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