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Macro night

It’s a bit like the model night, only smaller. So small models I hear you cry, well no. It’s close up shots of things.

This time I took my setup to the hall (light tent, flashes, laptop and camera), set up on a table and shot away……

Pentium

Memory

big ring

small bracelet

6p

The setup is no different from what I’ve used before, but it’s nice to have the time and space to set up the shoot. Also it’s nice to share and pass on knowledge about the setup. One thing is for sure, I really could do with a Macro Ringlite (well specifically the Canon MT24EX Macro Ringlite). Odd colours are from using a mixture of cool and warm up filter gels over the front of the 580MkII flashes.

Thanks to the members of Yardley Photographic society who came along 🙂

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Found one

As someone who sells (occasionally) though Alamy it’s not very often you get a chance to find a sold image. Well today one popped up and the hunt began. Well I asked on the Alamy Forum if anyone had spotted and someone found it using google!

Anyway, the artical……..

Observer

I’ve edited body of text out as it’s copyrighted (the banner probably is as well, but I don’t think that’s too bad to copy!)

Observer

So there you are, a bit of self promotion 🙂 (still looking to find a printed version of it)

The full (web) article was written by Rowan Moore and can be found on the Guardian/Observer here.

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Portrait Night

I don’t really photograph people, well except for strangers in the street and the family – so you’d have thought tonight was the night for me to avoid at Yardley Photographic Society as it was Portrait night (run and studio gear provided by Martin Coffey & Dave Boyce). But I thought i’d go along and have a go.

The old school hall does convert rather well into a temporary studio (at this point I should have took some shots of the setup for the purpose of this blog – I didn’t so use your imagination about what a temporary studio in an old school hall looks like).

The setup was a high-key type (white background) and four Elinchrom flash heads. The front lighting setup used Elinchrom BXRi 500 style units (not too sure about the exact models) and the white backdrop was illuminated using a couple of older Elinchrom D Lite style units.

The flashes are triggered using Elinchrom Skyports (which are little hotshoe based triggers). So how did I get on then?

Actually I enjoyed it, we had a mixture of models to shoot (I will get the names and post them!)……..

Yardley Photographic Society - Portrait Night

Yardley Photographic Society - Portrait Night

Yardley Photographic Society - Portrait Night

Technical data for those that are interested: All shots taken using a Eos 5D MkII, EF24-105 f/4 L, ISO200, F/13, 1/125.

Apologies for those that hate high key and clichés. I enjoyed myself and that’s the important thing.

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A month off blogging

Not actually planned, but it’s how it turned out. Anyway not really been up to much, apart from the 4amProject trip to the Central Library. As you’d expect I took a fair few images (which are on my Flickr link). As well as the still images I tried a bit of video……

Enjoy!

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