(Common?) Blue Butterfly

Sikh Gentleman

Peterkin the Fool

A very funny man who entertained us at a recent event at Kenilworth Castle - his website is here: http://www.peetcooper.co.uk/

Catherine in Monochrome

From a location shoot a while back around the Thames. This was shot with on-camera fill flash.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/2 @50 mm, 1/250, ISO 200, Flash

The Old Polar Treatment

I used the Lightroom Preset 'Old Polar' to process this shot.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/2 @135 mm, 1/2000, ISO 100, No Flash

Fire!

From an English Heritage event. The shot (converted to B&W) plus a close-up of the explosion in colour.

 

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/4 @ 300 mm, 1/2500, ISO 400

Feathered friend coming in to land...

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/4 @ 300 mm, 1/2000, ISO 200

 

BMX jump in Mono

Pity I'd forgotten my flash gun - would have underexposed the background. Ended up over exposing to give some detail in the subject and then converting to mono using Silver Efex.

 

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/2.8 @ 24 mm, 1/2000, ISO 200, No Flash,

Stunt Bike

5D MKII, 24-70mm f/2.8L II @ 31mm, 1/2000s, ISO 200, f/2.8

The fly....

The full shot and a 100% crop of a fly on a branch taken with the Canon 24-70mm f/2.8L MKII.

This lens is ridiculously sharp!

5D MKII, f/4 @ 70mm.

 

 

 

Brixworth Country Park

 

3 exposures @ f/4 on the (amazing) 24-70mm MKII

Double Cyanide!

Just finishing off processing from my shoot with Michelle - a last couple for you....

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/2 @ 135 mm, 1/320, ISO 200, Flash

 

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/2.8 @ 50 mm, 1/160, ISO 200, Flash

 

Virgin Galactic SS2

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/1.4 @ 35 mm, ISO 100

Who's a pretty boy then?

My fisheye has gone to pastures new to make way for this beast - the Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM

I reckoned that the 35mm would get more use. I have owned the Canon 35mm f/1.4 L in the past and this new lens appears to be far superior. It is very sharp wide open (as the shot below demonstrates) and renders out of focus areas beautifully.

In the shot below the focus point is on the eye. This is a fairly heavy crop. Viewing the original at 100% shows the eye to be silly-sharp! The Canon's 35mm f/1.4 is a great lens, but not ideal wide open unlike the Sigma. (Bob L - just order one!)

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/1.4 @ 35 mm, 1/200, ISO 400, Flash

Minibeast

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/5.6 @ 100 mm, 1/200, ISO 400, No Flash

John Sledging!

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, f/2 @ 135 mm, 1/640, ISO 400, No Flash

Tracey Fisheye Portrait

Fisheye's aren't the most flattering lenses for portraiture but they give a unique look.

Here I lit Tracey with flash and deliberately underexposed the background with exposure compensation.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/4 @ 15 mm, 1/800, ISO 800, Flash

A quiet lunchbreak

Candid of lady sitting having a quiet smoke over lunchtime.

 

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/2.8 @ 200 mm, 1/1000, ISO 200, No Flash

Swans at Willen lake

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/2 @ 135 mm, 1/2000, ISO 100, Flash

Peace Pagoda - de-fished HDR

Just around sunset I took this three shot HDR of the peace pagoda on my Canon 8-15L Fisheye.

I mostly liked the result, but felt the fisheye distortion detracted from the shot. I used the lens profile in Lightroom from Canon's 15mm f/2.8 fisheye to combat some of the distortion. I include an original fisheye frame for comparison.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/5 @ 15 mm, 1/320, ISO 800

One frame un-edited: