Commercial Photographer - House Music Producer - Pianist and Keyboardist - Drone Pilot - Impressive capacity for real ale

Leeds, England
Joined March 2009
Factory and Manufacturing Photography in Yorkshire Factory photography, often called industrial photography, is commercial photography of a working manufacturing site: the production line, the machinery, the people running it and the finished product, shot so a busin @ade_mcfade
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AI can help edit your business photos. Someone still needs to take them. AI has helped me with the editing. Photographing your actual people, workplace or project still starts with being there. @ade_mcfade
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How to plan a corporate photography shoot that gives you a useful image library A corporate shoot can do far more than update the staff page. Start with where the photographs need to work, then plan a varied set around those jobs. @ade_mcfade
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Humber Bridge to Thornwick Bay: why familiar places are worth another visit A September photography day at the Humber Bridge, Hornsea and Thornwick Bay: long exposures, new viewpoints and the value of returning to familiar places. @ade_mcfade
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How to Build a Business Brain for AI by Talking It Through Tired of generic AI answers? Ade explains how fuller voice prompts and a guided business interview can turn what you know into a useful AI knowledge file. @ade_mcfade
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Top-Up Headshots for Teams: When to Refresh Staff Photos and Why Consistent Headshots Matter to Your Brand A top-up headshot session is a return visit to re-photograph a team that’s already been done once — same background, same standard, just brought back up to date @ade_mcfade
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Best Yorkshire Dales Photography Locations: a practical guide The best photography locations in the Yorkshire Dales are not always the famous ones. They are the places that suit the weather you have, give you something decent in the foreground, and leave enough time @ade_mcfade
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How to Use AI to Get More Value From Your AppSumo Lifetime Deals Got a Graveyard of AppSumo Lifetime Deals? Put AI to Work on Them I’ve got to admit it: I am, and have been for some time, addicted to buying lifetime software deals on AppSumo. Some of them have been b @ade_mcfade
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Everything photographers need to know about their first drone in 2026. Drone photography is the use of an unmanned aircraft to capture aerial stills and video, and for many existing photographers it’s one of the easiest new skills to add in 2026 — provided your genre @ade_mcfade
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Exposure Triangle Explained: Aperture, Shutter Speed & ISO Exposure Explained: Why Every Camera Setting Is Just Filling a Glass The exposure triangle is the relationship between three camera settings — aperture, shutter speed and ISO — that together decide how bright @ade_mcfade
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AI vs Real Photography: Why AI Images Still Look Fake Why AI Still Can’t Fake Real Photography AI-generated photography is imagery produced by a model that has learned visual patterns from millions of real photos scraped off the internet, rather than a photograph tak @ade_mcfade
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One-to-One Photography Lessons in Yorkshire One-to-One Photography Lessons in Yorkshire: What Actually Happens on the Day One-to-one photography tuition is a private coaching session built entirely around you – your camera, your questions, and the thing you actually @ade_mcfade
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Context Is King: How to Give AI Real Context About Your Business Context is the background information an AI tool needs about your business before it can give you a tailored answer instead of a generic one. Without it, ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini treats you exactly like @ade_mcfade
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DJI Air 3S vs Mini 5 Pro: Picking the Right Drone for a 50m Railway Survey Why We Swapped to the DJI Air 3S for a 50-Metre Railway Drone Survey The DJI Air 3S is a mid-weight drone built for jobs where you need to stay well back from a subject but still come home with @ade_mcfade
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Why Corporate Headshots Come Out Better When You Bring Your Team Your headshots will look better with a few friendly faces in the room Here’s something most people don’t expect when they book a headshot day: the photographer is knackered by lu @ade_mcfade rfr.bz/tcfb933
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Top-Up Headshots for Teams: When to Refresh Staff Photos You had me round a couple of years ago. We photographed pretty much the whole team — great day, great results. So why would you bother getting me back? And if you did, would you need to @ade_mcfade rfr.bz/t80aa5d
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Snooker Loopy…. since the 70’s From Pot Black to Ronnie O’Sullivan: Why Snooker Hooked Me and Never Quite Let Go Direct answer: Snooker got its hooks into a generation through short, dramatic television like Pot Black, then kept people watchi @ade_mcfade rfr.bz/t6bdccb
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Stock Photos vs Professional Photography | Which Is Better for Your Brand? Stock Photos vs Professional Photography: How to Choose Images That Truly Represent Your Brand Direct answer: A stock photo is a pre-made image that any business can li @ade_mcfade rfr.bz/t87acde
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The One Thing Camera Brands Hope You Never Realise Stop Feeding the Kit Delusion New gear won’t make you a better photographer. More shots will. Here’s why the upgrade treadmill is the most seductive trap in any hobby — and how to step off it. @ade_mcfade rfr.bz/t1f9a35
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Wind, Waves and a Lime Kiln: Our First Nidderdale Photography Workshop Yorkshire Dales Photography Workshop: Wind, Waves, Lime Kilns and a Proper Chippy So what actually happened on our first Nidderdale workshop in February 2026? In short: bru @ade_mcfade rfr.bz/t252afe
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