Photography... Test Shots August.

Some test shots...

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Photography... Bottle Test Shot.

Bottle shot test, shot with a Canon 5D MkIII, with a 70-200mm f4L lens, utilising four Bowens flash heads, three 500W and one 750W heads, two stripboxes behind the bottle camera left and right, and two heads mounted with large rectangular soft boxes behind trace screens each side of the bottle.

Cutout bottle.

Cut out the wooden table and drop into position.

Drop in wooden background, actually shot in my back garden,

it's part of a fence panel, shot in daylight, in shadow.

Lose the highlight on the wood background on the right.

And clean up the label, lose the dark bits... Photoshop time.

Final image.

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Photography... Knackered football (Soccer Ball)

My eldest found a knackered football in some bushes, brought it home, and then asked me to take some photographs of it, because he thought it looked like a spooky Mexican Wrestling Mask... couldn't let him down, could I.

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Photography... Spanish Ceramics.

More Ceramics from a recent shoot.

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Photography... Some assignments in May

May and I'm busy with all sorts of assignments, security products, the Mini Police initiative clothing, food and ceramics.

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Photography... Car shoot - Jaguar F-Type

Before Photoshop

I shot this Jaguar F-Type in Chester yesterday, just after Storm Gareth had blown and blustered its way across the country, and just before the heavens opened. Set up was two Bowens 500 Pro heads, both with 9 inch reflectors, on Manfrotto stands, and powered by a pair of Bowens Travelpaks. Camera was a Canon 5D MkIII, with a 24-70mm f2.8L lens, all supported on a large Calumet tripod.

After Photoshop

I took a number of shots moving one flash head to get the wheels and tyres lit separately as well as the left hand side of the car, these were put together using layers in Photoshop to get the result I was looking for.

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Photography... Portrait shoot

When a friend calls you up and says, 'Can you take some head shot photos of me?' what can you do, except say okay.

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What's in my camera bag...

So what's in my camera bag? Well for a start I can tell you it's damned heavy. Two Canon bodies, usually my Fuji X100 (but I used that to take these photos), a selection of five lenses, flash guns, X-Rite ColorChecker, batteries, light-meter, i-Shoot transmitters and receivers, compact-flash and SDHC cards, Leatherman, filters, clips, rubber bands, bluetac, white cotton gloves, rubber gloves, lens cleaning cloth, Gaffer tape, there are other bits that are added and taken out as and when they'll be required.

So from the overview of the bag you can see how it fits in.

  

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Radiator Week... Photoshop work.

I actually did this job a while ago, I've just found the draft sitting in my Post list in Blogger, so I thought I'd finally publish it.

Building Radiators in Photoshop 101.

The small 'Original' radiator on the left is what I photographed, it's a colour sample, or 'Babies', I had seven of these to photograph but the red set shows what I built from such a small sample. From the get go I had to add another bar as the final images required that the radiators were three tubes deep. This required a lot of cutting, pasting and occasionally, swearing! 

Without a Wacom tablet I'd have never gotten these done, pen over mouse any day.

Three finished radiators

The Babies



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Photography... More new client work Feb 2019

Some more new client work, including for a 4X4 Fabrication company who turn Land Rover Defenders, amongst other vehicles, into serious off road truck engine powered conversions.

Lovely attention to detail.

And the interiors don't go wanting either, whatever colour leather trim you want, and with custom built centre consoles. 

 Continued work for my jewellery clint, more examples of their wares required shooting for their new website.

All images

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