Neil Turner Editorial & Corporate Photographer

26/06/2024

New blog post: It's that time of year again and I'm at The Championships a Wimbledon with an amazing team of photographers and editors

Beautiful trees in the grounds at The All England Lawn Tennis Club. Wednesday, 26 June 2024. ©Neil Turner Every year since 2014, apart from 2020 when we were locked down and the Championships didn&…

29/05/2024

New blog post about composition: Less is more... until it isn't

Every photographer and every artist you will ever meet has opinions about composition. A mere thirty-eight years into my career and some forty-six years after picking up a decent camera for the fir…

17/05/2024

The British Press Photographers’ Association has an exhibition running in London from the 24th of May until the 2nd of June. If you like great photography then you should definitely try to get along to The Bargehouse next to the Oxo Tower in London.

Posted on May 16, 2024By adthebppaIn Assignments, Assignments 2024, Photojournalism, Press Photography, The BPPAPhoto: ©Elliott Franks The British Press Photographers’ Association presents its annual ‘Assignments’ exhibition celebrating the best of press photography from its members. Curated ...

12/04/2024

Sometimes you get a brief from a client that makes you smile. Sadly, a lot of the briefs that you get could use a follow-up conversation

PE lesson photograph from a school prospectus shoot in Hampshire. ©Neil Turner I’ve called this post “that brief” because I will never forget an email that came to me from a regular client who simp…

18/03/2024

When this was shot this was my favourite type of catchlight. The shoot through translucent umbrella partnered with an oblong light panel to reflect a bit of light back in. I have changed my mind a hundred times since then. "What is your favourite light modifier?" A question from a photographer who has followed my blogs over the last twenty-plus years got me thinking....

When this was shot this was my favourite type of catchlight. The shoot through translucent umbrella partnered with an oblong light panel to reflect a bit of light back in. I have changed my mind a …

23/02/2024

New blog post: remembering how important the words juxtapose and exaggerate were in my early photographic career.

Not the original note to self but I have added it to a lens wrap for old time’s sake A few days ago I was at an event in Manchester run by Canon UK. While I was chatting with one of the many …

13/02/2024

This one is for Canon photographers who are considering buying a new flash - signed an EL5 convert

The oldie but goodie 600 EXII RT on the left meets the EL5 on the right. Many months ago I wrote about my experiences with the top-of-the-range Canon EL1 flash. It was heavy, bulky and expensive bu…

29/01/2024

A group of Archbishops and Bishops on a candlelit pilgrimage tour of Canterbury Cathedral. ©Neil Turner for IARCCUM. 26 January 2024 After a week of travelling to Rome and Canterbury with a group of well over fifty Archbishops, Bishops and a Cardinal I thought that I'd share one of my favourite pictures from the job. The summit and pilgrimage was organised by IARCCUM (International Anglican–Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission) where the Bishops in their pairs were commissioned by Pope Francis and Archbishop Justin Welby to work together to forge greater understanding and cooperation between the two churches in their respective diocese....

A group of Archbishops and Bishops on a candlelit pilgrimage tour of Canterbury Cathedral. ©Neil Turner for IARCCUM. 26 January 2024 After a week of travelling to Rome and Canterbury with a group o…

18/12/2023

New blog post: another year almost over so I thought that I'd hand out a few thank yous

A knitted Bishop is one of the decorations on the Christmas tree at the Lambeth Palace Library . ©Neil Turner. December 2023 As 2023 draws to a close I just wanted to look back at what has been a g…

12/12/2023

An old favourite: Flash plus ambient - my favourite way to shoot. © Photo Neil Turner, May 2011 OK, I admit it - when the mood takes me I follow links on the internet and find myself down some pretty odd/infuriating/entertaining rabbit holes. The other day I was suckered-in by a full-on click-bait link on Facebook with the oh-so-inviting headline…...

An old favourite: Flash plus ambient – my favourite way to shoot. © Photo Neil Turner, May 2011 OK, I admit it – when the mood takes me I follow links on the internet and find myself do…

29/11/2023

On holiday with a (new) compact camera and why I still carry one instead of using my phone. Spoiler alert: it's about control.

Crowds on the Rialto Bridge in Venice at dusk. © Neil Turner. Friday 24 November 2023 A little over five years ago I bought a new compact camera. I like compact cameras and I’ve never been a …

20/10/2023

Fun and games at high ISOs. Some thoughts on the options for noise reduction - yet another work in progress.

Some quick tests using different workflows with a low light high-ISO image. ©Neil Turner October 2023 For a very long time I have been an advocate of shooting RAW files and processing them through …

10/10/2023

Eight days in Rome and the South Caucasus with the Archbishop of Canterbury

St Peter’s Basilica with three Cardinals and no crowds ahead of an Ecumenical Prayer Vigil in St Peter’s Square. Photo: Neil Turner for Lambeth Palace. 30 September 2023 A couple of days ago I retu…

09/10/2023

Generative AI imagery for beginners

Should we be worried? A few years ago I shot a nice picture of two of the younger members of the family jumping over small waves at the seaside. It’s a lovely picture showing the innocence an…

06/09/2023

New blog post: Say Something Nice - how a few comments about the work we do really lifts us .

