Lighting Practice!

Tonight I decided and prearranged with my favourite model to do a little shoot in my garage. It was pretty cold, I think her toes are still numb...oops! Hope she knows I love her for it!
I basically borrowed two 580ex11 speedlite flashes with pocket wizard triggers and an orange flash gel. Visitng the SWPP made me decide to have a bit of a practice with off camera flash. Very tricky in the dark to focus so I did get alot of terrible photos, and sometimes one or both of the flashes didn't trigger which I don't understand and need to figure out, even when it flashed my camera didn't register it. As you can see I've tried to do all manner of lighting styles. Feedback would be much appreciated!










This one's just 'cause I caught the facial expression and loved it. I'm weird, I know! :)

Krystal

I decided to take some photos of my best friend Krystal today, I haven't see her for ages, she's one of my favourite models! I've had a bit of trouble with my digital camera today, I think he AF is broken on it, I tried two different lenses but it didn't work on either. Even more annoyingly, I couldn't manually focus it either, all apart from these images are out of focus. Krystal's coming round tomorrow evening for a bit more photography fun so hopefully I can find out the problem, maybe.

SWPP

So I've just back from my first SWPP convention. It was awesome, truely inspiring, I've got so many ideas floating around in my head now. I did take some reportage photos around the hotel where the convention was being held and in Hammersmith but you'll have to wait for them, they're on my Canon-A1! Above is the only photo I took on my digital, the view from our hotel window. :) Photographers I enjoyed the seminars of are. John Denton, Richard P Walton, Brett Harkness, Damian McGillicuddy & The Yerbury's. Check them all out, they're great and I can't believe I'd never heard of them before this weekend! I'm off to bed now as it's been a long weekend, with late nights and I'm now shattered!

Mist.

I haven't done anything in such a long time, I'm quite embarrassed. But, in my defense, I have been really poorly with the flu which turned into a chest infection that earnt me a night in hospital, and now I think I have a cracked rib. Boo Hiss! I managed to take a couple of misty photos around my neighbourhood, not amazing but it's just to prove I have tried to photograph something! Anyway, as it's New Years eve, I should take this opportunity to wish all my followers all the best for 2011, have a good one tonight if you're going out!!

Lifestyle.

I've never really done any lifestyle photography before, just this one image for my friends portfolio, and at Saul Isaac, that's one of the services they provide, using natural and off camera flash lighting. So, i took it upon myself to do some at Wollaton Park, I thought it'd be good practice, especially since I bought a speedlite transmitter to play around with some off camera flash. This is Jen, she's a friends girlfriend, we know each other obviously but not very well and this is the only time we've spent alone together, I'm trying to push myself out of my comfort zone and striking up interesting conversation with people I don't know very well I can find quite hard. I figure it's time to make the most of this opportunity that I've been given at Saul Isaac and push myself more, it's the only way I'll get better.
I've assisted on two lifestyle photo shoots, both in Wollaton Park, one was a pre-wedding shoot and the other was a family of three. On the latter I took a few photos, I'm sure none of them will be used as the buttons on the cameras confused me.... there's just so many on the big dslr's!! But even so, it was nice of Dan to give me opportunity to try and get to know the camera. And on the pre-wedding shoot with Carl I learnt some off camera flash, so in this blog I've tried to put what I've learnt so far into practice, I took alot more photos and probably took longer than the guys at the studio but practice makes perfect, and Jen was a great model!!

Another Place.

So Phil and I took a little trip up to Liverpool yesterday for a Gogol Bordello gig that his aunty bought us tickets for, the gig was amazing (thank you Sara!!) To relieve the ever-so slight hangover I had we went for a stroll down to Waterloo Beach for a spot of fresh air and photography. I wasn't really aware of who Antony Gormley was, sometimes I walk around with my head in the clouds and it takes me 3 years to realise that I did actually know who he was when I took the photo above in London for his Event Horizon in 2007. Needless to say, it's not a very good photo but the ones below are (even if I do say so myself)! Here is Another Place... Enjoy!!

Jen

This is my friend Jen, I'd not seen her for a while so wondered if she'd like to pop round for a little photo shoot. Here's some of the pics I took of her! Isn't she pretty?!
Styling, make-up and photography by myself.