How it works *sometimes*0
I want to be… a tree…0
neil posted in Travel on December 19th, 2011
This tree.
This tree is so unbelievably badass that when it was knocked down by a storm it just shrugged its branches and went on growing.
Sideways.
Now its like ten trees.
Washout0
neil posted in Travel on December 16th, 2011
So its been awhile. With good reason. This hasn’t been my best year of photography yet. I spent a wonderful three weeks in Melbourne and New Zealand, but photographically it was a washout. I was hoping for my Holga frames to produce something unexpected and beautiful (isn’t that the point in a Holga?) they arrived today and it wasn’t to be.
So I’ll work to do better this coming year. My taste has improved, I have diagnosed a lot of the blandness in my lighting and I’m itching to try some new stuff. There are some local magazines and publications I am interested in shooting for and Bristol is bursting with life and energy. I hope to take a workshop (or two) and find the passion I lacked this year.
In the meantime, enjoy the flower macros. I will see you in the new year.
Two weekends in Bristol0
neil posted in Bristol on November 8th, 2011
Does your Strobist shoot look like this?0
neil posted in Photos, 5Dmk2 on September 11th, 2011
Another photograph I needed to get out of my head. Inspired by a winner at the BP portrait awards and realised with the help of everyone you see in the picture (except James! Who was genuinely asleep…). I have been to a dozen Strobist photoshoots and often wondered if the photoshoot would make a more interesting picture than the ostensible subject. It is also quite strange to be surrounded by large & obscure pieces of lighting equipment, often at quite close quarters, while someone points a merciless piece of digital recording equipment at you. Here I put my camera on a tripod and triggered it from the camera you see in my hands. Some more work could be done to make the light more ‘motivated’ and find excuses for the beauty dish on the changing are and the orange gelled strobe on James. The studio you see belongs to Scott Hunter (http://www.shot2stun.com/) and was extremely well equipped including the beer you see on the floor and a lovely boomed & gridded softbox.





