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5 comments January 22nd, 2012 09:58pm damien
Here are 54 of Martin’s pictures from our adventure. Click here for part 1, the full story about this shoot, 54 of my pictures and details about the next Fuerventura workshop.
01. Katy McGee against a warm desert sky.
Enjoy… (more…)
11 comments January 19th, 2012 11:32pm damien
“Success happens when preparation meets opportunity”
01. Katy Mcgee out in the desert in the arfternoon sun. I lit Katy with a single Elinchrom Quadra head on a Lovegrove Avenger boom arm. 50mm lens on a Canon 5D mk2 camera.
This adventure was the final stage of the preparation part. Our chance to prove that Fuerteventura is the perfect place for our winter sun location portrait workshop set for January 2013. Martin Hill (AKA Grand Master Flash) and I (more…)
21 comments January 7th, 2012 01:23am damien
Intro: I’m in no way a self proclaimed expert in these matters and I do recognise that there are many ways to make pictures and systems to use that differ from the ones I’ve highlighted in this feature. However, I do produce prints with a high image quality and the processes that I use work for me. I do hope you can find them useful too.
1. Canon 5D mk2, 100mm f/2.8, ISO 125, 1/125th second at f/18 This simple ballet inspired shot of Johanna was lit with three gridded studio lights.
19 comments December 30th, 2011 12:03am damien
The past 12 months have been a challenge for most photographers eking out a living in a contracting market. It’s been tough on some counts but all this economic turmoil has given us the perfect excuse to explore new markets, change the products we offer and to push forward into uncharted waters. Art and humanity have always made great progress in times of trouble, when they have been forced to take on new directions.
Click on the picture to visit this years gallery. There are 372 pictures and their exif data in easy to browse galleries.
Fashion in wedding and portrait photography has always been (more…)
21 comments December 22nd, 2011 07:18pm damien
01. A picture of Iskra Lawrence taken with my Canon 5D ir camera.
Over the past few months I’ve done numerous shoots and have barely had time to edit them let alone blog them. Here are a few of my recent shots taken in the studio. They are not award winners, just run of the Lovegrove mill.
I’m moving on to new styles and genres for 2012 and it all takes a lot of research and most of all practice. Practice is what make the results flow. Nothing is more exhilarating than experimenting with new ideas. It’s a kind of creative buzz that feeds my soul.
I’ve blogged a staggering 5700 pictures in 2011 alone. What does this go to show? Well, it certainly means I’m prolific. I’m happy not to chase perfection but to achieve a consistent quality. I love to capture emotion and soul in my work. I shoot collections, and when I shoot for clients, I shoot for albums, big albums. A typical family portrait will result in 40 – 120 prints in the album. I never blog my client work, just my workshops, 1:1 shoots and some of my personal work.
If my blog readers like 3 or 4 of the images in each of my posts I’m happy. I started numbering my photographs this year to see what ones are the most successful and to my surprise the ‘hits’ varied considerably. I’m learning a lot about photography and about myself at the moment. The way I see the world is not quite the same as most people I know with the exception of Francesca my daughter. I’m often considered strange, metro-sexual is a word banded around me and I like to think I can recognise and capture beauty in a respectful and elegant way.
Over the next few days I’ll be whittling down those 5700 pictures to produce my definitive best of 2011 set. Will I make the right choices? No, but I’ll be happy with them and sometimes that’s all that matters.
Please enjoy this slightly random and motley set of recent studio portraits. (more…)
32 comments December 20th, 2011 10:07am damien
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It was a bitter wind that worked it’s way through the abandoned asylum. A wind that chilled us to the the core. The light was constantly changing as the clouds and occasional sunlight raced by. I was nursing a blank unthinking state that I inherited from the Christmas bash I’d been to the night before. My Canon seemed overkil for what I wanted to shoot so I opted to shoot with my Fuji X100 instead. There are a couple of Canon shots here but like the Quadra kit my 5D seemed to invasive for the moment.
I was joined on the shoot by my friend and fellow photographer Brett Symes. Between us we managed to direct and construct several scenarios. Chloe Jasmine provided the level headed thinking and the fabulous palette of emotion that I’ll never tire of shooting. This really is the result of a team effort. Enjoy
Add comment December 19th, 2011 04:44pm damien
We have changed the hosting service for this blog. Prophotonut has now been sucessfully migrated to a more robust and faster server with more bandwidth and less down time. We have had over 1 million visitors and with 3000 minutes of visitor time per day things were getting a bit slow. You should all see a marked improvement in the transfer speed for this site from now on.
