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.
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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.