A thread with photos and things.

Phate · 18 May 2015 at 13:17

mrk said:
Same with me too and some other photo mates too based on somewhat recent discussions!

But I kept them because they still work as photographs and are of /a moment/ of that day, even if they’re not the sharpest/technical of shots

It's not the fact it's not sharp or anything...I'm just a firm believer that if you're going to include their face...then include THE face, not 45% of it

Anyway. Providing the client is happy, that's all that matters.

BananaDunka · 18 May 2015 at 13:22

When have I ever strictly stuck to accepted rules

Phate · 18 May 2015 at 13:23

mrk said:
When have I ever strictly stuck to accepted rules

When you clean your car religiously?

BananaDunka · 18 May 2015 at 13:24

But that's my standard, others call it being a bit mad!

BananaDunka · 24 May 2015 at 11:29

A few from the weekend up at EastHampstead Park.

Thinking back now, I hope I get more at that venue, there is so much potential for dusk and night time shots but our day was finished by half 8 and it was still bright out. Another day perhaps!

BananaDunka · 31 May 2015 at 00:12

On the beach.

BananaDunka · 7 Jun 2015 at 21:54

One of my favourite shots this season.

I used the MagMod kit for illumination on this. Maggrid and MagSphere used in combination.

BananaDunka · 19 Jun 2015 at 04:49

A couple with the Tamron 15-30mm this morning down the road:

Phal · 19 Jun 2015 at 07:15

Is that with or without any kind of distortion correction in lightroom? Not sure whether there would be a profile for it yet?

BananaDunka · 19 Jun 2015 at 07:19

Lightroom 6.1 update added the lens this month so all good!

Distortion correction is pretty good. The lens itself doesn't distort that much really, the 17-40 distorted a lot more.

BananaDunka · 21 Jun 2015 at 23:45

Shot 2 from the wedding on the beach front.

BananaDunka · 24 Jun 2015 at 02:16

“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!”
― Ted Grant

Vertigo · 20 Jul 2015 at 08:11

mrk said:
One of my favourite shots this season.

I used the MagMod kit for illumination on this. Maggrid and MagSphere used in combination.

Love this! How are you getting on with the MagSphere - I keep thinking about picking one up but the cost including shipping from the US is rather high. Is it worth it?

BananaDunka · 20 Jul 2015 at 08:23

I'm not sure if I can answer that question for you fully really as I haven't used it enough yet for the cost to be justified, though my price was a bit lower due to the kickstarter bundle I guess. The venue locations and scenario to use it just hasn't popped up e ough yet but there's still half a year left of shoots so who knows

For my intended uses it was an asset worth having to give a new dynamic to my work I guess, but we all know I just live new gadgets let's be honest

I was reading Petapixel the other day where a photographer uses off camera flash for street portraits of the homeless, he uses a boom pole with a strobe attached and softboxes hand held and that gave me an idea. I have a monopod kicking about so can use one of the 600RTs with the MagSphere attached to do the same thing during the next London Street walkabout.

Vertigo · 20 Jul 2015 at 08:40

Ah ok thanks for that.

I'm thinking mainly of speeches and first dance stuff when the light isn't great and I have to resort to using flash. I'm currently using the technique I stole from Ray with 2/3 off-camera flashes on stands in manual and one on the hotshoe in ETTL. This works well most of the time but, when I don't have a good bounce option for the on-camera one I end up with it pointing forward which can give some harsh highlights at times. Just wondering whether to get something to soften that a bit.

BananaDunka · 20 Jul 2015 at 08:49

Ah yes the first dance I've used it for a few weddings now and it's been good. Never used flash for speeches though as woa and high iso produced excellent ambient results.

An example of first dance using it:

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Link fixed.

jonneymendoza · 20 Jul 2015 at 09:51

great shots

Vertigo · 20 Jul 2015 at 09:55

Nice

Yeah I generally don't use flash for speeches but the venue on Saturday was seriously dingy and the only (small) windows were right behind the speakers which didn't help.

BananaDunka · 27 Jul 2015 at 19:11

A few more from the last wedding :cool:

^ I wish I'd employed more dof for this one, ah well!

This man licked my ear!

BuffetSlayer · 27 Jul 2015 at 19:28

Some great work in this thread. Some of the stuff a few pages back is brilliant. I'm soon to be getting on the first rung of the ladder with photography and I have a lot to learn. This thread (and a couple of others - I'm looking at you TB and Phal) are great inspiration.