Early photography and movie lights often used fresnel lenses as a way to control the light spread. Generally the light sources can be moved closer or further away to the fresnel lens to alter the spread and nature of the light. Bowens and Elinchrom have both made fresnel modifiers to allow strobes rather [...]
Some photographers, and very successful ones too, have a great recipe that they use time and time again. At it's simplest this recipe might be "the subject sits on an apple box and is photographed whilst being lit by a shoot-through brolley." I don't mean to be dismissive, portraits are about engagement as [...]
It seems like a lot of time has passed since I asked Shushanah if she would like to visit my studio to be photographed, but a couple of weekends ago we spent a pleasant Saturday in the Exeter headshot studio. At the end of the session we had shot with a couple of [...]
Repetition alert! Yes this is a sister post to one on my general website! though this is focussed towards portrait photography. Yes we did it, we got to Madrid! Originally we’d planned to leave Exeter and go at Christmas but Omicron hit the country and it didn’t seem wise. But as we were [...]
There is a story! Giles visited the studio in need of a set images to be shot to an existing house style, but he also had need to update his own profile pictures. I think we both agreed that the house-style shots weren't what we might have chosen to do given a free hand but [...]
It's a while since I've done the weekend-morning dining-room session; so here's one. There's more than one way to skin a cat but fortunately we don't have a cat, some visit the house but normally sit outside, just staring. Most of the headshot photography that I do is in the studio, shot with [...]
My product photography client got delayed so I thought I'd see how the 105 Micro lens works as a portrait lens. I'd also been meaning to try Translum diffusion on the beauty dish rather than the shower-cap that came with it for a while. For a long time I used the 70-200 ƒ/2.8 for all [...]
I’d been meaning to do this for a while and have just picked up a few more scrim/reflector panels which gave the opportunity for this ten-minute test. This is known as the booklight setup and it's used quite a lot by the filumn guys, (moving images not the luddites). The idea is to [...]
I don't know if regular visitors to the studio would notice the change but it is constantly developing. This weekend a ridiculous amount of excitement was had as a result of the arrival of a small, inexpensive steamer (good-part alert) that will also make a cup of tea! As well as the paper [...]
As ever travel is about photography for me and our recent visit to Sicily started at Penny's new house near Menfi! These shots were all taken over a couple of days on our stay at Menfi, quite a few were taken at breakfast, the light was fantastic. My go-to camera the Nikon D810 [...]
