View from Corfe Castle

This was a 3-shot HDR taken on the Fuji X-Pro1 with the 18-55 mounted. I used a warm-up filter and a neutral grad on the sky. I cropped to panoramic format as the foreground was a bit dull!

FUJIFILM X-Pro1, f/8 @ 22.3 mm, ISO 200, No Flash

Enallagma cyathigerum - not!

Many thanks to Bob Latham for the ID! I liked the bokeh from the Fuji 55-200 at the long end here.

 

Many thanks to James Skinner for the corrected ID:

The damselfy in your picture isn't Enallagma cyathigerum.

It's a male Calopteryx splendens.....Banded demoiselle

FUJIFILM X-Pro1, f/4.8 @ 200 mm, 1/850, ISO 200, 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

 

Foxgloves

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, f/2 @ 35 mm, ISO 100, No Flash

Thinking

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, f/2 @ 85 mm, 1/250, ISO 100, Flash

 

Martin Headstock

Processed in Silver Efex

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, f/2 @ 135 mm, 1/320, ISO 800, No Flash

Headshot and Helen Gallery

Hiya - gallery of 11 shots from the Helen shoot is here: http://www.philhackettphotography.com/Helen

Here is a headshot at close range wide open on the 85mm f/1.2, hence the narrow depth of field.

 

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, f/1.2 @ 85 mm, 1/250, ISO 100, Flash

Helen in Mono

InfoCanon EOS-1Ds Mark III, f/1.2 @ 85 mm, 1/100, ISO 1600, Flash

 

Roxy

FUJIFILM X-Pro1, f/1.4 @ 35 mm, 1/50, ISO 1600, No Flash

Helen in the park at night

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, f/1.2 @ 85 mm, 1/100, ISO 1600, 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

The battlement on the hill

Shot at Warwick Castle, HDR processed in Photomatix

 

FUJIFILM X-Pro1, f/6.4 @ 42.5 mm, ISO 200, No Flash

Mother and child

This image is a huge testament to Fuji's OIS image stabilising system - this was taken at 200mm (effective focal length 300mm) handheld at 1/10 second! It was at ISO1600 and is remarkably clean - very little noise. I'm impressed with the 55-200mm Zoom - even wide open at the long end it is very crisp.

 

FUJIFILM X-Pro1, f/4.8 @ 200 mm, 1/10, ISO 1600, No Flash

 

Apologies

Hi all

Sorry there hasn't been many photos recently - lots of decorating going on so haven't had chance to post much. Normal service will soon resume!

Phil