I recently photographed a wedding of a good friends daughter. I worked in partnership with David Wilsdon. The wedding was held on Worthing Pier on a very windy rainy day. The wedding and reception were held inside the recently restored Art Deco building with large glass area – basically a large semi circle near the end of the pier. This meant that every image was going to be taken against a very bright background.
The annual BHCC studio shoot was held at my studio. We invited models Ria Fend and Esme Shard. We worked in my loft room for natural light images and my main studio for the images shown here. 10 photographers came, men and women and all agreed that it was a great day. (particularly the models who wrote glowing reviews on PurplePort). I will be hosting more of these soon!
After several months in development, I was pleased to launch the new Brighton & Hove Camera Club website in August 2016. I have lead a small team to create a responsive site with a modern look, emphasising the high quality imagery. Improved functionality includes a competition system, member login, integrated diary / calendar system – enabling downloads to smartphone and online secure payment of subscriptions.
New content includes member portfolio section, articles, FAQ’s and there is also a Photographic Archive dating back to 1928 – a new way for historic images to be enjoyed.
The site encourages member participation with blogs and a new events section. It has been fun to get hands on with WordPress & HTML!
This is just the beginning of course, now the site will expand with new images, articles and posts.
Thanks to John Hazard, Phil Robinson, Allison Verrall and Bill Brandt
Should you reconsider using film in 2016? There is an increasing trend to buy vintage film equipment and shoot street photography and portraits with film. Prices are rising for quality film cameras, particularly for medium format but also iconic quality 35mm cameras from the major manufacturers.
“Which colorspace and file formats to use?” is one of the topics I am most asked about while giving lectures, so here is the summary…
The detail can be found here…
https://advancedphototech.wordpress.com/file-format-and-colourspace-colorspace-primer/
After several years in the making, I have published the second part of my mammoth mirror lens test. This time I have tested the Sigma 600mm f8 in detail and pitched it against the Zeiss Mirotar 500mm f8 and the Canon 100-400mm f4.5-5.6 LIS ll.
I have also answered some critical questions about the viability of mirror lenses on todays cameras.
Included is a brief test of the the Vivitar 600mm f8 Solid Cat and the Vivitar 500mm f8.
Yesterday evening when downloading the latest images in my long running Mirror lens test review, I was faced with this as Lightroom corrupted the images after transferring to my MacPro and during the preview build and /or DNG conversion. You can see that the images initially appeared OK but then as the previews built, bizarre lines and colours appeared.
The solution was to delete Lightroom preferences, like this.
Restart Lightroom,
On Mac holding down SHIFT OPTION COMMAND – or SHIFT ALT COMMAND
Then RESET PREFERENCES.
The problem then is that you have to reset all your preferences such as the location of cache, export file format etc. But at least it solved the problem.
I recently found out that I have had two images selected for the RPS International Print Exhibition, from 5000 entries entered, only 100 were chosen.
See the shortlisted entries here
In addition image “The Volleyballers” has been selected for the RPS Biennial Exhibition.
All three pictures were taken in my home town, proving that you don’t need to pay thousands of pounds to go to foreign destinations to get international standard images!
I had a great day photographing the MODS at the annual Brighton MOD Weekender. Previously one of my pictures was chosen by the Brighton Dome as one of the posters for the Club Exhibition.
A couple of shots from this year…
I then had a frustrating day editing pictures, after I upgraded my MacPro to Yosemite. All sorts of problems with tools like the lasso, quick selection and the cursor disappearing etc. I found out that this is a known problem, and Adobe have created a plugin for it.
I was called by the BBC News yesterday to ask if they can use my Boscastle Flood footage again, as it is the 10th anniversary this Saturday! I can’t believe 10 years has passed so quickly – I can remember every aspect of it like it was yesterday – the shock of seeing it, and narrowly missing being swept away in my own car, the soaking wet people in their shorts and T-shirts – (it was unexpected that 3″ or rain would fall in 1 hour), the interview with Sky news and seeing the footage on the 10 o’clock news. (It was the first video I’d ever shot! taken on a Canon Ixus – long before camera phone video capability of course). It was all caused by the bridge in the image below which couldn’t cope with the capacity of water – note it looks like a giant hosepipe, the water had to find an alternative path, so it flooded the car park and the high street, and out went the cars. I left the water droplets on deliberately! Watch out for the videos this weekend, and you can see stills here www.waynegrundy.com/boscastle
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