Histograms

You might already know all about histograms, if don’t it’s well worth getting your head around them because, well, they are pretty awesome. Unfortunately they are often overlooked, dismissed or misunderstood but they are very helpful especially when it comes to strobist photography.

Droplet Series 2 Launch

Yesterday me and the crew made the 3 hour drive south to the fair city of Bristol for the launch of the 2nd series of the Jam Factory & Crazy Label Droplets. It was a really awesome day, Gav let me get in early to take some shots of the customs, the quality of work was unbelievable! There is no way I could pick a favourite! I even did a few portrait shots with the man him self & the GIANT droplet.

Delta

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 [...]

Canon EF 135mm f/2 L USM

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.

How I Shoot: The Tools

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.