Social pirates
For a bit of fun I shot some portraits the other day of the cast and crew of the Lower School production at my wife’s school. There was, as you may have gathered, a piratical theme to the play. This fits into the realm of social and event photography more than it does into my [...]
Some people I met
I've been talking for a long time about the challenge of photographing strangers. Those of you who know me know that the one thing that I'm short on much of the time is self belief. I'd rather be insulted than complimented because normally I find compliments leave too much out (as Bert pointed out at the workshop [...]
Eve and Grace
Picture the scene, if you will: A lovely, sunny, June afternoon. Very sunny, in fact. And on this very sunny afternoon I ended up doing a shoot on a white patio with two kids: one seven year-old and one very cranky baby.
Yeah, I got my arse kicked by the sun, as I’ve said before, but I learned a bunch of things, too, so it worked out well. Next time I won’t let the sun beat me.
Slideshow after the fold. Hope you like ‘em.
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 [...]
Want to be photographed?
Five times, now, I’ve tried writing this post. Five times I’ve not been able to complete it, mainly because every single time I did it I found myself hedging around the point because I was too embarrassed to actually write it and put it out there for the consideration of you, the cognoscenti. So this, [...]
Cool Hacking
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 142 UDS Intrepid, day 4 Mirco Müller hacks in the lobby at UDS Intrepid.
