Spring Style 2010

Yesterday I was asked to do the photography for Spring Style a fashion show held in Reading, this year with GMTV style guru Mark Heyes.Had great fun photographing all the great looking models, this is a quick video of some of my images.

I'm a hero in Sweden??

Great new ad for the boy in me, shot on a Canon 5D Mk11

Ian Rudgewick-Brown
http://www.lifestylephotographic.com

I've gone all light fantastic today, a few interesing vids made with still camers.

Making of Vancouver 2010 Freezelight Promo from FREEZELIGHT.RU on Vimeo.

Still photos and some coloured lghts, great result!

Freezelight Elements (Exhibitions Promo) from FREEZELIGHT.RU on Vimeo.

This was made with 35,000 still shots from a Nikon D3, Not Video!

The Sandpit from Sam O'Hare on Vimeo.

Where's me boys at, innit?

Berkelio, Rudgio, Wherefore art thou? Hope this is not turning into a one-legged tripod, as those things are none too stable (insert own humorous comparison here...). Here's a few shots I've taken over here in Thailand; I like that they have a different feel to what you might expect from shots of Thailand. Got inspired by your 'blue light' images on your blog, Ian, so I got up early one morning at the beach; sadly I'd already missed first light, but the light was still low enough that I could take a slow-ish exposure for the first shot and nice light for the second. Got some others, a bit 'blue-er' that I've not worked on yet. Must not put the alarm on snooze so often next time! The last couple were shot on a broken down old railway bridge in Bangkok at sunset; got loads of great stuff there, but these are the first couple I've worked on. Nothing fancy; bit of mid-tone contrast, levels, that's about the size of it. Hope you like...

And by the way, I think we should get another challenge going, post-haste. Why don' one of you guys come up with something, anything you fancy, be creative, and post it up sharpish... I'm getting hungry for some exchange...

how to shoot a tiger...

Happy Year of the Tiger, 2010 brother men! I snuck off for a couple of hours t'other night to one of the main temples in Chinatown here in Bangkok. Sadly it wasn't the actual day of Chinese New Year, but the evening before; still plenty of folk out in their best, celebrating and lighting enough incense to smother an army!! Got some nice shots, just shooting old-skool; hand-held, 400asa, no flash or gadgets; move quickly, look for the light, deep breath in, let it out, squeeze the trigger... shoot that tiger, baby!

Valentine's Special

Inspiration

Crash Taylor (well known wedding photographer and nice guy) has set up this website/blog. Each week interesting images are uploaded & explaining how they were done.
Have a look.

The Still Image

Ian
http://lifestylephotographic.com

I came over all Joyce Tenneson today!

I photographed a wonderful little boy today named Tommy, he is only 2 weeks old and so small!
In these images I was really looking for something different, its so easy in a situation like this to just repeat what you know and shoot in a predictable manner. So with these (the high key ones) I paid homage to the wonderful US photographer Joyce Tenneson, I really wanted to evoke his vulnerability and gentleness, I hope that’s what is communicated in these images.
Nothing too cleaver with the high key shots in PS just moved the levels way over exposed in light room, then bit of dodging and save as sepia toned. The low key images have not had much just levels & curves etc.













Ian Rudgewick-Brown – Photographer
Ian Rudgewick-Brown is a Photographer in Berkshire who specialises in producing timeless images.
He is a contemporary, lifestyle family photographer and produces images of pregnancy, newborn, babies of all sizes, families, teens and also has a commercial side to his business which is predominantly product and service photography as well as formal but approachable portraits for annual reports or PR purposes. Nursery photography is also amongst Ian’s portfolio.
Ian is based in Datchet, Windsor but is available for commission throughout the UK and Ireland.
His main working areas are:- Windsor, Ascot, Maidenhead, Marlow, Henley-on-Thames,
Reading, Wokingham, Bracknell, Egham, Staines, Chobham, Twyford, Wargrave, Bray, Sunninghill, and throughout Buckinghamshire including: Gerrards Cross, Beaconsfield, Chalfont St Peter, Chalfont St Giles, Bourne End and Cookham.
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To contact Ian about your requirements – please go to the contact form on his website or alternatively email him at ian@rudgewick.co.uk or call him on 01753 583 980
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Great marketing ideas to brand your business!

