adventures in softboxing: sunshine and daisies
Featuring:
- off-camera flash lighting with a softbox
- experiments with white balance and gelling
- daisies through a wide angle lens
- hints and tips and where I went wrong
fotomoto: prints and e-cards made e-asy (and 50% cheaper!)
A few photoblogs I visit, such as Daily Dose of Imagery and Chromasia, have recently added the Fotomoto toolbar to their front page and seeing as it’s pretty damn good, so have I. It’s currently free and requires nothing but plopping the Javascript into the HTML code for your photoblog installation. There’s also a little [...]
OMG! iPhone gallery updated!
I wasn’t completely happy with the iPhone gallery I started a few weeks ago. Two reasons really – wasn’t aesthetically pleasing any more, and had an annoying (none-existent) content management system that meant I had to re-upload the whole gallery every time I wanted to change one picture.
I changed over to the latest version of [...]
how my gran won a photofriday
Occasionally I submit an entry to Photofriday – depends on the subject matter and if I have anything which is worthy! Last week the subject was ‘Grandmother’ so I submitted my favourite shot of my gran, Winnie. I shot it a few years ago with a borrowed Jessops flash, top-mounted (this was before the days [...]
hitting the street with the lumiquest softbox III
I got a LumiQuest Softbox III last week and wanted to put it to use straight away. Its main appeal to me is as a close in soft lighting source for portraits, useable handheld if necessary with no real awkwardness. I could use it at events to get awesome off-camera lit portraits anywhere, worlds away [...]
doctor strobist (or how I learned to stop worrying and love the light)
I first picked up a DSLR (or indeed any SLR) in 2005 when I bought my Nikon D70, and for the next 3 years flash lighting scared me witless. In a medium where light is everything, being unwilling and unable to get a grip on how to light with flash was sort of an embarrassment, [...]
get over your fears
I’m always interested in reading about folk that are successful doing creative things that they love to do (as opposed to punching a well-paid but tedious, soul destroying time card just for the $$$) – a couple of my favourites are David Hobby’s Strobist site, Chase Jarvis’ blog and John Keatley’s blog (yes, they’re all [...]
error!
Haven’t done much in the way of photography recently, but I have been tinkering with my site again!
I put a lot of the code for my websites together myself, either by pinching bits from other places and reverse engineering it to learn how it works and fit it to my own design, or editing [...]
