Studio Photography

My local camera club, North Norfolk Photographic Society (www.nonops.org), held a practical evening last Wednesday night. One of the members brought down his studio lights, backdrop etc and a couple of models as well. This being my first time in a studio environment I jumped in at the deep end and offered to go first. Possibly a mistake, I hadn't really given any thought to what I wanted from the models, my mind went blank and there was a somewhat uneasy silence as the rest of the room looked on. Desperate I pleaded for some intervention from the room, further silence! After a while though and with some guidance from John, who's kit it was, the confidence started to grow. I took a lot of shots, probably to many, and got a couple of creditable shots. I have to say I really enjoyed the whole experience and really want to give it another go, this time with a bit more preparation.

I duly posted my efforts over at Talk Photography and ended up with lots of advice on how to improve the pp of the image.

Those you you who follow my flickr pages will see the steps I went through, however here are the before and after efforts on my pp.

Rugby a photographic first for me

Last weekend I recieved a new Optech Pro camera strap, courtesy of a very nice man at Talk Photography called Marcel, who arranged a discounted group buy. It's such a comfortable strap that you hardly notice the camera around your neck. So I decided that it was high time the camera got a good workout.

So I decided to pay my local rugby club a visit, I haven't been to a rugby match in years, probably not since my student days when a trip to Bath was a frequent occurance. Now Holt RFC aren't Bath, but nevermind it's Rugby and I really enjoyed watching the game, probably encouraged by the photographic opportunites.

Heres a few from the set, you can find more on my Flickr page (http://www.flickr.com/photos/w99/).

Mark

glad to be back

I've well and truly neglected this blog in recent times for which I apologise, it's been a hectic and stressful few months. I'll try and do better in future.

Anyway enough for now, I'll post some pictures soon.

Military Vehicles

It's been a while since I posted, to much to do not enough time to do it!

Anyway I stumbled across a military vehicle rally at the weekend, and couldn't resist the opportunity to grab some shots. I e-mailed the rally organisers who like the shots and want to use some on their website. I hope they do it would be great to be published.

Here are a couple for you to see.

UPDATE. I contacted the group holding the rally and they have used my pictures on their website. I'm pleased, no payment but recognition.

Holkham Hall

Went to a talkphotograhy (www.talkphotography.co.uk) meet at Holkham Hall on Sunday. The weather was really overcast so not ideal for good pictures, but we headed out regardless. I was quite pleased with the outcome, although I'm still processing most of them.

Here's a quick selection for you.

We then moved onto Wells for a quick couple of shots of the quay before calling it a day. All in all a really good day and thanks to Mark and Tim for meeting up with me.

Burgh Next Aylsham

Took the opportunity to grab a shot of the River Bure today. Nothing special and it doesn't quite work after being resized, the orginal has a lot more detail. Off to Holkham Hall for a Talk Photography meet on Sunday so hope to have some more interesting shots to post soon.

A trip to Bintry Mill

Took a trip out to Bintry Mill today.

I used to go canoeing here when I was a lot younger, I say canoeing more like being taken away by the fast moving water as the sluice was opened up. I was never any good at caneoing but I enjoyed coming here, it's such a serene place.

So it was time I photographed it. The weather was misty and the sun wasn't quite right so I'm not completely convinced by this shot, I may have to have another crack at it, but this'll do for now.

New Blog Page

Ok so I've jumped into the deep end and decided to create a blog.

I can make no promises as to how often I'll update this page so bear with me. My intention is use this site to post pictures (yes I love photography!) and tell you stuff about me that might be interesting, although probably not.


If you like any of my shots, let me know, am happy to sell at reasonable rates.