Homoeroticism For Beginners

And here's my effort. Basically we were in a dark hallway in my flat using a single strobe with a snoot on it triggered off camera wirelessly. 10 second exposure set and then point and flash twice with the subject in one place then the other. In other words, 'painting with light' as Ian said.
I've tried a couple of presentations. One as is with a bit of contrast and desaturation. The other I messed about with a bit. It's two layers of the image, one cold and one warm. Then use masking to keep warm skin tones against a cold wall. A bit of enhanced merging of the limbs using the liquify tool (but really not much), then a bit selective focus using Gausian blur.
Easy enough technique but could be used to great effect with a bit of choreography and a more interesting location.
Nuff said. Barker.

Double weird...

Hey chaps... Mr. Berkeley-White and I were playing around recently with a modified form of double-exposures. Basically working in almost no ambient light, with a single long exposure (10 secs or so) and firing a hand held strobe several times with the subject in a different position each time. It was rather fiddly but with a bit of perseverance we began to develop a bit of a method. Here's some of my results from shooting Stephen; what do you think? Interesting? Disturbing? No doubt he'll get his own back and post some of me before long...

I'm always a last minute Larry when it comes to things like this. So, I may have posted the blog after the deadline, but I took the pics before it. Mitch is my witness (sort of).
On the day of the deadline while Mitch was nursing a Herculean hangover at my house, I went in search of a portrait subject on the streets of Walthamstow.
I decided to hijack a previous idea and dive into the Pie n Mash shop half way up Walthamstow market and ask whoever was working there for a portrait. The woman behind the counter was called Lisa, a proper East Londoner and sweet as you like. A little bit of charm and persuasion and she agreed to pose for me while the shop wasn't busy.
While I was setting up an old boy strolled in and joked that I might take a photo of him. I said I'd hold him to it, and I did. I hope he doesn't mind that I've called him PieMashMan. I forgot to write his name down.

Set up was simple. Canon 5D on ISO 400, f/3.5 at 1/50th for the ambient light. And a strobe and small brolly to the right, balanced to fill in. That's it.
I like desaturating my portraits with high-ish contrast, and I'm into the square thing at the mo.

Who's this guy?

Bumped into these shots the other day, anyone you know? The twin towers were up! makes you think.

Ian

Steve your up...?

While we are waiting for Barker Boy check this little lady out! Only 23 self taught, what talent!
Miss Aniela
She has quite a following on Fickr

Ian
Lifestyle Photographic

Mitch is in;

Okay boys, here's my entry. Shot them under an old archway by the side of Dublin Castle; Geoff is putting together a new website and needed some portrait shots. We had to work quickly, as the staircase belongs to Dublin Castle, and therefore you are supposed to have a permit to shoot

there. I've had to get one of those permits on occasion, and believe me, it's a Kafka-esque labyrinth you have to negotiate; suffice to say, I didn't have a permit for this little job.

Pretty dark under there, which I liked for the stairs and the brickwork but not so much for Geoffs' delicate features, so I bunged an SB800 flash on a stand, with a shoot through brolly, and triggered it wireless from another Sb800 on the camera. Slid that stand in as close to Geoff as I could get while still keeping it out of frame and fired away on manual. Quick in, quick out. Just as we were packing up, plod stuck his head round the corner and did his jobsworth bit - "can't shoot here, this is state property" - I always want to come over all revolutionary in these situations ("the state is a construction of it's citizens" etc etc), but I've always found that the best response is to plead ignorance, say sorry, mate, but we're done now anyway and leave smiling.

Very Interesting....

Something about this guys work I really like, he sometimes works as a trash man in Antarctica!
Really fresh work: Lightmonkeys
Have a look?

Ian
http://www.lifestylephotographic.com

Latest Session Video

This is my lastest viewing video I present to my customers, a bit nicer than Venture me thinks!

Rudge up!

