145:365 CSI Pumphy

Helping Ross out with his college Graded Unit - how evil does this lot look.

138:365 The NED

Another shot for my Graded Unit ... this time Kyle being a NED but holding a bible :)

137:365 The Skipper v2

A remake of the last skipping one with Caron, i just wasn't 100% happy with the last ones so re-shot them today, both digitally for testing (image here) and on LF film.

Will nip into college tomorrow to do some scanning of the LF ones and fire them on the LF blog tomorrow.

135:365 Top Trumps

This is just a quick grab shot of the 5x4 slide's of Debbie's Mad Cow Hoovering.

using Lynns craft lightbox to view them.

The negs were processed this afternoon by Trumps of Edinburgh who are absolute stars and did the E6 process in under and hour and a half.

I love the look of the negs (even if Darren ran into shot on this one) and i reckon the colour print (will be scanning on Monday) will look outstanding...

134:365 Poetic Justice

Another couple of shots for my graded unit today, one with the completely nuts Ross Golden (will be on my LF blog tomorrow) and one with the stunning Anna.

Anna, who is also a photographer - you can see her work at http://www.annaturnbullphoto.com/ , and is the NQ class at college helped me out with the shot shown here.

Anna is a bit reader and loves poetry and it is a very precious book she is reading.

Flash was sat in the boot of the car to add effect.

129:365 Tut Tut

A test shot today, my daughter skipping on her brothers bed :)

the film version will be on the large format blog soon

119:365 The Rockstar

An interesting day for me today, nipped into college for a wee while and ordered myself a MPP Microtechnical Mk VIII 5x4 field camera which i'm totally looking forward to.

after seeing the weather gave Scott McKillop a wee txt and we ended up at the side of linlithgow loch doing these for my graded unit.

Really like how they work.

113:365 Salmon Cut

Partly to help out the restaurant, Livingston's in Linlithgow, and partly for my college style life, i had the opportunity to shoot some still life food.

This is - Whisky and Orange Cured Salmon, Rocket, Orange and Shallot Vinaigrette from the starter menu.

Really are nice folks at Livingstons and i can testify to the desserts being utterly awesome.

106:365 The MD

Alex helped Scott and I out earlier today with a few shots at the Black Bull in Mid Calder.

This is pretty much the shot that i done on the LF camera, should be posting that to the LF blog on Monday.

095:365 Swing It

Scott helped me out today with some testing for one of my graded unit shots which will involve someone playing golf.

Strobist wise this shot uses a metz flash camera left on strob (8hz 4 repeats 1/16 power) and flash camera right on full power set to slave on the 4th flash to give a second curtain effect. Added to f8, 0.5 sec exposure got this effect.

Quite happy with this.

094:365 Another Vroom Vroom

Spent another couple of hours today trying to get this to work, much much much happier with this shot.

Shot with flashgun through softbox from above.

think that's my still life stuff all complete now :)

092:365 The Scene

Tonights shot is a set up scene shot for a still life i'm working on...

Just need to wait and see if the next part works

090:365 These Boots Were Made for ...

Today I had a wander into college and chatted to Keith and although i'm not feeling a lot more confident about my interview on Thursday I'm still a bit nervous...

So for todays shot i decided to play with my next still life element which is using "natural light" and used light coming through the kitchen window to light these old boots that i use for the gardening.

I've partially made them black and white and merged the layers to desaturate a little.

Really quite happy with these shots.

085:365 A Policemans Best Friend

Another image for my college still life work this time it's food based.

I love Donuts :)

083:365 Still Life Continues

Spent yet another couple of hours tonight doing some still life work, this time mixing up some whisky glasses and a wine glass.

This is probably the best one for me, i really like the deep red from the rose wine in the wine glass.

Although i still hate doing still life it is growing on me a little more.

082:365 Amber Nectar

Todays shot comes from my testing for our college still life module, i;m not a huge fan of this type of work but i spent a couple of hours this afternoon playing about with some still life stuff.

I quite like the final image here but knowing college i'll have to re-shoot a whole lot of them to get one they will like.

074:365 Mountain Survey

Today i was up really early for a wee trip down to Pauls and we went out to Bellsquarry Woods.

This is one of the test shots for my graded unit and i'm pretty happy with the look.

Shot with a bare flash to camera right.

Thanks Paul :)

071:365 A Guitar Hero

This is another of my large format college project and features my college classmate Ross rocking it out to Guitar Hero at the Kirk of Calder (many thanks to Rev Povey for agreeing to me using the church for this).

I wanted the church to be quite underexposed so dropped the ambient a few stops and then used the flash from the front (bounced into a white card box on the front of the tv) to light Ross and the church and a snooted flash, held by Simon, acts as a rim light.

Shot at 1/15sec, f5.6 using Ilford Delta 100 sheet film and the usual camera kit.

053:365 Through the Glass

Today is a shot that i have taken to use for a college project.

As part of our portraiture block we have to do a number of portaits (including high key, low key, school portrait, group and corporate portraits). This one is one where we were asked to produce a portrait of a family member of group and as such i have used my daughter Caron as the model.

I really didn't want to do a typical high or low key style portrait for this and found a picture of this style in a book about photographing children.

It's a bit of a strange one and is shot with a wide aperture and a long focal length through glass (which is the light reflection).

I deliberately used our back door with me in the garden and Caron in the house as the light was best there and the window is a bit dirty at the moment due to the dog jumping at it :)

I really like this and think it has a bundle of emotion and grit in it and really makes people think.

051:365 The Photographer

I've got a good few shots from today to play with and decide from but have plumped for this one as I just felt it rocked.

This happy young fellow is Duncan Bennett, my friend and fellow photographer.

Duncan happily agreed to helping me out with this portrait which i'm hoping to be shooting similar for my Graded Unit.

This was shot using the Cambo SC-2 Basic, Rodenstock 210mm Lens and Ilford FP4, processed in Ilfosol HC and Scanned using an Epson V700 scanner.