by Damien | May 7, 2012 | Continuous Lighting, Flash, Location
I’m one month in with my Fujifilm X-Pro1 ownership. It’s been an interesting journey so far and here are my findings. Being an early adopter of the Fuji XP1 camera system has had one advantage and many disadvantages. This is not just a new camera body but...
by Damien | Apr 25, 2012 | Continuous Lighting, Flash, Studio
I’m finally catching up with my blogging. Here are a few frames from recent studio lighting workshops, 1:1 sessions and the occasional test shoot. They are not all masterpieces but if something inspires you or triggers a thought or idea then they have done their...
by Damien | Apr 25, 2012 | Continuous Lighting, Studio
Last week I was helping an A level photography student realise the ideas she had for a set of pictures and I suggested we use a data projector to project patterns, spots and stripes on people and not use gobos in projector lamps. Here are a few frames I took of my...
by Damien | Apr 4, 2012 | Continuous Lighting, Flash, News, Studio
About once a week at the moment I’m teaching shooting skills on a 1 to 1 basis. This set of shots were taken in my studio last week using basic Elinchrom kit or Dedo lights owned by my client. This journey of evolution for my client is as exciting for me as it...
by Damien | Apr 2, 2012 | Continuous Lighting, Flash, Location
I usually post just a selection of 20 to 40 pictures from my workshops to whet the appetite of future delegates but this time I thought I’d blog the lot. Here are 80 of my pictures taken on the Photographing Couples workshop held in Bristol last week. On my...
by Damien | Mar 29, 2012 | Continuous Lighting, Location, Studio
Day 2 of 2 in Stuttgart was a continuous light session. Boudoir photography is big business in Germany and I showed how I craft exciting pictures from just 1 or 2 Lupolux lights or Arris. Once again the location for the day was the amazing Park Studio run by Bernhard...