Month: October 2008
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Trip to London
Yesterday I went on a trip up to London to see some galleries and a day out with the family. Didn’t take many photos, but here are a couple I did take. This second-hand book shop was under one of the bridges on the river Thames. The main thing I went to see in London…
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The full moon
After finishing a job last week I noticed how big and bright the moon was, so got out the 70-200mm and put a 1.4x tele-extender on it and this was the result. I had never really looked at the moon in much detail before that, but it is pretty fascinating. For anyone who is interested…
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Abi Penhale – Location shoot
Recently Abi and I went and shot some photos for her book, for once the English weather proved to be nice enough that we could shoot out side, in the sun! A rare treat this year… Rather than shoot in the studio got out on location around Oxfordshire. I shot using just a long lens…
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Local shoot
I had a fun shoot with my friend Local in my studio the other day, trying to get some fun different shots, nothing too pretty! Went for quite an exagerated lighting setup and post processing. Always fun to get a few props involved, getting wild with an axe… Found a really small little chair which…
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Sigma 10mm f/2.8 fisheye lens review and samples
For a long time there were simply no real options for Canon photographers using crop sensor digital SLRs if they wanted to shoot with fisheye lenses. Tokina was the first to address this with their Tokina 10-17mm f/3.5-4.5. I considered buying this lens, but it seemed to have some image quality issues, particularly with regard…