Hi Guys,
You said Mitch we have to shoot this baby by the end of the month, so here it is; a baby portrait shoot I did two days ago of a little boy called James, I hope you like it? By the way I'm not that busy! now excepting bookings for Weddings, Christenings, Barmitsfers... Singing..Dancing........anything....etc. etc.....

Ian
Site: http://www.LifestylePhotographic.com
Blog: http://www.PhotographerBerkshire.org

deadline change...

gentlemen, keep your engines running, but you can shift into neutral for a while if you'd like... due to the enviable condition of having too much work on his hands, mr. rudgewick-brown has requested a deadline extension for the delivery of the first three legged tripod creative challenge (way to set a precedent, Rudge). heretofore let it be known that the deadline shall now be midnight on friday 28th january. and if that ain't enough time to shoot this baby, well then we've got no right calling ourselves snappers, now have we, boys?

here endeth the lesson. amen.

the three legged tripod challenge

Mr. Berekeley-White, Mr. Rudgewick-Brown; gentlemen, Start Your Engines!

This is the first installment of the three legged tripod creative challenge - what the #@?!! is that, I hear you cry...
allow me to explain.

Let's get those creative juices flowing and harness the power of this interweb thingamyjig. We take it in turns to set each other specific challenges, with a deadline, by which deadline the final image must be posted on the blog. It's my idea, so I'm getting first pick. Here's the challenge:

A portrait, which must include some background context (location/scenery etc - so not a headshot) of an individual who is not a member of your family. And no archive shots, it's got to be a new one shot specially for this challenge. I reckon a week is plenty of time for this (a nice easy one to begin with) so entries must be on the blog by midnight friday 22nd january. C'mon lads, let's be 'aving yer. Bring on your best shot.

Dare you accept the three legged tripod creative challenge?

Wild day, wild light.

I managed to sneak off from the house, camera in hand, for an afternoon just before Christmas, so I jumped on the Dart train south along the coast with the idea of taking a few shots in an out-of-season-by-the-sea kind of style. It was a day or two before the snow came and I could feel the change in the weather; an arctic wind biting into me from the east, though the sun burned low in the sky. Once I was on the train, heavy cloud began to pile up and hung just above the horizon. My plan was to head out to Bray in the hope that I'd find some leftover detritus from the summer season. An old fairground ride, rusting gently on the seafront, some deckchairs piled wearily on the promenade sagging slowly until the summer came to rescue them, that kind of thing. Me old mucker Ian had done something similar at Bournemouth pier and posted it on his blog (http://photographerberkshire.org/) recently and I wanted to find my own slant (steal his idea) on the theme.

Halfway down the line, the train stopped at Blackrock station and I saw, lowering over the wall which divides the tracks from the seashore, a hulking, rusting edifice. Paint cracked and peeling, fatigued metal rotting, grafitti emblazoned -

well, it'd be rude not to, wouldn't it? So I leapt from the train with the skill and agility of a forty-year old man on a cold day, and tried to get a better view. It was clear that the tower was an old diving platform that belonged to a crumbling, disused open air swimming pool, serviced with water from the sea. Unfortunately it was also clear that I would not be able to get close to it: the pool was surrounded by 20 foot walls, and my telescopic, back-pocket bat-ladder was at the dry cleaners, so I had to content myself with getting a shot from the footbridge that

spanned the tracks.

Mark my words, though: I will be back...

The rusting diving tower at Blackrock

Back on the train, the clouds were getting heavier, but with the sunlight still strong and low behind me, there was a fabulous dramatic feel that I wanted to try and capture, so I forgot about the seaside resort idea, disembarked at Dalkey, and just let the play of light and cloud determine what shots I took. Here's a few of the results...

Into the Big World...

Hello...hello? Is this thing on...?

Welcome to three legged tripod, where three photographers offer up their work, techniques, ideas and musings for rapturous adulation/savage ridicule/complete indifference (delete as appropriate). I've just plugged this thing in and switched it on, and hey presto! it seems to work straight out of the box, so in the near future we'll be adding images, anecdotes, technical discussions and whatever else takes our fancy and hopefully it will grow into a little forum for anyone interested in photography to gain or give inspiration and encouragement.

In the immortal words of television:

Stay tuned...