Over the coming days I will be blogging a series of posts featuring my recent photographs. I’ll also be compiling my best of 2011 collection. Thank you for your patience over the past few weeks while I’ve been launching the Lighting Studio Portraits video production and putting in a stronger IT foundation for our business.
Pictures galore will follow over the next few days.
Kindest regards, Damien.
19 comments December 12th, 2011 01:06pm damien
Here’s one more chapter from the latest DVD production showing the use of one continuous spotlight to create a simple fashion style portrait taken on a Fujifilm X100. Details of the download procedure and the double DVD options are below. (more…)
18 comments December 8th, 2011 03:34pm damien
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I’ve been studying the work of a few major European portrait studios on my quest for learning new shooting styles and I’m drawn to a few of the looks that I’ve had a go at recreating here. I used just (more…)
15 comments December 6th, 2011 11:03pm damien
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Here is my feature length guide to posing groups for weddings. From the formal to the casual every group needs careful consideration.
Picture 1. Our American clients love a group shot to be constructed with thought and design. For this picture I set each of the guys in their place in turn by showing them (more…)
7 comments November 30th, 2011 03:35pm damien
This is a sample chapter using just one Studio Flash head at a distance of one metre from Chloe Jasmine Whichello. (more…)
10 comments November 29th, 2011 08:12pm damien
It’s here, after 18 months of hard work, planning and shooting, my definitive video production sharing everything I know about using studio lights to create portraits both in a studio and on location has arrived. Over three hours of finely shot and edited HD video production reveal all my secrets of effortless picture making. The process is everything, and I share with you how you can make it happen.
This video production is the pinnacle of my career to date. Nothing withheld, I show you how to create award winning images with just one light. I go on to show how to take command of a big rig and produce studio images with life, vitality and soul. Enjoy…
30 comments November 28th, 2011 08:56pm damien
Wow, I’m honoured and excited to receive this top award from the Guild of Photographers.
A press statement that I’ve just received declares that: The Guild of Photographers has given it’s ultimate accolade, that of ‘Master of the Craft’ to Damien Lovegrove in recognition of his skills and commitment to the art of photography and the training thereof. The award has only been given to 5 other photographers throughout the world! After fifteen years of top flight image making, Damien has become one of the foremost trainers of photography and entrepreneurial business strategies in our industry. A published writer and regular columnist, Damien has travelled the globe sharing his knowledge and expertise and clearly has a contagious enthusiasm for photography and the development of others.”
Thank you The Guild of Photographers this award is greatfully received.
7 comments November 25th, 2011 10:27pm damien
14 comments November 25th, 2011 12:46pm damien
01. Don't shoot me.
Here are a few fun portraits taken alongside my friend and ‘Evolver’ Marc Godfree. We shot at a local derelict institution using two Speedlights, an umbrella and a pair of lightweight stands with Gemini brackets. The Speedlights were set in manual mode and triggered using Pocket Wizard Plus 2 units. (more…)
23 comments November 20th, 2011 07:22pm damien
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It’s been a while since I’ve used just Speedlights with a splash of ambient to light interior portraits. I’ve had several requests for a workshop that specifically covers using Speedlights and balancing them with interior ambient light. So my team decided (more…)
11 comments November 19th, 2011 05:03pm damien
I’ve been busy since my trips to Spain and Italy teaching photography on a 1:1 and 1:2 basis. I’ve taught five sessions in the past two weeks, all of them different and targeted exactly to my clients needs. With a private session, I can expand on a photographers existing skill base and help develop new products for their customers, old and new.
For this session I was joined by two women photographers from the same studio. Their brief was to shoot a set of boudoir images that could easily be taken in a clients home using both the existing available light and just one other continuous light.
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The day was dark, very dark. The morning started with one of the heavy skies that gave a constant drizzle and by lunchtime the rain had stopped but the darkness never lifted. I used just (more…)
2 comments November 18th, 2011 11:28pm damien
Here is a selection of the pictures taken by my friend and fellow tutor Martin Hill on our latest workshop in Spain last month.
The full story and the previous pictures are in these posts: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
Martin has since been in India photographing a fabulous wedding and has just processed these wonderful images for my blog. Enjoy…
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30 comments November 8th, 2011 10:51pm damien
As if two days of intensive living and photography weren’t enough Chris and I decided to have some fun on a third day and shoot from lunchtime until dark on the streets of Pisa. We chose to keep it simple and not to use Speedlights, just the ambient light plus the light from my torch. A group of delegates joined us and we were off. Here are 38 of my pictures.
Our models were Charo Galura and Deborah Lyli Parcesepe
01. A low angle viewpoint and full sun make this shot of Charo and someone else's Fiat 500 work so well.
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