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Mike McNamee

Mike McNamee is a Graduate Mechanical Engineer with 25 years of industrial experience and a Fellow of both the Royal Photographic Society and the British Professional Photographers Association. His career combines engineering, scientific imaging, photography and digital imaging technology, giving him a particularly strong technical understanding of the photographic process.

Mike has won numerous national and international awards, including the Struers International Award for his work in digital image analysis. His photography has been published and used worldwide in encyclopaedias, textbooks, scientific journals, calendars, magazines, newspapers and CD covers.

He has been involved with digital imaging since its early development and has lectured throughout Europe and America on specialised photographic and imaging techniques. He has also authored numerous reports, books, scientific papers and patents, and spent 15 years serving on the British Standards Committee for Engineering Ceramics as an Imaging Specialist.

Mike has extensive experience in photography education and digital imaging, having developed the MousePushers digital imaging courses through Pixelmix Digital Training and taught photography and digital imaging at Priestley College in Warrington. He was previously Editor of Digital Photographer and Creative Imaging and is currently Editor of Professional Imagemaker, the magazine of The Societies of Photographers. His ongoing work includes colour management and digital workflow, as well as the practical application of imaging technology in photography.



cycling photography

Photographing the Tour de France in Yorkshire: Lessons from the Road

By Mike McNamee Originally published following the 2014 Tour de France Grand Départ in Yorkshire. We stay with the wheeled...

Ian Cooks Olympics 2012

Inside the Olympics: Ian Cook’s Experience as a Professional Sports Photographer

By Ian Cook Societies member Ian Cook covered almost every day of the London 2012 Olympics, with the sort of...

Nikon D4 Ian Cook

Nikon D4 & D800 – Are They Game-Changers?

By Mike McNamee, with contributions from Ian Cook and Bob Bridges Originally published as a period review of the Nikon...

Polo Photography

How to Photograph Polo: Long-Lens Techniques for Fast-Moving Sport

By Mike McNamee Mike McNamee and friends go to see how the other half live – and discover the challenges...

Cricket Photography

Cricket Photography: Timing, Positioning and Capturing the Decisive Moment

by Mike McNamee One of the myths about sports photography is that you have to hold your finger down on...

Sigma 500mm f/4.5 Review

Sigma 500mm f/4.5 Review: Long-Lens Photography for Sport and Wildlife

Big it up with SIGMA By Mike McNamee Originally published as a period equipment review. In keeping with the sport...

Motorsport Photography

Sports Photography: Timing, Shutter Speed, Lenses and Technique

By Mike McNamee McNamee goes back to his roots and tries to remember what it was like sitting by a...