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun ©Neil Turner June 1994 Almost exactly three years ago I published this picture on my Instagram feed when I was using my time during Covid 19 to go through my archives and get …

28/07/2023

New blog post: Mirrorless for 12 months and counting

My brother’s car photographed in the New Forest National Park. 04 May 2023. Photo: Neil Turner Twelve months ago I swapped over from beloved Canon EOS 5D MkIVs to Canon mirrorless. In that ti…

29/06/2023

New blog post: Pile it high and sell it cheap? Please don't

Glenda Jackson, Labour Party Prospective Parliamentary Candidate. 25 September 1991. Photo: Neil Turner On the day that an image library licensed one of my historic pictures for just a little under…

22/05/2023

New blog post: Live Pictures for PR, corporate and NGO clients and their social media teams

This photograph of The Most Revd and Rt Hon Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury walking from Lambeth Palace to Westminster Abbey accompanied by another Archbishop and seven Bishops taking part i…

09/05/2023

My Coronation weekend was a bit different. On Saturday I started before 7am photographing The Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth Palace relaxing before the big day and then walked from Lambeth to the security zone near the Abbey with him, another Archbishop and no fewer than seven other Bishops before spending the rest of the day photographing the guests with him on his return. On Sunday we were at Canterbury Cathedral for the Coronation Luncheon, two services and a lovely Q&A with Justin Welby and the Dean of Canterbury. Finally on Monday we went to the Catching Lives Open Centre in the centre of Canterbury as part of the national Big Help Out.

28/04/2023

New blog post. Upgraded to Canon EOS R6 MkIIs already and the best bit about it isn't the camera

It was only last summer that I made the jump to using Canon EOS R6 bodies for the majority of my work and now I’ve swapped to the R6 MkIIs. I had listened to my own wisdom for a few months an…

25/03/2023

New blog post looking at the Canon EL1 speedlite flash as a potential "do it all" piece of kit

The EL1 (left) sits next to one of my trusty 600 EXII RT speedlites to show the size difference. When Canon announced their top-of-the-range flash unit, the EL1, I read the specification and though…

20/02/2023

New blog post: eleven days in Ghana doing some interesting work with plenty more Archbishops and Bishops

Cyril Kobina Ben-Smith, Primate of the Church of the Province of West Africa, Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury and Howard Gregory, Primate of the West Indies in one of the cells at Cape Coast…

27/01/2023

New blog post: I had a bit of an issue when shooting flash with Canon mirrorless and like a true geek I had a play and worked out what to do about it

Last summer I jumped into the world of Canon mirrorless cameras with a blend of caution and enthusiasm. I recognise that many of my colleagues made the DSLR to mirrorless switch way before I did bu…

24/12/2022

2022 is almost done so I just wanted to wish everyone a happy Christmas and a wonderful new year.

As 2022 comes to a close I just wanted to grab a few minutes to wish those who has visited my websites, clients past, present and yet to come as well as friends and colleagues a very merry Christma…

22/12/2022

New blog post: an ad appeared in my Facebook timeline talking about photographers suffering from burn-out. How common is it?

© Neil Turner. December 2016 Like almost everyone else, I get a lot of suggestions on Facebook for products that I might like to buy. Some are worthwhile, a few are comical and a lot of them are po…

04/11/2022

New blog post: the 'standard' lens is something that I have always had and used. As technology progresses they get replaced and updated

©Neil Turner. October 2022. Canon RF 50mm f1.8 mounted on an R6 body When I worked in a camera shop in the early 1980s we used to sell ninety percent of the camera bodies with a standard lens. Olym…

25/10/2022

New blog post: The BPPA's Associate Membership scheme and the concept of paying it forward...

I don’t actually remember the first time that I heard the phrase “pay it forward” but I know that it accurately summed-up something that was there in my mind from quite a young ag…

15/09/2022

New blog post: An update on my mirrorless journey...

It’s hard to know where to start when talking about the changes that shooting with mirrorless cameras have made. In the absence of anything profound I think that I will start with something t…

12/08/2022

New blog post: A Bishop called me "dude" - I'm quite pleased with that!

Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Dr Thabo Makgoba, Archbishop of Cape Town, at the end of the Closing Service for the 2022 Lambeth Conference in Canterbury Cathedral in the United Ki…

09/08/2022

New blog post: Mirrorless here I come. After a few weeks using Canon's small and light R6 I am convinced that's the way I want to shoot most of my work from now o

It’s surprising how much of the work that we all do could be done a little easier and with a little less stress if our cameras were silent. I have been shooting inside a Cathedral quite a bit…