Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Urbex Safari - Gorilla



I feel like I'm always saying it but I'm in a rut. I'm short of drive with my photography at the moment, I never seem to have the time... I'll not dwell on that any more in this post, I may write my thoughts down about this in a future blog. Lucky you!

So this is the first photo-manipulation I've worked on in a while. It wasn't particually planned and I didn't realy give it the time it deserved although I'm pretty pleased with it... just feel there could of been more.

The "Urbex Safari" theme may become a little project. I shot a few animals during a trip to Longleat safari park a couple of weeks ago, not as many as I had hoped because my car over heated... in the tiger enclosure. Scary stuff! So I had to put my foot down and get out quick, I must be the quickest person round in the history of the park. Tigers, lions, cheetahs and wolfs all missed because steam was pouring out my bonnet and I was soiling my pants!

I'm not going to go into details about the techniques I used. I'll leave tutorials to more talented people who's results are better and actually know what they are talking about. Instead I've made a GIF! Will my talents ever cease? Yes.


See the shot on flickr
See the shot on 500px

Sunday, 22 April 2012

Untitled Self Portrait - Before & After

Where I live is currently in the middle of a drought so naturally it's rained all week. Unable to get any of the shots I was hoping too I went for a quick play in my "urbex shed". 



Gear:
Canon Eos 7D
Sigma 17-70mm f2.8
Yongnuo YN460ii (x2)
Gridded octobox

Settings:
Focal Length: 28mm
Shutter: 1/125
Aperture: f/8.0
ISO: 400

It's not the most spacious area but it does has some cool walls for back drops.

The lighting set up for this shot was pretty simple. I had a YN460ii in a gridded reflective octobox umbrella…thing, above the camera. I was just over 1 meter away from the camera with another YN460ii on a stand, bare, right behind my head facing the wall that was about another meter away.






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