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April 4, 2011 by graham
Vision would be nice, part 1
This is part 1 of a two-part series. Part 2 will appear online in a couple of days. It’s been a funny few weeks at Binns Towers; madly busy with barely a moment to breathe, or so it’s seemed to those of us caught in the tide of everything going on. It seems to be [...]Archive
July 24, 2010 by graham
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 [...]Archive
July 4, 2010 by graham
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. [...]Archive
June 3, 2010 by graham
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 [...]Archive
April 26, 2010 by graham
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 [...]Archive
October 18, 2009 by graham
In which our hero uses the Big Guns
In the last couple of weeks I've learned something I didn't expect to learn: I love shooting with studio lights. Okay, they're big and heavy and awkward to hump around when compared to, say, some SB-900s (which, incidentally, I still want, if Santa's listening).
In the last couple of weeks I've had chance to shoot twice with studio lights (slideshow below the fold). Both were under controlled conditions, at shooting sessions run by established pros, but just getting to grips with the ideas behind the lighting was fantastic. I'm seriously considering investing in my own set of studio heads (though I'm still balancing that with the idea of a camera upgrade or the aforementioned SB-900s).
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July 28, 2009 by graham
Mad ideas
I dented a while back about wanting to try this out some time over the summer. For the link averse, ‘this’ is a video of photographer Clay Enos shooting portraits of random people on the street in front of a piece of white seamless paper. So, in the spirit of JFDI, I’ve decided to give [...]Archive
June 17, 2009 by graham
Shooting Michelle at La Mola
I mentioned a few posts back that I did a shoot with my friend Michelle whilst we were both at the Canonical Allhands conference at the La Mola. We didn't have much time - maybe forty minutes for something that I'd usually expect to take a couple of hours over - and the rushing about (not to mention the heat, the humidity and my overwhelming nervousness) meant that I made some rookie mistakes that I shouldn't have. Then again, that was the whole point of the shoot.
Anyway, three weeks after returning from Spain, and I've managed to pare the shoot down to the best sixteen frames that I shot. There were others, but not as good as these, nor as representative of what we did. Michelle was an awesome subject, especially when you consider that she's never posed for anyone before and was being ordered about by a big, hairy, sweaty Englishman with camera around his neck.
Flickr slideshow below the fold. Hope you enjoy it; I enjoyed making it.