Showing posts with label lighting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lighting. Show all posts

Sunday, September 25, 2022

Botanical Studies

Barry and Ken ran a very enjoyable workshop yesterday with Still-life as its theme and invited everyone to contribute some subjects - this resulted in a wonderful collection of vegetables, fruit, flowers, vases, memorabilia etc. I spent all afternoon photographing the different glass vases and bottles plus flowers that were contributed. Unfortunately, I managed to delete the folder of images before downloading but hope to retrieve at some stage. So here are my morning offerings using a lightbox and overhead lighting (continuous or flash), plus a bottle and hops with a light pad back illumination and a shell lit by studio flash. Hopefully my main project will rise from the ashes for later sharing

Thursday, September 8, 2022

Silhouettes Workshop

Our Cambridge Camera Club Wednesday Workshop group are meeting in Toft People's Hall most of this season, partly because of its excellent facilities including some programmable colour spotlights, which we used last night to give some interesting silhouette compositions (helped along with Lightroom colour curve adjustments etc). Thanks Paul for running it and Martin for his help with the lighting etc

Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Wimpole Christmas Lights Trail

This is the first time Wimpole Hall (National Trust) has organised a Christmas Lights Trail. We visited on Sunday and came away with mixed feelings. It is certainly very bright and festive with lots of very clever modern technology both in light and sound. The main drawbacks were the very large number of visitors combined with the narrowness of the paths meant that there was a lot of queueing and you were too close to the exhibits (for people with sensitive eyes it was uncomfortable in many areas). For me, the best exhibits were the 'standard' coloured lighting of trees and features and the lighting of the Hall itself. 

Friday, October 15, 2021

More Fungi - Sheringham woods

Apologies for more toadstools but it is that time of year!! Here some taken in very mixed woodland (Beech, Conifer, Silver birch, Oak etc) near Sheringham. I was using an LED light that can be set to daylight temperature and gives a very natural look to the image - all with the Fuji compact camera (F16 in most cases). Next step best setting for focus stacking to give some detail in the surroundings but isolate the toadstool a bit more.


 

Saturday, October 9, 2021

Workshop on Flash Techniques

Yesterday evening, Toft Photogroup and CCC had a photography evening in Toft Churchyard practising various flash and night photography techniques.  Zoe came along with her black and irridescent angel wings and white fans and feathers. The three church images are comparable exposures - first with the security lights on, then unlit and finally lit by light painting with a handheld flash gun. The first and second images of Zoe are single flashes while the third and fourth images are long exposures with several flashes during the exposure. 

Ann Miles Photography - My Favourite Images of the Past10 years or so