Kuala Lumpur Tourist

Random tourist near Sultan Abdul Samad Building in Kuala Lumpur - shot wide open with a dash of fill-flash on the 50/1.2.

Camera make:Canon

Camera model:Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III

Focal length:50 mm

Max lens aperture:f/1.2

Exposure:1/2500 at f/1.2

Flash:Fired, compulsory mode

Exposure bias:0 EV

Exposure mode:Auto

Exposure prog.:Aperture priority

ISO speed:ISO 200

Metering mode:Pattern

Horse sculpture, Batu Caves, Kuala Lumpur

A three-shot HDR processed in Photomatix. I chose a fairly slender depth of field (f/2.2) to give the shot some depth and 'pop' the foreground.

Camera make:Canon

Camera model:Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III

Focal length:50 mm

Max lens aperture:f/1.2

Exposure:f/2.2

Flash:Not fired, compulsory mode

Exposure mode:Auto bracket

Exposure prog.:Aperture priority

ISO speed:ISO 100

Ask a stranger to pose....

So I ask a couple to pose for me by the Petronas Towers and then everyone wants a shot!

Very challenging lighting - sometimes needing to back the flash off, other times not!

Camera make:Canon

Camera model:Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III

Focal length:50 mm

Max lens aperture:f/1.2

Exposure:1/125 at f/1.8

Flash:Fired, compulsory mode

Exposure bias:0 EV

Exposure mode:Manual

ISO speed:ISO 400

Camera make:Canon

Camera model:Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III

Focal length:24 mm

Max lens aperture:f/1.4

Exposure:1/125 at f/1.4

Flash:Fired, compulsory mode

Exposure bias:0 EV

Exposure mode:Manual

ISO speed:ISO 400

Camera make:Canon

Camera model:Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III

Focal length:24 mm

Max lens aperture:f/1.4

Exposure:1/125 at f/1.8

Flash:Fired, compulsory mode

Exposure bias:0 EV

Exposure mode:Manual

ISO speed:ISO 400

First day in Kuala Lumpur - Petronas Towers

Hi all

Apologies I've not posted much for a while - I plan to post more over the coming weeks.

Today I arrived in KL and I am staying near the Petronas Towers.

The first shot is the typical one - taken from the hotel 'SkyBar'. With the second I went for a quirkier angle - I was more interested in the geometry than the colour so I converted to black and white in Silver Efex.

Camera model:Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III
Focal length:24 mm
Max lens aperture:f/1.4
Exposure:1/30 at f/2
Flash:Not fired, compulsory mode
Exposure bias:-2 EV
ISO speed:ISO 400

Camera model:Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III
Focal length:50 mm
Max lens aperture:f/1.2
Exposure:1/40 at f/2.2
Exposure bias:-1 EV
ISO speed:ISO 400

Rebecca in Bristol

Long time, no posting - apologies! Spending far too much time playing the guitar!

Anyhow - a shot from a night shoot in Bristol of the model, Rebecca.

Very little light so shot wide open (handheld) on a 50/1.2

 

 

Camera make:Canon

Camera model:Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III

Focal length:50 mm

Max lens aperture:f/1.2

Exposure:1/50 at f/1.2

Flash:Not fired, compulsory mode

Exposure bias:0 EV

Exposure mode:Manual

Exposure prog.:Manual

ISO speed:ISO 1600

 

Motech Photo Shoot

Sorry it's been a little quiet recently - shot quite a few weddings and may blog about those soon, but I thought you might be interested in a car photoshoot from the weekend for Motech. (http://www.motechperformance.co.uk/)

[Thanks to Mike of Motech and James / Dave for the 'loan' of their cars for the shoot.]

(You can see the full gallery of the shots here: http://www.philhackettphotography.com/motech)

Photographing cars is a challenging business - it's difficult to avoid getting hotspots from the lights; reflections can also ruin the shots.

I decided to use a 5x7 Lastolite HiLite with two Lencarta ElitePro 2's inside. I love the ElitePro 2's as I can control the power remotely - this proved invaluable when tweaking the output in the car shoot.

This was the basic setup:

The black background gave a plain backdrop and removed unwanted reflections from behind the cars.
I angled the soft 'wall' to give some variation in illumination from left to right, although I ended up increasing the power of the flashgun furthest from the car to make the drop-off less severe.

This shows the general effect:

In the first shot above you can see an octobox - I experimented with this as a fill light for some shots, but had it switched off for most.

You can see the reflection of the softbox here - note the more even lighting across the car:

For straight engine shots I used a softbox on its own:

When I wanted the front and engine I used the soft 'wall' to light the front of the car and a 70cm beauty dish to pool some light onto the engine bay:

We used a couple of ramps to angle the rear of the car for details of the exhaust system:

Camera / lens combinations - I mostly used a 1DsIII with the 70-200 f/2.8 II. For the engine shots I used a 50mm and I did take a couple of wider angle shots of the front of the M4 using my 16-35 & 24-105 zooms.

