These are all my posts in chronological order. Have a scroll through my whole body of work if you want to just pick out the bits you like.
She’s The Social One… I’m Not. My sister is one of those normal girly social types, we couldn’t be much more different but we still get on pretty well. Tonight I caught her in her natural habitat — mid conversation. This is not the shot I had planned for tonight, but the shoot I was […]
A nice easy shot today as I spent 6 hours in a chair being stabbed thousands of times by Mitch. No really, I did — he started my comic book inspired Crow sleeve. My second piece by him, he did my leg too, so stoked off his work. I just wanted to grab a nice […]
Here we go again… this is it, the start of my third 50 day project with the 50mm lens. From here until the 20th October I am going to be losing my mind enjoying doing a photoshoot of some description every day with my nifty fifty. If you followed the project last years project you’ll […]
You know it’s been nearly 10 months since I did my How I Shoot: Lowkey Portrait, what a slacker I am. Life just gets in the way sometimes… you know? But yeah, a new How I Shoot — ooh ooh exciting isn’t it. So this time I wanted do to an article that explained how I mix daylight with strobes.
I’m at a really strange place with photography right now. I feel very lost; I don’t know what I am doing or where I am going with it. It’s been bothering me for weeks — I don’t have any direction & people seem hell bent on making it into work for me. I didn’t get into photography for financial gain or acclaim. I got into it so I would have a free, relaxed, creative outlet outside of the design world in which I work. I am more than happy being a designer for my day job & I don’t feel I need or want photography to enter into that.
Yesterday I completed my second Project 50. For those that don’t know Project 50 consists of 50 photos over 50 sequential days taken with a 50mm lens. That’s a lot of 50s, right? So yeah, started on the 1st of July & fifty days later I was done! A lot of you know that last year I did a photo a day for a year (See the set on flickr) you would think that fifty photos in a row must be a walk in the park. Well that would be true if I had approached it in the same way I did my 365 but for this project I wanted to keep the quality really high the whole way through.
If you want to get started with strobist photography it does not have to cost the earth. I’ve put together a list of budget kit with a direct comparison to their premium counter parts.
Long time coming right? Yeah, but it’s here now so shush your mouth! I want to start fairly simple, something that anyone getting into the strobist side of photography could achieve with some pretty basic kit. Lowkey sprung to mind straight away — It’s easy to do with a single light & you can use just about any lens, especially since we don’t need to take advantage of a wide (low) aperture for a shallow depth of field. Oh also — I’ve done a video of the whole thing. It’s at the end of this post, it’s very amateur but maybe it will help you out… if not you can at least laugh at me!
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.
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.