MS-Imaging: January 2010

Sunday 31 January 2010

Uncle Buck

I was invited to take some photos of a local rock covers band at their rehersal. The studio was cramped (to put it mildly so equipment was very limited. The walls were purple which would make bounced flash a no-no and there was no room for an umbrella for diffusion. I used a mixture of flash guns, usually one as a main light and one with a sto-fen diffuser for fill, occasionally a 3rd light to illuminate backgrounds (amps).

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Some Chairs

I found these chairs on an industrial site. The colourful sky and the orange containers behind seemed to make a colourful shot. Foreground lit by a Nikon SB-28 on camera, Camera was a Canon 40D with Sigma 17-70 lens

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Modern Architecture, or Lego?

Working in planning you think I'd be sick of the topic, but any excuse to take some photos is good enough for me. I was inspired to capture these images after seeing similar in various magazines and thinking maybe I could do as good of a job.

The location was Bristol Harbourside. I feel really old when I tell people I remember when it was ~~all fields~~ wasteland. Now the modern buildings (that a colleague of mine has likened to Lego) seem to be popping up all over the old docks. The lighting was good with plenty of sunshine and fluffy clouds making for some fantastic reflections on the overbearing glass windows.

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More Snow Photographs

I made a visit to one of my favourite locations as I had a feeling that the sunset would again be spectacular. I wasn't disappointed. I got to the footpath around 3pm so I had time to get some daylight shots first.

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Snow Pics

As it seems so many people are taking pics of the rare sight of snow, I thought I'd join in. All pics here taken with a Canon 40D and a Helios 44-2 lens.

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Sights Around Hotwells/Cumberland Basin

These were taken on a crisp sunny Sunday in Early Jan using 2 very different cameras. A modern digital SLR in the shape of a Canon 40D and an old 1966 Russian rangefinder in the shape of a FED 2.

If I was dishonest I would claim that I was making a comparison between the 2 mediums to show how they recorded this type of photography. As I'm not dishonest (at least on this occasion) it was purely that I wanted to finish the roll of film in the FED 2 which was its 1st roll to test it, before loading and wasting a 2nd roll. Also add to the fact that it was just above freezing and I just didn't fancy loading a film camera with numb fingers.

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