by admin | Dec 9, 2014 | Photography
Recently I had the opportunity to shoot two models using two different lighting set-ups and two different cameras in a large studio. It was the first time that I’ve used anything other than a Nikon for a long time and it made me realise how familiar I have become with one particular camera and how rubbish I was at finding my way round a different one (it was an Olympus). In the end we got some shots though and I was quite pleased with the fact that I could make the camera do what I wanted (after a lot of faffing about). The ones taken on the Olympus (with speedlites) have the spiral staircase in the background and the others are taken with my Nikon (and 1 large soft box plus a reflector)
by admin | Nov 4, 2014 | Information
Photographing kids is fun. They just want to enjoy themselves. They aren’t worried about how they look on camera. We just set up the background and threw them all together and started snapping away ..
by admin | Oct 14, 2014 | Information
A short while ago I took some photos of Sophie at her home. Her sister Bethany also wanted to be in the picture.
by admin | Sep 23, 2013 | Blog, Photography
On Friday I photographed Charlot in the new ‘studio’. Charlot wanted some new shots to update her website. She wanted them on a white background.
by admin | Sep 11, 2013 | Blog
I decided to learn to take ‘studio’ type photos. The reason being that I’d like (one day) to be able to take commercial photos (to make some money). Yes – it’s not (at the moment) about ‘art’ necessarily. It’s about justifying the amount of time and money invested by getting some sort of monetary return. So I ordered a ‘studio lighting kit’. At the moment I don’t have a studio but at least if I know how to use the equipment – and how to get the best out of it – I might know what to do in a studio should I ever find myself in one … Yesterday my new strobe lights arrived. There are 3 of them, with stands, umbrellas and softboxes plus a background stand and large backround sheets. I quickly set up one light and took a few pictures of my daughter Ruth. It took a while to get the exposure about right (and it helped when I put some batteries in the remote sensor – my excuse was that there were no instructions with any of the kit!) and eventually I got a couple of OK shots – Here’s one of the pictures ..
