Lightly Motivated
I seem to be taking in training material at an accelerated rate. I don’t know if I’m just trying to compensate for a lack of shooting time recently (on which subject more later) or whether I’ve just got too much disposable income at the moment, but with books,
Arse-kicked by trees.
I have had my backside kicked by trees this evening. I’ve been doing some location scouting for the oft-postponed, never properly scheduled woodland shoot that I started planning months back and never got around to actually shooting. Let me tell you, woodland in summer, even late summer, is a lot harder to shoot in than [...]
The best camera
I recently came into possession of an iPhone 4 after my Palm Pre, which was an okay but not particularly brilliant device came to a smashy end whilst I was on holiday. Let’s just skip past the whole “you should have bought an Android phone” thing right now. I didn’t, for a whole bunch of [...]
Calling all photographic subjects
Dear interwebs, I need your help. I’m looking for photographic subjects in the north Lancashire area (though if you’re outside that area, give me shout anyway). If you fit into one of the categories below, get in touch with me. If someone you know fits into one of these categories, ask them to get in [...]
The [Jasmine] Star of the show
Most site issues should be resolved now, including the IE8 weirdness. Please drop me a comment or an email if not. Anyway, moving on. I’m a big fan of online training for photographers. I guess that’s mostly because I’m a work-from-homer, and I live in the back of beyond, so getting to training courses and [...]
Brief blog break
Behold Crystal, she of the room full of mirrors. We decided to do something a bit strange. Anyway, just a short note to say I’m going to be Not Blogging for the next couple of weeks (I know, nothing new, but I thought I’d say anyway). My Awesome Wife and I are going to be [...]
New toy
I have on my desk, dear readers, a new toy. It’s a Nikon fm2n, manufactured some time in the early eighties. Yes, that’s right, dear readers: it shoots film. Why on earth have I bought myself a film camera? When I managed to grab it from eBay for the princely sum of one hundred of [...]
Kat & Evan
I’m sat in the business centre of a Prague hotel at the moment, where I’m staying for the week for a work conference. Since I had a bit of coding downtime I decided that I’d better finish editing and uploading the last of my shoots from the London road trip, which was only a couple [...]
Trees and Tree climbers
Wimbledon common is possibly one of the most fantastic places I’ve shot yet. It’s full of dark, secluded places and twisty trees, little paths and gullies and all sorts of places that a photographer like me – on another day and with more lights available – could spend weeks shooting in (if you’re not clear [...]
Engagement Shoot: Melissa & Fabrizio
When planning last week’s trip to London, I decided that one of the shoots that I simply had to do was an engagement shoot with my friend Melissa and her fianceé Fabrizio. I’ve known Melissa for about ten years, and if memory serves me right she and Fabrizio have been together since about 2002 (I’m open [...]
Mirror, Mirror
A couple of weeks ago – I can barely remember that far back, come to think of it – I had the chance to shoot with Carol, who goes by the handle of Crystal Grenade on ModelMayhem. The idea for the shoot was to produce something similar to this chanel ad featuring Audrey Tautou. [...]
KYH: On the road, part V
For the final day of my road trip to London Town (which was on Tuesday; it’s now Saturday and I still haven’t gathered my brain together properly) I decided to have a day off from shooting. Instead of booking a subject or two to shoot with I put one lens on my camera (the Nikon [...]
KYH: On the road, part IV
A day later than I’d planned (actually two, now that I look at the clock) but the last two days have been so busy that blogging had to take a back seat. Anyway, I’m now back home, so I have chance to catch up a bit. On Monday afternoon (the morning was spent wandering around [...]
KYH: On the road, part III
The trouble with summer is that it’s warm. Turns out that this holds especially true during heatwaves, and it further transpires that London is not the best place in the world to look if you’re trying to find a gently, cooling breeze. The plan for yesterday was to have a morning of not doing very [...]
KYH: On the road, part II
Here begins day two of my London road trip. It’s going to be a blisteringly hot day from the look of it and I have a shoot booked this afternoon. Which probably means that I’ll be sweating like a donkey again. At least it’ll help me shed some pounds. Yesterday I shot an engagement set [...]
KYH: On the road, part 1
It’s 06:23 as I write this. I’m on a train that’s just left Warrington and is now accelerating on it’s way to London Euston. The sun is still just low enough for the light on the fields to be golden rather than white and just high enough to be exactly in my eye-line. I have [...]
And stretch
This evening, after wandering about in Morecambe, watching the solstice sun set (as I’d watched it rise this morning; strange how I’m still not tired), I decided to start a new project over on my Tumblr blog. I’m calling it my Visual Pushups project, after a phrase that Jay Maisel used to describe how he [...]
KYH: Visual Pushups
I’ve spent my last couple of lunch breaks watching the brilliant new class over at Kelby Training, “A day with Jay Maisel.” Jay is an American photographer based in New York. In the industry he’s well known for his photo walk workshops, as well as for his straight-talking, true-New-Yorker style. During the class, Scott Kelby [...]
KYH: UUPC promo shoot
As I said in my last entry, I shot some promotional photos for the Ubuntu UK Podcast team this weekend, since they were up in Liverpool for OGGCamp 10 and I figured it’d be as good a time as any for me to try my hand at some group shots. The experience taught me several [...]
Shooting for Freedom
See what I did there? OGGCamp 10 is currently on at the Black-E in Liverpool (or if you’re reading this after May 2nd 2010, was on). So I figured I’d take advantage of that and shoot some promotional material for The Ubuntu UK Podcast team, which… well, is quite a story, so I’ll tell it later, because it’s [...]
Sunlight, clouds, skipping, oh my
Unless you’ve been living under a rock or haven’t looked at my blog for the last few days, you’ll know that I shot a sports fashion set on Friday for Jenna Wilson, a stylist who found me through ModelMayhem. As shoots go it was pretty good. Everyone was quite relaxed, if a bit cold, and Jenna [...]
Quickly
I did a sports fashion shoot on Friday for a student stylist who found me through Model Mayhem (this social networking palaver pays off, you know). I like the way the shoot turned out; out of 500+ frames I’ve got ~375 picks (useable shots) and out of those I’ve got ~130 selects (frames that I [...]
