How I plan a landscape shoot
Today I thought I’d write a little post around what I put into planning a day of landscape shooting. The first thing I’ll do before a trip like my recent trip to the Lake District is to check the weather, re-check it, and then check it again. The weather in the UK is so varied [...]
My favourites from 2011
It’s that time again…. In keeping with the last couple of year’s reflections on the year that was (2010 here, and 2009 here) below are my 12 14 favourite images from 2011. Slightly different from these previous entries though, I haven’t picked one image from each month, I’ve simply tried to pick my 12 (which [...]
Do I miss film? Nope….
Digging through my archives I came across this image I made a few years back on my Hasselblad 503. It’s a scan of black and white negative that I developed myself. I miss the tactile nature of the process of developing film. I don’t miss the faff, mess, smell, stinging eyes, and did I mention [...]
Like a moth to the setting sun
As I tweeted the other day, once again I found myself in Manchester chasing the setting sun like a moth round a dying light bulb. I arrived I guess probably around 45 minutes before the sun was scheduled to set with nothing specific in mind. I had a loose plan to shoot the tops of [...]
Misty trees by the river Bollin
To buy a print of this image, click here. One from the archives for you today. Taken around spring last year down by one of my photographic “muses” – the river Bollin in deepest Cheshire. Shot using a Lensbaby Composer to give the selective focus before I had a tilt/shift, sorry perspective control lens, this [...]
Anna – Part 2
This is the second part of this shoot that I did with Anna a couple of weeks ago. I’ve been longing to use this brick pre-war bus shelter on Wicker Lane in Hale Barns for a model shoot for ages and this particular afternoon fitted the bill perfectly. My original plan had been to place [...]
Model shoot with Anna and June’s selected links
The other week I was lucky enough to have the pleasure of working with the lovely Anna again. We did 3 separate location shoots, though the last one was a complete disaster for one reason and another, but the less said about that the better….. Instead I’m going to give you a quick insight into [...]
Engagement shoot with Jay and Vicky
The morning of that fateful night at Wembley for the Champions League final I shot Jay and Vicky just round the corner from their home for their engagement. Time was very tight for all of us to say the least, but within around 30 minutes of dropping a light stand, we were wrapping up and [...]
Manchester… devoid of life
So this has been a hectic week, what with the bank holiday, trying to re-shuffle a terabytes worth of data around to improve my workflow and just general crap – thus the missed post on Tuesday. Apologies. However, now that I have additional storage hooked up and ChronoSync schedules amended, things are now cookin’ [...]
Malta street scenes
In an attempt to improve my SEO, and to show off a little more of my work, I’m going to to try and move up to a bi-weekly posting schedule. No, that doesn’t mean I’m going to start posting on transgender topics! So as part of my new schedule, here’s another couple of images from [...]
Nik’d Trees
I’ve been concentrating on shooting trees lately for a wall coverings company in the North West. So having splashed out on Nik’s Complete Collection at Focus last week, I thought I’d have a little peak at HDR Efex Pro.
The uniforms spoil another shoot
A couple of weeks ago, an image that I’d like to make took shape in my mind. One of numerous on a daily basis. This one in particular was of a musician seated on a wooden chair playing a guitar with a cityscape in the background. I spent a little time working on the details [...]
Best of 2010
Once again, I’ve gone through all my images shot during 2010 and selected what I feel to be my best images. Thanks to my revised Lightroom workflow and organisation it was a significantly less painful task than last year, and when I compare the final selection to last year’s post (see here) I definitely feel [...]
Hale Head Lighthouse
For one reason and another, I decided the other day that I’d like to make an image of the lighthouse that sits on the North bank of the Mersey estuary near Warrington. I spent some time using Google Maps, Ephemeris and a raft of other tools to try and work out a good vantage point [...]
Selected from the web – August 16th
It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these, but there’s some interesting stuff in here I thought I’d share. 13 Places Take Beautiful Motion Blur Shots Business Day Thursday: How I Sell My Wedding Services 20 Eerie Black and White Seascapes | Light Stalking B.MOORE VISUALS – Entertainment and Concert Photography by Brad [...]
20 Eerie Black and White Seascapes | Light Stalking
20 Eerie Black and White Seascapes | Light Stalking
Swinging Tyre
As part of my final A-level project for this year, I’ve been spending a lot of time round one of my old play areas as a kid. The River Bollin meanders from the hillsides on the edge of Macclesfield Forest, through deepest darkest Cheshire, crosses the Manchester Ship Cancal near the Lymm viaduct and gets [...]
Macclesfield Forest
For the final part of this year’s Photography A-level I’m working towards at the moment, I have been given the theme “Rhythms and Cycles”. I have chosen to make a series of photographs of the the River Bollin. I wanted to show the cycle of water from the rain falling around the start of a [...]
Black and White Photography: 100 Pieces of Exquisite Portrait | Inspiration
Black and White Photography: 100 Pieces of Exquisite Portrait | Inspiration
Shot of some pears in a collander lit with off-camera flash
As I tweeted the other day, my latest little off-tangent project is to shoot something, anything, in a Chiaroscuro style. And this is what I’ve ended up with. Its pretty much as I’d envisaged from the outset, so that in itself is an achievement! Image has been monotoned in Lightroom with a heavy vignette. Strobist: [...]
Another trip to Kinder
Headed over to Kinder in the Peak District again on Saturday morning, slightly better equipped this time (I had walking boots & wide angle lens with me this time). The light was clearly going to be a vast improvement on the previous weekend, and my expectations were high. Laden with quite a chunk of kit, [...]
From Windows to Mac…..
Regular followers of my blog will have noticed that there has been a marked down turn in the frequency of posts of late. The main reason for this is not sheer laziness as some will have assumed, but I’ve taken the plunge and gone and got myself a MacBook Pro. While fathoming out how to [...]
Misty morning
Jumped off the M6 around dawn on Tuesday and stumbled across this scene. It was bright, but very misty and even though I’d decided I wasn’t going to do anymore landscapes, I just couldn’t resist this. The first one (top) is shot with the D300 & 18-200 at 112mm. 1/320 sec at f8. Processing details [...]
“Tower in the Mist”
Shot this in Manchester this morning. It was a very gloomy and miserable day, and the top of the Beetham Tower was enshrouded in mist. Took this with the Sigma 30mm 1.4 (which I really don’t use enough) at F1.4 1/2500 sec. I’ve played with it a little in L/room – added a lot of [...]