Vintage post office scales

Felbrigg Hall

 

Camera make:Canon

Camera model:Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III

Focal length:50 mm

Max lens aperture:f/1.2

Exposure:1/80 at f/1.2

Flash:Not fired, compulsory mode

Exposure bias:0 EV

Exposure mode:Auto

Exposure prog.:Aperture priority

ISO speed:ISO 100

Metering mode:Pattern

Re-edit of Graffiti and Meadow shot

The background was a little too distracting in yesterday's shot - here I've darkened it and lightened Kayleigh slightly:

Here's a different scene from the same shoot - this time taken at a distance with a longer lens - still lit with two off-camera flashguns - one in front of Kayleigh and the other behind - both to camera left.

Camera make:Canon

Camera model:Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III

Focal length:182 mm

Max lens aperture:f/2.8

Exposure:1/400 at f/2.8

Flash:Fired, compulsory mode

Exposure bias:0 EV

Exposure mode:Auto

Exposure prog.:Aperture priority

ISO speed:ISO 400

Metering mode:Pattern

 

Kayleigh Graffiti and behind-the-scenes

Had a great shoot with Kayleigh this evening. The theme was urban / graffiti and I lit the shot with two off-camera 580EXII's, both fired with Hahnel Tuff TTL triggers. I used a lastolite Softbox for the key light and bare flash for the hair light.

First the shot:

Camera make:Canon

Camera model:Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III

Focal length:50 mm

Max lens aperture:f/1.2

Exposure:1/200 at f/2

Flash:Fired, compulsory mode

Exposure bias:0 EV

Exposure mode:Auto

Exposure prog.:Aperture priority

ISO speed:ISO 100

Metering mode:Pattern

And here is the setup:

Choir pews

Another from Lincoln Cathedral - I liked the neatly stacked piles of books.

 

 

Mining Thingy

HDR of some random mining accessory at the Black Country Museum - love to know what it is - would have asked but they were shutting up for the night!

 

Camera make:Canon

Camera model:Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III

Focal length:50 mm

Max lens aperture:f/1.2

Flash:Not fired

Exposure mode:Auto bracket

Exposure prog.:Aperture priority

ISO speed:ISO 100

Metering mode:Pattern

Wrapped up in phones

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, f/1.2 @ 50 mm, 1/100, ISO 400, No Flash

 

 

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, f/1.2 @ 50 mm, 1/100, ISO 800, No Flash

 

Long exposure bridge

Wow - almost a month since my last post - many apologies.

I had a crazy week where I photographed three weddings around a holiday and then had four days to process all the shots before heading to France for over a week!

Anyway - I've not got a few shots to share and will start with this one:

I wanted to get a thin depth of field but also blur the water with a long exposure. To achieve this I stacked a Lee 'Big Stopper' with my friend Bob's Lee 6-stop Neutral Density to allow a 30 second exposure at f/2.

Below is a shot of me taking the shot, kindly provided by Bob! You can visit his website here: http://www.boblatham-photography.net/
(The Infrared galleries include some shots of the same location)

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, f/2 @ 50 mm, 30s, ISO 100, No Flash

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bleach bypass Andy

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, f/13 @ 50 mm, 1/125, ISO 100

Andy in thought

Processed in Analog Efex 2 to give a film-like feel. I added a 'light leak' which gives a gentle feeling of haze without killing the contrast.

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, f/11 @ 50 mm, 1/100, ISO 100

 

Andy in profile

Andy was looking into the middle of a silver brolly to provide the wrapped lighting.

 

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, f/13 @ 50 mm, 1/100, ISO 100, No Flash

 

Trotters Independent Training

I spent three hours today photographing the public with Del Boy's car, Steve McQueen and a couple of other vehicles!

Fighting against strong sunlight is always tricky - I dialled in -1 on most of the shots on ambient exposure and +2/3 on the flash gun.

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, f/4 @ 50 mm, 1/2500, ISO 200, Flash

 

Twins with a single model!

This shot took some planning! First the shot, next the explanation!

Helen and I ventured out onto her roof in London at sunset. I placed the Canon 1DsIII and 50mm  f/1.2 on a tripod, focussed it and set it to f/2.0. A flash gun was off camera on a stand to the right of the shooting position.

Firstly Helen sat on the right hand side of the roof with a red wig on. Then, while she changed, I took a series of shots of the background to blend into an HDR.

Helen then posed on the left.

I merged three shots to an HDR for the background, blended in the two Helens and finally added some of the original sunset back in to enrich the sky!

Rooftop Helen, thoughtful at sunset

Had a fun shoot with Helen tonight - started off with some shots on the roof at sunset. There was a several storey drop just to the right of the picture!

Helen was lit with an off-camera bare flash to camera right.

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, f/1.8 @ 50 mm, 1/500, ISO 200, Flash

Daisy on the rocks

Canon EOS 5D Mark III, f/1.2 @ 50 mm, 1/800, ISO 200, Flash