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I think birds have expressions too. I love the grumpy look on this one's face. He was guarding the feeder and was really annoyed at the other birds.
My friend Hector pretending to be grumpy :))
Lighting: AB1600 in large softbox to left, AB1600 with 40% grid from rear right, Einstein with gird from rear left, reflector bottom front, fired by radio.
This is my folk's version of a grumpy cat! ;) Her name is Penny and she's turning 17 this August!
Olympus OM-D E-M5
Leica DG Summilux 25mm f1.4
04 A hastily-edited taster from my first studio shoot yesterday, taken at Studio 101 in Deptford. I have wanted to shoot some "proper" portraits for a while and have been toying with the idea of buying a small lighting set-up for home. In reality, we don't have the space so hiring somewhere for half a day seemed like good way to get a feel for it (and potentially get some shots to promote myself to paying customers; there are a lot of young families in Brockley!).
Given that I don't really know how to use my hotshoe flashgun properly, working with four lights was a challenge, to say the least. As ever, pictures which looked fabulous on the camera's 3" lcd screen have all manner of imperfections when viewed on 27" of iMac glory - I guess this is why pro photographers often shoot tethered to a computer. Still, it was a fun and relatively inexpensive morning where I got to hang out with some friends and their kids, and I have learned a lot for next time. Here are my top tips for anyone wanting to give it a go themselves:
1. Buy a light meter and know how to use it, or make sure you get the studio to explain theirs before the person you're hiring from leaves. I did a bit of research and reading about light placement and measurement before I went, and I took a diagram of a basic portrait studio set-up. The 'free introduction to studio lighting with every first booking!' was some mumbled words about turning the brightness up and down on the flashes and not rolling the background out too far if you wanted to avoid a £6 per metre charge for dirtying it. I knew the values I wanted from the different lights but I couldn't figure out how to measure them, so it was trial and error with the power settings.
2. If you can't measure the light values, at least check to see whether the lights are all the same power output! Only when I was packing up did I notice that the two lights I had been using to light the background (one either side) were different - 200w to the left, 400w to the right. Result? A much darker area to the left of most shots! This is more pronounced because my key light was coming from the front right of the subject. So despite dialling in the same number on each background light, I was effectively getting twice as much power from the right hand one. Bum.
3. Pay the £6 for some fresh background! Or £12, or £18 - whatever you need to get a pure white, clean floor and wall. At the time I was thinking, "I can sort that out in post." What a fucking ball-ache it is to do! I am not an experienced Photoshop or Lightroom user, and I hate spending loads of time post-producing images. If you're the same, pay for some new paper.
4. Find a studio which has lights which can keep up with your camera's frame rate. About 15-20% of my shots were black because the studio flash didn't refresh in time. I don't know about these things, so maybe 5fps is too fast for studio shoots; but if you're trying to shoot a jumping child, you want all the chances you can get.
So, all-in-all a good experience. I can see myself getting more into studio photography. More pics from this set to follow, once I've dealt with those backgrounds...
Can you survive the searing anger of GRUMPY CAT?
Made for a silent auction winner, inspired by her favorite refrigerator magnet.
Happy New Year!!!!
First post of the year. Thought I's ease it in...been severely lacking in motivation lately as Christmas was very stressful this year. Almost no time off work, the only day I took off we drove to a neighbouring city and bought ourselves a new car...absolutely no time to go out shooting. My camera was only out of the bag two days.
Anyways, enough bitching about the old year. For the new one, my girlfriend gave me an awesome present!! A phototrip with Arild down to England to visit Tony, Andy and the rest of the guys from out Lofoten "Expedition". Arild and my girlfriend tricked the hell out of me!! "Nah, February is no good for me...my old lady (now his wife! oh yeah, he recently got married) has ordered a trip to the canaries at that time..." That lying sack of shit. ;-D I can't wait to go...man, good friends, good beer (cheap as well!!) and great photo locations! Trip of a lifetime!!
Sooo. On to the picture:
This shot is my first ever attempt at macro...man, it was MUCH harder than I thought it would be!! It is actually a 100% crop of one of the flowers on a tiiiiiiny little cluster of flowers. The "head" can't be more than a millimeter big, if that much! Macro is really interesting, but I think I'll keep to taking landscape shots for now.
Tech
Canon 5D
Canon 100m f/2.8 USM Macro
Macro Ring Lite MR-14EX
f/2.8
1/200 sec
ISO 100
Hopefully lots more of me to come this year than the last! Stay tuned!!
PS: I more or less haven't been near a computer for two weeks now, so sorry for not commenting in this period. Will try to get over as much as I can, but it might prove difficult!
Cheers
HÃ¥kon
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See the blog post for more info: Cafe Grumpy
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This little stoneware lidded jar is shaped like a grumpy pig. Perhaps he's a bit miffed that someone did not share that last sweet with him...
For anyone who has had the pleasure of seeing my dearest friend, HappyPlatypus', pictures of his darling Blueberry, you know that Blueberry has been ill for a couple of weeks now. I was informed the day after I took this picture that the mysterious illness that he had was actually caused by an entire shoestring he ate, WHOLE. I won't mention how this discovery came about! Ewwww, yuck!! The string was still in one piece and that is all I am saying. Blueberry is now feeling much better, but now I don't blame him for looking so grumpy in this shot!! Silly shoestring eater!!!
This was a very sluggish and rather grumpy watersnake. Today was the first warm day in some time--it may have just emerged from hibernation--perhaps that explains all the mud.
Taken with my 16-year-old Nikon Coolpix 4500. I recently managed to resurrect it with the purchase of a new battery. Seems to be working, though it is prone to lose saved shooting parameters and date/time. Still handy when I do not want to lug my DSLR.