you have to start somewhere
I’m on another short film doing stills this weekend – another freebie but I’m fortunate enough to have another stream of income right now so I can afford to do a few freebies for friends. It’s a great source of experience and gets me some more shots for the portfolio. Plus, in the past these [...]
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
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 [...]
daddy or chips? comic or sweets? cropped or uncropped?
Whenever I have a big decision to make, a clear choice between ‘a’ or ‘b’, my mum likes to remind me of my habit as a 3 or 4 year old toddler of storming out of newsagents empty handed, crying my eyes out and having a right old hissy fit because I couldn’t choose [...]
back to reality, and the making of ‘Vivid’
It’s been a pretty crazy few weeks for me and the only reason I managed to keep posting new shots on my glass eye was by posting about 10 days worth in advance, set to auto-update, before I went away! I hope you’ve been enjoying them, and with any luck I should be able to [...]
the right kit for the job
At this very moment I’m heading away for just over a week on location on a film called Vivid. I already shot some days on it last weekend in London but the bulk of the action takes place in a country house in Dorset, which is where we’ll be based.
When it comes to packing for [...]
making ‘this glass is half full’
Today I posted a new image from a local pub that at the time I took it was a really nice photo as it stood. Really nice soft natural light, nice depth of field and sharpness with the 50mm f/1.8 lens, simple subject matter, popping colours, and beer. Perfect. :)
I did give it a little [...]
