Away taking photos!

Hi all - away taking photos for a week - hopefully have something worth posting on my return!

Phil

Natalie #3

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/14 @ 85 mm, 1/160, ISO 100

Natalie Smoking

Lit with @Lencarta lights - Silver brolley camera left, strip box camera right.

 

Converted to B&W in lightroom, pushed clarity, blacks, contrast, detail

 

 

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/5.6 @ 85 mm, 1/160, ISO 100,

Natalie in profile

@Lencarta EP600 with strip softbox behind and camera left, EP300 firing into silver brolley camera left in front of Natalie.

Canon 5DII, 85mm f/1.2 @ f/14, ISO 100, 1/160s

More fractal fun!

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/11 @ 50 mm, 1/125, ISO 100

Fractal Studio Portrait

Created using the Fractalius Plugin for Elements.

 

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/11 @ 50 mm, 1/125, ISO 100

 

Richard Smith in a Caterham @ Rockingham

Canon EOS 7D, f/8 @ 146 mm, 1/125, ISO 100, No Flash

Theresa in a black dress

In this shot I lit Theresa with a @Lencarta folding octabox from camera right and stripbox camera left set to a high power.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/9 @ 50 mm, 1/125, ISO 100

B&W in the spotlight

@Lencarta strip light (EP600) on model left, gridded reflector used as spot light on model right.

Canon 1DsMkIII, 85mm f/1.2 @ f/11, 1/125s, ISO 100

Window Light Lingerie

Lit purely by window light and almost straight out of camera. Just did a few bits in Lightroom, mostly using a graduated exposure filter to lighten the left hand side.

 

 

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/2 @ 50 mm, 1/2500, ISO 800, No Flash

Abstract - building at sunset

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, f/2 @ 135 mm, 1/1250, ISO 100

Jack Broadbent on the slide guitar

Saw the very talented Jack Broadbent performing on the street in Islington tonight. He was doing some fantastic slide guitar using a hip flask as a slide.

 

I focussed on the eyes 85mm @ f/2 and then used a layer mask in Elements to desat the background.

 

You can hear Jack here: http://soundcloud.com/jack-broadbent

 

 

At the hairdressers in Islington

 

Canon 5DII, 50mm f/1.2 @ 1.2 + flash

Gendarme bug (Pyrrhocoris apterus)

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

Brown Argus Butterfly (Aricia agestis)

These are common in England, but I took this shot in France.

The Canon 135L has quite a close minimum focussing distance so makes a good butterfly lens.

Canon EOS 7D, f/5 @ 135 mm, 1/800, ISO 200, No Flash

Smiley lady at Rockingham

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/5.6 @ 50 mm, 1/500, ISO 100, Flash

Caterham panning shot - Jeremy Webb, Rockingham, 7th October 2012

Went to Rockingham Speedway today and watched a load of Caterham races and a couple of VW Golf ones too.

This was taken on the Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 L IS USM mounted on a 7D. I dropped the shutter speed to 1/80 second and panned as smoothly as I could to keep the car sharp but blur the background.  (A few years ago I went to a track day and used a fast shutter speed - all the cars looked parked!)

I set the stabiliser to mode 2 which means it will offer stabilisation in one direction, but won't interfere with the panning.

I had more 'keepers' when I upped the shutter speed to 1/125, but I like the amount of blur I got at 1/80.

Jeremy Webb, Rockingham, 7th October 2012:

Canon EOS 7D, f/16 @ 300 mm, 1/80, ISO 100, No Flash

Having a fag on the ferry

A candid!

 

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/2 @ 25 mm, 1/200, ISO 400, Flash

Mother and Father in Law

I was really pleased with this portrait of my parents-in-law taken in France earlier in the year. I used the superb 85L on my 7D with a dash of fill flash .

Canon EOS 7D, f/2 @ 85 mm, 1/500, ISO 200, Flash

Flower bed

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, f/1.2 @ 50 mm, 1/8000, ISO 100