It’s always nice to see your pictures in (s)print
I had a nice parcel land on my doorstop today.
Sprint, the magazine of the TVRCC, saw some pictures of a private session I did with Julian Barter back in March 2010 and they made enquiries around using some in their magazine.
A few emails and phone calls later and here they are in a 6 page article 🙂
1 front cover and 2 double spreads…..not bad 😀
Reproduced with the kind permission of the TVRCC
Here’s a pic of the main TVR that I personally edited in prep for large format printing 🙂
Separated at Birth 7
Bit of weekend humour for you.
Separated at birth….? Papa Smurf
Ansel Adams
Fashion shots with Katie Green
I’m just back from attending a workshop today from fashion photographer Jon Grey which was hosted by the BIPP.
In the afternoon we had three basic lighting set-ups and pro model Katie Green with us. I tend not to lighting everything when doing beauty portraits and usually choose a shallower depth of field (f/2.8 to f/11 max). So this was a different experience for me photographing someone at f/20 with strobes at every angle.
Below are a couple of shots from the day.
The Bowens Gemini gear we were using was proving to be fairly problematic which is unusual for a brand leader.
Interestingly my favourite is the first image below in which when the main light failed to trigger, but the rear screen and reflectors did the job.
The end result was the emotive style I would choose to do when doing a fashion shot thather than nuking the subject….. unless it was a product shot ;o)Less is more and all that 😉
Katie is the face for Ultimo’s D-G Range and was a superstar.
She did her own makeup and was very professional from start to finish. She kept going even when the temperature soared with all the strobes firing all afternoon.
Her website and link to her agent is here: https://www.katiegreenofficial.com/Picture of my dad
A couple of days back I posted about the abstract picture I made for Signature, the hairdresser shop in Woking, Surrey.
I’ve been snowed under at the moment and so my dad offered to frame the picture for me, which he does now and again if I’m flat out.
It also gave me a chance to drop off a picture I’d made for him to say thanks for helping me out over the last few months and because, well, he’s my dad and that’s reason enough
)His picture was one he took from the tiller of a scooner sailing at full tilt.
He likes his sailingHe dropped round the picture last night and we chatted for a bit. We talked a bit about the Workshop I’ve recently arranged for Bert Stephani and how it’s about lighting.
Dad used to be a keen film snapper when my brother and I were young (lots of family albums), but I was trying to explain layered lighting and how it’s controlled.I could see the slightly vacant expression coming back at me, so I decided a practical was in order to explain what I was twittering on about
So I sat him down, set up my folding backdrop, one light stand, flash and umbrella and gave him a 5 minute demonstration.
He quite liked the results and I also got some cool shots of him for prosperity.
So, here’s my dad being a good sport while his youngest got all wide eyed and rattled on at 100mph.The look you only get from a father to their crazy son:
I sent it to him and he emailed back thanking me, but asked who the wrinkly old man in the picture was.
Comedian😉
