With apologies to the model for scattering this to the Internet - though it should be anonymous enough. :) A little bit of light playing produced this picture the other day:


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I had a very good evening tonight. In a rare coincidence of hobbies, Slough Writers Group invited me to be their guest speaker. I had almost two hours to talk about my photography. I'm pleased to say it went very well.
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Following on from my previous post about Stu Maschwitz's blog posts, I wanted to share some before/afters of my recent edits, in particular my subtle (or not subtle) plays with colour. These come from the third of this year's lighting workshops at Imagez Camera Club; I did the edits a few weeks ago but Stu's blog encouraged me to revisit them ( Read more... )

Good fortune today, I happened across the blog of Stu Maschwitz, a visual effects guy and one of many commentators on DSLR video work. What fascinated me is his many posts about colour correcting for video/movies - all of which also applies to still images of course. I'm a bit of a geek for information about the human visual system too, so fell ( Read more... )

So having said in a previous post that I'm surrounded by models but not taking many pictures, a huge exception came along - Imagez Camera Club decided to run a mini fashion show to try some live-fire techniques ( Read more... )

It's the busy season again, which is to say, the camera clubs are waking up for another year. This time of year is especially busy for me; for the last few years I've been running a studio workshop at Imagez Camera Club. I say running, but in practice I very loosely set the structure and coordinate the many people who make models and kit happen. It ( Read more... )

I realise this is unfashionably late to be doing reviews of 2009, but now that we're into 2010 I feel it's time I did a photo review of last year. Also, it's a chance to start updating the blog again. Good intentions and all that ( Read more... )

It's about time I uploaded another photoshoot. A couple of weeks back I ran off to Paul's Studio again for a shoot with Nitr0gene and Voodoo Fae. In a somewhat unprecedented move, my efforts to get a makeup artist actually succeeded for once, so we had Leanne Bisson on set to do makeup ( Read more... )

Busy day today. In a bit of a late decision, I decided to grab the day off work and head up to the last day of Focus On Imaging 2009. I haven't been to Focus for a few years, but I'm pleased to report this time was more lively and had better seminars going on.
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Another photo post? Yes really - three on the same day.

Having said in an earlier post that I don't usually get to take photos at the Imagez Camera Club studio workshops, I did grab a shot on a borrowed Canon 50D two weeks back ( Read more... )