Tag: flash
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Tutorial: Neighing in the rain (white balance)
It’s all about the crop or It’s all about the temperature I posted the below picture last week. I was very unhappy with it at the time but I couldn’t work out how to make it better. Thanks to May‘s version of the image, I now know what I was doing wrong. The above picture…
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Slinging Fire in the Fog
The above photo is not mine. It was taken by May Wong. She kindly allowed me to showcase it here, I’ll explain why in a mo. Here’s her Facebook page. For a while now Eric and I have talked about teaching a light painting class, and while nothing has come of it, we have used…
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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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Suicide is Painless
I found myself in a hotel room, sightly drunk of course, with nothing to do. Handily, I’d lugged a flash and some EL wire along for the ride, and to bastardize the Hitchhiker‘s quote “you’re never alone with EL wire”. My weird mind led me to the conclusion that I should spend the evening trying…
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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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Burning Smores
I know websites are supposed to show your successes and achievements but I thought I should be more honest than that, and show the failures too. This is Deanna (my ever patient wife / model) wearing a latex horses head – what do you mean you don’t own one? Everyone should own one! – setting…
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Pretty Ugly People
In the UK there’s a tradition called gurning. It’s the ‘art’ of making really ugly faces for sport. We even have competitions to find the ugliest face in the village. An old man with no teeth always wins. Anyway, back in July 2011 I worked at a company called LogLogic. The people there were cool…