Ever since I first set foot into Greenwich foot tunnel some seven years ago or so I thought it would make a great location for a photo shoot. A couple of weeks ago this plan was eventually made reality in collaboration with model Janelle. All shots were taken with 50mm and 85mm prime lenses and an external flash gun using bounce flash off the tunnel’s white walls. It’s quite dim down there which is why the camera’s sensitivity was set to ISO 400. Thanks to Janelle for braving the cold. Click through to see the shoot’s results on flickr.
When setting up this blog I thought it was a good way to showcase some of my portraiture work….so here we go.
These are the results of a photoshoot with actress Becca back in September last year. We shot in Becca’s flat with a very simple setup - one flashhead with a softbox (camera right) and a reflector.
The lovely make-up is Haleigh Maskall’s work. You can find out more about Becca on her website and see all images from the session here.
I have just finished installing Windows Live Writer on my brand new Samsung NC10 netbook and thought writing a quick blog entry about my recent trip to Cuba would be a good way of testing the new setup.
The last two weeks in November I spent traveling through the Western regions of Cuba. We flew into Havana, stayed there for four nights and explored various parts of the city.
Then we went on to Viñales in the Pinar del Rio region where we stayed 3 nights. We made a trip to the beautiful Cayo Levisa and hiked through the Valle de Viñales. The next stage of our trip took us to colonial Trinidad in the Sancti Spiritus region. We liked our casa particular here so much that we eventually ended up staying for five nights. Continue reading ‘Viaje por Cuba’
The palace in Schwetzingen (near Heidelberg in Germany) used to be the summer residence of the princes Karl Philipp and Karl Theodor and was first documented in 1350. You can find more information about it on German Wikipedia.
It’s one of these things. I lived for about nine years only 45 minutes drive from there and did not even know the place existed. However, moving abroad has somehow made me more sensitive towards all things cultural and historic. As a consequence, when I nowadays go home to visit my family, I always try to visit as many places and see as many things in the region as possible. Continue reading ‘Schlosspark Schwetzingen’
Last Thursday I went to see a(nother) gig of the fabulous Laetoli Steps at the Miller of Mansfield which is a Pub in Borough and conveniently happens to be very close to my office.
I had promised the guys to take some pictures but unfortunately the light turned out to be quite tricky, all red and yellow. Whatever camera you shoot with, its white balance won’t be able to cope with these conditions and neither did mine. The out-of-camera results weren’t very nice and not even recoverable in RAW conversion. So I decided to convert the images to black and white.
I used the Channel Mixer in CS3 (with the monochrome box ticked) and then did some contrast fine tuning with Levels. Y Continue reading ‘Laetoli Steps @ The Miller of Mansfield - in Black & White’
…and I am afraid it won’t be a very exciting one…pretty much a test exercise. So I have finally managed to sort out a webspace with an SQL database and even installed wordpress on it. Hopefully there will be opportunities (and time) to publish an article here and there and I would be even more delighted if somebody actually read the stuff…but you never know…maybe somebody will.
In any case, I reckon most future contributions on here will have some relation to photography, walking, cycling, London or a combination of two or more of these. I have until now occasionally put messages up on my myspace blog but myspace is just too 2007 and therefore from now on it won’t be updated. If you want to see it anyway, you can find it here.
That’s it for now, the next task will be to change the appearance of this wordpress blog. Do they have skins or themes or something that you can download? Well, I’ll start my research right now, so this is where my first post has to end. Bye for now.