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04.23.12Waste SaversWaste Savers For more check out www.flickr.com/photos/theavangelist
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04.22.12Strobist PortraitStrobist Portrait Playing around with the flash guns on East Sunday. I've done nothing for over a year. Slowly gearing back up again and getting on the horse. For more check out www.flickr.com/photos/theavangelist
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04.28.11Portraits: James MedhurstTunbridge Wells based solo artist James Medhurst, promoshoot April 2011 Continue Reading...
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03.15.10The death of ChristmasChristmas Eve 2009. To my great amusement, I find a friend is frantically speeding his way through Brighton picking up the presents he didn't realise he would need. We find ourselves in desperate need of alcoholic relief. Returning to Avangelist HQ I begin to tell him of the idea I have had for an image. About a week before Christmas, dump sites for Christmas trees began appearing around Brighton. I had recalled how sad they looked the previous year as a pyre of pine accumulated on The Level. Imagine, I said, if people threw away their trees with all the decorations still ...
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09.27.09My Lip Gloss is Poppin’ PhreshI had a last minute call about a shoot at the end of last week for Brighton corset maker Chrissie Nicholson Wild, who had some new bespoke outfits she wanted snapping before they were snapped up. With very short notice, we managed to get together a space and ran through four ensembles with the rather fantastic model Kara. This is the first image I have looked at from the collection and will be writing something with some meat behind it at some point this week as I start to work through reducing a couple of hundred images down to a usable ...
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08.07.09Adventures in Flash – Shooting bands with no lightingIt is the biggest let down for any photographer. You step inside the venue, trot up to the stage only to find that there is no stage lighting, or worse still, there is no lighting and the band are playing on the floor in front of the stage because there are too many amps and drum kits on the stage for them to fit! We've all been there and accepted another night of stark looking burnt out flash photos with little to no atmosphere. And for most of the time there isn't a great deal you can do about it. Unless ...
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05.14.09Stroking subjects with strobesHere is another shot from the HTBM session last weekend. If you look through the previous posts you will see how the main lighting concept was put together. For this outing, I changed it up a bit by putting what I am trying to tailor into my 'look' for live shots which is stroking subjects with back lights. In conrast here is an example of the same setup except we had the light raised higher to create a starburst. Continue Reading...
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05.12.09Creating hi-contrast lighting with strobesSecond shot from the recent HTBM shoot. This image is part of a series of 4 - each with different band member in the forefront of the shot. I figured I would start with vocalist Bin and work on from there. In this post I will be explaining in detail how this series was lit, the thought process behind them and turning it into reality. Continue Reading...
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04.27.09Balancing daylight with StrobesThis another from the Nedry promoshoot taken at Abney Park Cemetery, London. This was quite a tricky shot to set up. The alcove is very tight, which gave this wonderful frame, but the sun was pumping head on. Brilliant you might think! Wrong, because it means that dark crevices are seriously dark. The main issue was that Chris (in the back of the shot) was stuck in the shadows. Taking meter readings off the front was only going to expose the brickwork and Ayu and Matt at the front. In addition to this, although I wanted to get some strong shadows in ...
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03.17.09Adventures in Photography – When you need a VALThis week I have been beavering away at an interesting assignment for the Creative Photography course at Garage Studios. Last weeks lesson we looked at some photographers who I am genuinly interested in. For me, street photography is shite. Possibly a contrasting statement being that my sole driving factor in photography is its journalistic properties, and this tends to be the primary driver behind the so called medium of street photography. Instead we have begun looking at artists who use the camera as a means to capture their creative works. Blinding! Welcome to the world of Jeff Wall. Continue Reading...
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