by Damien | Jul 6, 2015 | Continuous Lighting, Fujifilm X, Location, Studio
A lighting style defined by a £50 accessory It was just under three years ago that I decided to create a set of gobo (go between) filter gels. I wanted to utilise the clips on the barn doors of the then new Lupolux LED spotlights. Luke and I set to work and between us...
by Damien | Jul 6, 2015 | Continuous Lighting, Flash, Fujifilm X, Location
Chantelle and I are off to the South of France on Wednesday for our sell out workshops. Here are a few frames of Chantelle from my last UK workshop held at Manor By The Lake near Cheltenham last month. As you can see variety was the order of the day. Cameras: Fuji...
by Damien | Jun 21, 2015 | Continuous Lighting, Flash, Studio
In this series of shots I show how applying knowledge to lighting can result in very marketable portraits for both the social and corporate markets. It’s not how many lights you have in the studio that matters, it’s what you can do with them that counts....
by Damien | Jun 15, 2015 | Continuous Lighting, Flash, Fujifilm X, Studio
On Friday I was in Liverpool to give two half day lighting demonstrations to the customers of Wilkinson Cameras. I divided the sessions into Hollywood style lighting using the Lupolux continuous lighting and working the Fuji X cameras with flash systems from Cactus...
by Damien | May 4, 2015 | Continuous Lighting, Location
Here are 45 photographs taken wide open on my Fujifilm X-T1 with 16mm f/1.4, 35mm f/1.4 and 56mm f/1.2 prime lenses and my X100t with it’s fixed 23mm f/2 lens. I only used one light and it was a Lupolux 1000 LED daylight balanced spotlight with a colour...
by Damien | Apr 30, 2015 | Continuous Lighting, Location, News
This is my real world comparison between the Fujifilm XF16-55mm zoom with the XF16mm f/1.4, XF23mm f/1.4, XF35mm f/1.4 and the XF56mm f/1.2 prime lenses. I often hear statements like prime lenses are better than zoom lenses. Is that so? Let’s find out…...
