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The Seven Deadly Sins of Photography 7: Lust
And so we come to the seventh and final blog post in our series on the seven deadly sins. This
31 May 2020
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The Seven Deadly Sins of Photography 6: Wrath
Wrath can be defined as “extreme anger”. Let’s look at how anger and extreme anger can affect us as photographers.
24 May 2020
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The Seven Deadly Sins of Photography 5: Pride
As we move on to our fifth deadly sin – Pride – we need to define this carefully. By pride,
14 May 2020
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The Seven Deadly Sins of Photography 4: Sloth
We continue our look into the Seven Deadly Sins of Photography. Today we are looking at Sloth. The dictionary defines
7 May 2020
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