Quick peek
From today’s shoot with models from the Lancaster University Fashion Society. It looks rather more contrasty here than it does full-size (this is a quick, not final, edit).
KYH: Quite Possibly Mad (Part 2)
Been a funny couple of weeks. By funny, I mean ‘odd,’ not ‘ha ha.’ I’ve felt like I was constantly chasing my tail with the day job and as a result I’ve felt like I wasn’t doing photographer-me any justice or giving him any time to breathe. And blogging? Forget it it. I’d promised myself [...]
KYH: Quite Possibly Mad
That there, ladies and gentlemen, is a Profoto Pro7 head, attached to a Profoto 7B pack. At f/36 (pretty much its lowest setting). That’s ~£3,000′s worth of gear all told, and I’ve rented it (not for £3,000, it should be noted) for a location shoot on Sunday. Which could be great, or it could be a [...]
KYH: Industrial Fashion Shoot (part 2)
This was one of those shoots that could have gone either way: something cool or a complete disaster. Thankfully, we came down on the cool side of the fence. Lancaster’s Lune Industrial Estate is a maze of old, crumbling brickwork, security fences, rotting portacabins and new shiny industrial units, so there was no doubt that [...]
KYH: Industrial Fashion Shoot (part 1)
I’m writing this post in a bit of a rush, because I’m trying to get ready for a shoot this afternoon and make dinner (lunch, if you’re not from t’North) at the same time. Such is the life of a man trying to fill every hour with minutes. If WordPress does its thing right, this [...]
Shootin’ old style
I’ve been meaning to blog about my film-shooting experiment for some time, pretty much ever since I bought a Nikon FM2 off eBay for £100. I can’t really remember when it was that i started to want to try shooting film. I think it was around about the time that Sarah and I decided that [...]
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 [...]
KYH: Woodland shoot
Howdy, campers. This is the first post in a series that I’m going to tag “Keep Yourself Honest” or KYH for brevity (it’s in the same family as GYOA – “Get Off Your Arse,” made popular by Zack Arias and others). The point of these posts is to give myself some targets to meet, in [...]
