Comments on: Bristol ‘Urban Portraits’ – Pictures

By: Santhosh

Santhosh — Mon, 25 May 2009 06:50:31 +0000

Hello Damien
Happy to see those photos above. I noted that you tend to use very low fstops such as 2.8 and 4 etc. But how do you expect them to be blown up, especially when the images you’ve shot show a nature of good advt hoardings of cosmetics?

By: damien

damien — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:16:34 +0000

Hi James,

I understand your situation. I have considered running weekend courses. There are however two main reasons for the midweek only workshops. Most of my delegates are busy shooting weddings or portraits at weekends and I value the extra time I can share with my family now that I have retired from shooting Saturday weddings.

Damien.

By: James

James — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:21:56 +0000

Hi Damien

Have you ever considered doing any of these courses on a weekend?

I would love to attend one of your portrait sessions but the cost of the course combined with having to take a day off work makes this prohibitive.

Regards

James

By: John Wilson

John Wilson — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:39:15 +0000

Damien,
Thanks again for a great day shooting Urban Portraits in Bristol. I came away with lots of new found skills and some great shots of Jasmine. Looking forward to putting all of this into practice around my own patch now that I have the knowledge and confidence.

John

By: Raymond

Raymond — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:20:49 +0000

Hi Damien,

Very nicely taken portraits!! And great use of flash! I have always wanted to do more with my speedlight. And today you have demonstrated that! Keep posting!

Cheers!

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:08:05 +0000

Very nice Damien. Good to see that very simple, and accessible (daylight, Speedlight, & lightbox!?) lighting set ups can help create such a variety of beautiful images.

No excuse for any of us then. We don’t need fancy, large or expensive lighting rigs.

Thank you.

By: Jenny Tremlett

Jenny Tremlett — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:15:02 +0000

Hi Damien

Thanks for yesterday. I really enjoyed myself and learned a lot.

Great use of locations, lighting and, of course, dingle!

Now I just have to try and remember everything and, more importantly, put it into practice to enforce what I learned.

Jenny

By: damien

damien — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:46:28 +0000

Hi Dave,

I’ve always shot RAW and so the picture styles are not necessary. I set the look for each shot in Lightroom.

I use AWB at the taking stage and decide what it should be later.

Damien.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:25:23 +0000

Hi Damien,

Out of interest, when you shoot with the 5D, what setting do you tend to use for your images i.e. standard, portrait, neutral etc?

Also, for white balance, do you tend to use AWB and alter to suit in post production?

Thanks
Dave.