Comments on: Birmingham urban portraits – Pictures

By: Gav Harrison

Gav Harrison — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:53:30 +0000

thanks so much Damien, please let me know when this the video goes live!

Gav

By: karl

karl — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:04:37 +0000

with reference to the nikon remote settings, if finances allow get a couple of the new sb900 they have been designed with remote work in mind therefore much easier to
understand.
Karllson….

By: damien

damien — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:33:36 +0000

SB 800 settings for remote use is worthy of a blog post of it’s own. Start by pressing on the center button of the nav control for 5 seconds then use the navigation to go down and right until you get to the remote control panel. Select it and make it active then nav down to the word ‘remote’ then select it by pressing the on / off momentarily. Adjust the settings as required before screaming.

Damien.

PS: I’ll do a video of the sequence because words can’t describe the sequence needed hence the near useless manual.

By: damien

damien — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:27:54 +0000

You can do nearly anything in Photoshop that you can do in Lightroom but it takes longer. Lightroom is better for sorting, renaming, bulk adjusting, exposure tweaking and colour setting. Photoshop is better for spot adjustments, layer effects, text effects and pixel level tweaking.

I hope this helps.

Damien.

By: Mark Pollock

Mark Pollock — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:43:48 +0000

Hi Damien

Love your work! Have the book, DV’s and looking forward to your latest edition.

I have not used Lightroom, can you get the same effect from photoshop?

By: Gav Harrison

Gav Harrison — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:35:10 +0000

Hi Damien I spoke with you at the NEC this year following your talk at the Ephotozine stand (so did thousands more I expect!)

I’m trying to get the knack of using the SB800 off-camera but am struggling to get the settings right so that I can adjust the power output once it’s being operated in the ‘remote trigger’ mode..

Is there any chance of you uploading a step by step instruction on how you do it? I’ve tried using the manual, but end up more confused!

Thanks muchly… loving the work… still! Using your techniques at every wedding shoot I’ve done since the start of May (35 to press this year!)

Gav

By: damien

damien — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:03:10 +0000

It’s not just the scrum factor that’s the problem at times. If I want to shoot in an alleyway or in a canal tunnel then it becomes a problem with the available light being blocked out.

By: Ian McGraw

Ian McGraw — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:07:55 +0000

Yeah imagine it gets into a scrum with everyone trying to get a shot in.

By: damien

damien — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:46:54 +0000

Hi Ian,

Probably not as I prefer to work with a maximum of 4 photographers when ‘on the street’. It makes the learning experience so much better especially if it rains. A herd of 10 photographers becomes a bit unwieldy. I’m sure you understand.

Cheers, Damien.

By: Ian McGraw

Ian McGraw — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:06:07 +0000

Doing any more BIPP courses? Am a member.

By: Andrew Bainbridge

Andrew Bainbridge — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:31:47 +0000

cheers for yesterday mate, it was great – always amazes me what you can do with speed-lights.

cheers

andrew

By: Stuart

Stuart — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:12:50 +0000

I think the images are great, I like the mood of number 2 very much. I just look at these images and wish…… I could get results like this. I just get very frustrated when I cannot achieve these kind of images . I know you do courses etc. but I can’t afford them full stop! Oh yeah and I know you do DVD’s too before you say

May be I’m being hard on myself but I want nothing more than to be able to create images and go WOW, did I really do that. You contniue to inspire and offer help which is great, anyway enough of me waffling on….. I will get there.