Posts from the ‘photography’ Category
How to be a serene wedding photographer
Photographing weddings is hard work and lots of fun. There’s a healthy—if it’s controlled—amount of stress and physical exercise involved too: all that leaping, ducking, diving, crouching, climbing on the furniture to get The Shots.
Here’s a good way of avoiding that just-set-off-for-the-wedding-in-the-car “I did put my backup camera in the bag, didn’t I?” moment. Read more…
Huge softbox, massive gold reflector
Is this a softbox, Daddy?
Why you might want to open a photography studio in a farmyard
Last weekend was a bank holiday without a wedding to photograph, so we enjoyed family time (my wife’s emphasis!) and a much lighter than work-a-day camera bag to carry around. I did have a speedlight in the bag, but, after surveying the wonderful lighting conditions in the new “playbarn” at Greenlands Farm Village, I gave it the day off too. Read more…
Sedbergh FolkFest PhotoFest [updated]
Now in its second year in its new Yorkshire Dales location on the glorious south-facing flank of the Howgill Fells, Sedbergh FolkFest is a real early summer treat. It’s a small and as-good-as perfectly formed summer festival. I had a great time photographing it on behalf of the organisers. Check out the 2010 festival gallery by clicking here or on the image below. You can also see images from the previous year by following this link.
English long bow
Photographer makes lots of dough
Who are you calling cupcake?
On Saturday morning, after a frenetic photography fortnight, our daughter talked me into parking the cameras to “Bake bread with Daddy!”
Right now we are in the middle of moving just about everything in the house for a renovation that is finally gathering pace, so the cliché of a cast iron range cooker that usually provides heat for warming the dough was switched off. With flour between our toes and most of the dough back in the cavernous mixing bowl, we wondered where the sticky stuff was going to get the warmth needed to, er, prove itself. That’s when I came over all Ray Mears and Bear Grylls. Why not cover it with clingfilm [Glad Wrap for readers from my wife's side of the family] and put it out on the terrace to bathe in all-too-rare Yorkshire Dales sunshine? That’s what we did. I sold it to the toddler as the dough needing to “have a sleep” before going to work. Whispering and on tip-toes, we retraced our floury footprints into the kitchen.
An hour later and the mix was more than twice its pre-snooze size at which point I had to break the photography embargo for the sake of the Grandparents.
Photo of the day: Mine all Mine
Mine all mine
Fun on Gateshead’s Baltic Mills’ viewing terrace above the Tyne. Strong late afternoon sunlight behind; metered for slightly under-exposed background; filled with camera-mouted SB800; FEC -1.3. Finished with Nik Silver Efex pro.
