A while back Graham and I did a photo shoot with Hannah down at the Lead Mines at Clywedog Dam in Powys, Wales. My goals for the shoot was to create something special with a bit of class about it. An evening gown in the middle of an ancient ruin seemed a good contrast to me…
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The Lead Mines
Posted in Flash, Lightroom, Outdoors on June 13, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Into the Light
Posted in Flash, Lightroom, Outdoors on April 26, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Here are my top 50 photographs from another workshop with Damien Lovegrove and Martin Hill. I’ve long had a desire to learn how to capture specific types of images and from this workshop, I learnt how these images are created. Enjoy…
Maunsel House
Posted in Flash, Lightroom, Outdoors on July 19, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Back in June I travelled to Somerset to attend a Damien Lovegrove and Chris Hanley photography workshop. Simply put, what an amazing event in an awesome location, Maunsel House. Picking which images to post for this blog was quite a challenge! So many great images to choose from…
Location Scouting – Newtown
Posted in Flash, Lightroom, Outdoors on February 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Over the last few weeks me and my shooting buddy Graham Law have been location scouting in and around Newtown, Powys, Wales. We’ve found quite a few locations but needed a suitable model to pose for us to really make most of them work. We’ll hopefully be able to try these out soon… This last [...]
Day 4 – Catching up
Posted in General Ramblings, iPhone, Lightroom on October 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Today has been about catching up with Barry and of course “cameras” was a topical subject! First we had breakfast at a lovely little place called “volumes”. They had a backdrop that would work great using a pair of flashes and a suitable model!! Then we popped over to the Apple store in a shopping [...]
The ‘look’in some of my photographs
Posted in Flash, Lightroom, Outdoors on September 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
One of the problems I’ve encountered in post-production with my images is imagining how they can look unique? I want some of them to be different, but give a familiarity and look that provides an alternative to the actual scene in real life. My earlier attempts in post-production were pretty basic and it remained so [...]
Home no more
Posted in Lightroom on September 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the town that I live, Newtown in Powys (Wales), we are having a new Tesco store being built. The town already has a Morissons, a Lidle and local grocery stores. I’m not sure if we really need something as large as Tesco’s, but time will tell… On the land that the new Tesco’s will [...]
