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Beauty Lighting: How to Combine Hard and Soft Light to Make S...
A working beauty photographer’s guide to combining hard and soft light, beauty dish vs softbox, grids, negative fill and a clamshell setup you can copy, for skin that pops.
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Everyone Can Take a Picture. Not Everyone Can Hold the Room
What an agent, a Vogue visuals producer and a brand-side creative lead really look for in photographers now. There is a point in almost every creative career where the work alone stops...
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Beauty Photography Tips: Three Things I Wish I Knew Earlier
Beauty photography tips from Oliver Minnett’s Georges workshop, covering lighting, direction, working with a creative team, and using Sony and Profoto gear.
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How We Lit Karla Spetic's Australian Fashion Week Show with P...
We were invited by Karla Spetic to help light her runway, we chose Profoto's new LED lights for the job!
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Sony A7R VI First Thoughts: A Portrait Photographer’s Take on...
Sony has just launched the new Sony A7R VI, the latest camera in its high-resolution Alpha line, and I was lucky enough to spend some time with it earlier this week. I...
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Mobile Podcasting Setups Explained: From First Rig to Full Pr...
Mobile podcasting isn’t about shortcuts. It’s about picking gear that actually works, in the places podcasts actually happen. I used to chase the “best” setup. Turns out, the best setup is the...
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Rigging Up Your Sony Cinema Camera
Rigging gets a bad rap because a lot of rigs are built backwards. People buy parts first, bolt everything on, and end up with a camera that looks serious but shoots worse....
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What Makes a Good Photographer? A Portfolio Deconstruction
Clyde Vaughan Guest post by Clyde Vaughan — ahead of Clyde's talk on January 22: “How to create incredible images: A talk by Clyde Vaughan”. If you ask “what makes a good...
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The End of the Generator? Hands-on with the DJI Power 2000
We’ve all been there: you’re on a remote shoot, beautiful location, but you’re either scrambling to find a power outlet or lugging a massive, noisy petrol generator through the bush. We’ve been...
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Why 2026 Might be the year to change from DSLR to Mirrorless
Alright—let’s do the DSLR vs mirrorless thing properly. Not “on paper”, not “in theory”, but head-to-head on the stuff that actually matters when you’re out shooting. My name's Oliver Minnett, I'm Georges...
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