on the set: Collectables
Twenty one on-set stills from Jacob Proctor’s short film ‘Collectables’, starring Christopher Adamson (Pirates of the Caribbean) and Amrita Acharia (HBO’s Game of Thrones).
the new apple store, covent garden
Featuring:
- 20 shots of Appley design gorgeousness
- an amusing conceit starring Steve Jobs
- lots of glass staircases
b&w details in 50mm
Featuring:
- cool 50mm detail shots of techy stuff
- fantastically shallow depth of field
- the D700′s built-in B&W mode (seriously)
- a sweet gallery of 36 images
on the set: last days
Featuring:
- zombie hordes
- decapitation
- buckets of fake blood
- in other words, another gruesome short from writer/director Ryan Haysom
these are a few of my favourite… iPhone photo apps – part 1
Featuring:
- four excellent iPhone photo apps
- a review and guide to each one
- dozens of screenshots and photos
- links to their App Store pages
on the set: not alone
An on-location set report on the first feature from Tristan Versluis, featuring behind the scenes and publicity stills and some beautiful 1950′s period cars.
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 [...]
what i did at the weekend
If this were a homework assignment I’m afraid I’d be lying in the title as I actually did this last weekend. However, it’s not, so I’m allowing myself a little poetic license in order to use a snappy title. Last weekend was one of my toughest assignments yet. I had to spend the entire day [...]
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 [...]
Westfield, or “Photography, blogging & the iPhone”
(This was going to be a post about some iPhone photos I took at Westfield recently, but started to become an iPhone post instead! Photos at the bottom…) So here at mge towers we’re still devoid of connection to the real world, er, I mean The Internet. My iPhone has been pushed to the limit [...]
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 [...]