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  1. Lighting Playtime – On Board Flash Defuser

    September 16, 2008 by cat

    As the caption from the images says:-
    “Captured with Canon 10D, on camera flash with a home-made “stofen”-like defuser about a foot away from the subject. The defuser is made out of a film reel canister with a cut about a cm wide to accommodate the flash unit.”

    For a while I’ve been having to use sheets of paper with any photograph that needed flash (and not using the Vivitar 285HV) with under 5ft between camera and subject (many of my portraits, macro-ish shots, etc) to defuse the on board flash. Well, no more! I now have a defuser and it came free with film!

    On top of all that – I’ve not had to edit the file, just convert it to jpg.

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  2. Lighting Playtime: Stofen, Vivitar 285HV, Canon 10D and new hair colour

    August 30, 2008 by cat

    The last few days I’ve been playing around with the flashgun and how to use the light on camera. Trying to get my head around how to use this strobe in portraits on the go and with little prep.

    The strobe is in the hot-shoe so, about 4inches above lens, pointed straight forwards at the subject(ie, me) on 1/16th power. 75mm, 1/125th sec, f.4. Used a hand trigger – wired clone – and tripod slightly higher than the default height.

    This photo is manually focused and for once looks to be spot on..

    So what do you think of the colour?? It was meant to be a redy-brown, but it is over my old purple hair. 🙂

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  3. My Miniture Dr Jones

    May 29, 2008 by cat


    Adam Joshua

    This is my nephew, Adam Joshua. He’s 8 and this might just have been the only time during the weekend I was in Edinburgh that he sat still!

    Main light (room feature) camera right and flash gun 2 foot above camera with stofen at 45° either 1/16th or 1/4th power.

    Gallery

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  4. 50s Pin-up/Candy Girl

    May 29, 2008 by cat

    This is my most recent shoot from the Studio at university. It’s main purpose was as a piece to go in my portfolio and to go in the portfolio of a make-up and hairstylist Sarah Spears.


    Suzy

    The gallery


    Nat

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  5. Balda test

    April 14, 2008 by cat


    Palace Hotel

    Balda test roll from March 3rd 2008.

    This is a beautiful little pop-lens tin camera. I bought it for £5 from a charity through eBay. It takes 120 film and has a set shutter and two aperture settings. It is basically a metal version of the Holga, made in the 1950s!

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  6. Play time in the studio

    April 14, 2008 by cat

    So last Thursday I developed all of my backlog of film. Most of it was 120 (medium format) black and white, although there was one roll of Ilford HP5+ (developing for someone else).

    I found the roll that I used in the studio on March 3rd (2008). While I was in the studio I had the chance to use a Fuji 6×9 – the only one that my uni has.


    This is Cassie – one of my class mates.


    This is Joe – another of my class mates

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  7. Project 365 – Day 17

    April 4, 2008 by cat

    4th April 2008

    I’m bored while waiting for prints. I drew on myself – I wish Kian would let me do this to him..

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  8. Day 14 of Project 365

    April 2, 2008 by cat

    April 1st 2008

    These are some of Kian’s “Executive Toys”. Lit from about lens with on camera flash – defused with a simple piece of stationary paper (Conqueror Stain 90gsm) – first sheet to hand.

    Today’s Kian’s mum’s birthday – Happy Birthday!

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  9. Playing with lighting

    March 30, 2008 by cat

    Kian made this:

    It was made of four pieces of sketchbook paper (watercolour paper), some chunks of mount board, and two sheets of tissue paper – two Pritt sticks and a roll of masking tape went into it too. Rather good design and it works very effectively.

    Also, today’s 365 Project photo came from this photo shoot.

    Tomorrow I may let you see my photograms.

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  10. I should really introduce myself

    January 19, 2008 by cat

    So yes, this is the first photograph of myself on this site.

    I’ve been promising some people that I would show what colour my hair has changed to for months. So I finally got around to it.

    For this I had the main room lights on (3 gang in the centre of the room and 2 in the alcoves) and a lighting stand with a ‘brolly and Vivitar 285HV behind the camera to the right pointed to the right side of face (when looking from behind the camera) set to 1/4 power (manual) directed straight into the ‘brolly.

    I took the ones of myself with the self-timer function. While I had it set up I thought I should get the shots Kian wants for his own site done.

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