Tag: deanna
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Tutorial: Multiplicity – an Army of One
This tutorial is about an image we made back in November 2011, when we were fortunate enough to find ourselves relaxing in Fiji. The image was actually a lot harder on Deanna than it was on me. All I had to do was sit on the helicopter landing pad and bark orders. She, poor thing,…
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Lady Joker
The after-mess of the Dancing with Flour session was truly staggering. There was flour over every surface in the garage and poor Deanna was caked in it. So I took a few snaps and used Photoshop to enhance them in places. And by “in places” you’ll see that I mean I added blood to…
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Rim to Rim in the Grand Canyon
Deanna and I booked a 3 day hike with ‘Just roughin’ it‘, down the North face of the Grand Canyon, across the width, and up the South face. To use the vernacular of the kids, it was awesome. Three days carrying everything we needed to camp, eat, hike and generally survive. None of this would…
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Birth and Death at Horseshoe Bend
Page Arizona is home to some stunning scenery. The town itself is a tad scary but the views make it well worth the long drive. Deanna and I ended a stunning day sat on the rim of nearby Horseshoe Bend, drinking wine and watching the sun go down. I then started the following day sat…
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Review (Fuji X-Pro1): Our Fuji X-Pro1 weekend in Calistoga
Ah Calistoga, home of the wine country, heart of Napa. Place where I drank beer. Oops. It’s a truly magnificent area. You should visit. We spent the weekend hiking with the new FujiFilm X-Pro1 brick. There I said it, it’s a brick. It’s a fabulous brick. It looks old-skool and it’s solid enough that you…
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Lessons in battery life at Clear Lake
Shooting star shots takes a lot of juice. Often you’ll find people jacking their cameras in to car batteries, generators, all sorts of devices in an attempt to keep them shooting through the cold nights. Me, I just buy more batteries and keep an eye out for when they’re getting flat. A good fresh battery…
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Review (Nikon V1): Our Nikon V1 weekend atop Mt. Helena
I’m still looking for the perfect camera to carry in my hand as I spend 3 days hiking the Grand Canyon. Having dismissed the 4/3rds cameras as “shit” (read the full review here) I decided to try to the Nikon V1. You’ll recall that I was unhappy with the 4/3rd’s slow focusing and lack of…
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Glamour N Grime – Published Photo
As Robbie Williams said when EMI purchased his music, “I’m rich beyond my wildest dreams!” That’s right, the Austrian Tourist Board just PAID me, so they can use a shot I took a while ago, as an advert to encourage people to visit, and to hike in their country. Of course, the slight difference between…
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Fully Armed – Showing the tools
This is the second shot made with the same tool as Taking Aim. There’s some differences, firstly I rewired (plug n play) the inner light so that it was blue. Then I added an child’s umbrella to cover my face and add an extra dimension. This is the straight-out-of-camera shot. Click for the large view.…
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Taking Aim
As you’ll find out if you stick around, I’m terrible at flash photography. That said, I’m trying hard and learning a lot. The above photo has a large strobe in front and to the left of the image to give Deanna the front light see needs, but the scene is mostly lit by the light…
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And We’re Back
UPDATED: And now all the images are reloaded, the links work, and the Google magic is wired up. The only thing that went wrong is that I lost the subscription database and all the comments. So if you subscribed, please kindly do so again. Sorry about that. Welcome to my new home. Looks just…