Winter Woods

Grabbed this using natural light, and thought it was the perfect chance to have a go at an Emily Soto look, she always manages to get a soft natural look while still keeping the image striking and focused on the subject, and is always putting foliage or something between the lens and the subject, which is of course a big no no but she manages to pull it off. I really recommend checking out her work at emilysoto.com, I am pretty obsessed with her at the moment. She seems to use a Mola beauty dish for pretty much everything with a bit of kicker light from a hand held speed light now and again, hmmmm 600 bucks for a metal dish, ah well better get saving again.

Morning Quiet

A couple of long exposures from Berrow Beach which is about 20 miles west of Bristol. When I got there around 5am I was the only person there and it was so peaceful. Very different story by 6 when hundreds of people came out to walk their dogs! all of which could smell the breakfast I had on me.

Untitled – A New Project

I am currently scouting out scenes for a collaborative project I am starting, which involves combining monochrome long exposure photography with manipulated audio. This means i am currently scouring the coast to find locations. The project is still in its infancy, i am not even sure if I will shoot digital or 8×10 film yet.

While I am far from any images that will go towards the final project the scouting is throwing up some images I thought were worth sharing. Be sure to subscribe to via RSS or email (in the sidebar) to stay updated as the project evolves.

24 hours at Gower Beach

We shot out to the Gower in Wales last weekend, we spent less than 24 hours there but we walked until it was dark and were up and walking again before it was light. You get to see so much in these hours as the light is constantly changing.

I spotted this on the way out, we tired to find it that night but couldn’t and I am glad we didn’t as we did find it the next day on the way back, and as you can see from the shot below its not the kind of place you want to get stuck in the pitch black.

Just sitting on the dunes in the morning with Soph, watching the light continually paint different scenes with nobody else around was beautiful.

As we walked down the beach that morning, right at the moment we reached this large hunk of drift wood the sun seemed to burn its way through the thicker gray clouds.

We decided to hike up the the north point of the Gower beach to watch the sunset. However the eons of rock strata that are pushed up over millions of years were perfectly lit by the sun so I decided to shoot this instead.

Mud!

Great weekend light hunting in Wales. Sometimes you have to get dirty to get the shot you want…and other times you have to get really dirty. This weekend ended knee deep in the Loughor Estuary which outlets to the Gower.

It was all worth it though, shots to come soon.

 

Lyme Regis

With an engagement shoot at Lyme Regis this Sunday, I seized the opportunity to try out some tips gained from the always edifying David Nightingale at the Seattle Creative Live workshop on Dramatic Imagery. Here is one of the captures comprising of 8 different exposures. This still wasn’t enough to capture the entire dynamic range of the scene but I was short on time as I was also setting up for the shoot, however It was great to get to try out some of David’s suggestions.

Jen & Mike’s engagement shoot

I had it very easy this Sunday. Great location, great couple and even the odd bit of increasingly scarce blue sky. Lyme Regis is a particularly beautiful sea town on the south coast in Dorset. Jen and Mike made my job even easier by just being a great couple as well as up for a bit of messing around. Really cant wait till christmas when I will get to shoot their big day… fingers crossed for snow!