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Canon 100L Macro f4 ISO800 1/100. Lit with a video light above and slightly left of camera. I always look forward to the ring shot at a wedding and try to come up with something different each time. Marie spotted the round handle on the door to the strong room at Peckforton Castle, Cheshire and …

Sigma 50mm ISO400 f5.6 1/125. A pretty straightforward view of the River Dee from the Queens Park suspension bridge. The bridge was originally built in 1852 but when Chester Corporation accepted the responsibility for the bridge, they decided to demolish it. This happened in August 1922 and a new bridge took its place. The opening …

After buying and being impressed with a 90cm Westcott softbox, I decided to try out a more portable version and ordered the Mini Apollo kit. These work in a similar way to the larger unit and the flash is fully contained within the softbox. Unfortunately, with any sort of hotshoe mounted trigger the flash will …

Canon 24-70 f2.8L @ 35mm. ISO400 f5.6 1/160 Lit with a 60cm sq softbox with grid. We found this camera in amongst some of Marie’s gran’s things stored in an old suitcase from the 1950′s. There are loads of images from it from 1949-51 in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), along with various newspapers, RAF papers, postcards …

Canon 70-200 2.8L @ f3.5 ISO400 150mm. We had a photo shoot this week with a couple whose wedding is coming up soon and I grabbed a quick portrait of Marie during the session. I liked the slight over exposure on her face, the wind giving a bit of life to her hair and the …

Canon 24-70 at 35mm 1/50s f5.6 ISO200 Two 580EXii’s on lightstands moved around various locations and heights either side of the car, always equal on each side. 1/8th power. Then a flash composite created from 9 or 10 images, masked a little due to strong reflections on the number plate but mainly each layer just …

Canon 24-70 f14 ISO200 5 second exposure at 45mm. I picked up some battery powered LED lights this week and taped them to a piece of plastic tubing to have a go at a light painting effect we wanted to try and achieve. This was a first pass in the garden. Kaya is lit by …

A while ago I wrote an article on how to replace a sky in photoshop. Just to prove you need to learn how to do this and of course that I am still using it myself, here is a great example I just made of a self portrait. Last night I was practising off camera …

Canon 100L Macro f5 1/40 ISO800 – lit with a video light. A slightly introspective start to the 2012 weekly images – the eye that will be working on the next 51 photographs It has had a slight contrast boost, tiny amount of sharpening (TRA web sharpen) and as I am full of cold I …

Canon 70-200 2.8L @ f4 1/60s approx 130mm. I appreciate my first three images are somewhat of a cheat – two from weddings and one I shot as a test. Not exactly shooting especially for the weekly image! I’ve no doubt I’ll pick a few from weddings as I go through next year, but I’ll …