Last week I embarked on my 2nd week of self project and completed the first, albeit small, project of the year. The project, if you hadn’t guessed, was a week of self portraits, that sounds easy but it really isn’t. I did it along side Kym, Leah & Nat, three great girls. You should take some time to go and check out their shots, but before your wander off, take a look at what I came up with for the week.
At the beginning of December I was in London for the weekend, on the Sunday I put most of a roll of Ilford Delta ISO3200 through my Canon AE-1.
I went to get the film processed as soon as I got back, but the labs I went to told me that they would have to be [...]
Before we start let me warn you this isn’t going to be an unbiased review, I will not be being objective, I am here to declare my love for this lens.
I get asked quite a lot about how I work with off camera flash. I thought it would be great to do a short series of posts that I can direct people to instead of replying to each one. In this first post I want to cover the tools I use, the second will cover setting up the lights & taking the shot & for the third I will cover post production.
So let me give you a little background, 365 days ago I didn’t have a digital single lens reflex camera, or even a film single lens reflex camera, or any ‘proper’ sort of camera, in fact I had never had one…