Posts Tagged ‘at home’
Went out into the garden today where some pretty impressive mushrooms are sprouting on my impeccable lawn. The light situation was not easy so that in the end I used my flash and some white paper as reflectors. Comments welcome as always!
Here a bit of fun! I needed a mugshot the other day – so I set up my flash and jumped around in front of the camera for a while. Remote trigger sorted the picture taking Flash: Off camera right Reflector: Silver reflector to the left of model (well, me anyway) My wife doubted once [...]
Above photograph courtesy of www.phottix.com You could always use a natural light source instead of flash. Here the sun shines into the window from behind the little rascal and I am bouncing it back using a gold reflector like the one above (here is the link)
I love to play around with my flash off camera. Not that I am any good at it, but it does give a much nicer lighting, or perhaps more interesting lighting than walloping your subject with a great big flashgun straight ahead of them! Here I have a couple of examples of both my beautiful [...]
Went out the other day into the garden and found the lavender flowers inundated by bumblebees feeding. So just had to run in, get the camera, sit in wait, and try and fire off a few shots – but these critters are even worse for standing still than my two little ones. Speaking of which: [...]
Sunday morning, sunshine, kids in a good mood — Bliss! Anyway, while having our breakfast on the patio I found a little critter lurking on one of the slab, rushing in to get the camera, but not enough time to set up the tripod…. after all the sun is warming this little one quickly to [...]
