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Ford Mustang Photo Shoot (Behind the Scenes)

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Ford Mustang Photo Shoot (Behind the Scenes)

Seeing as I’ve revamped my website and also tidied up previous blog posts, I just wanted to make sure I included this one from early in 2020 when I spent a day with one of my closest friends, Brian Dukes, and photographed his incredible Ford Mustang.

We photographed it on a former airfield which saw action during World War 2, and is now owned by another great friend of mine Tom as it forms part of his farmland.

You’ll see in the video below, how I lit the image and that was by taking a serious of photographs with a flash positioned at different parts of the car; these images were

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The Invisible Black Background

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The Invisible Black Background

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been putting a lot of time into not just revamping my website, but moving it to a completely new hosting platform (thank you SquareSpace). I’m going to be writing a post about why I’ve done this, but needless to say I am VERY happy I finally made the (much needed) move.

Anyway, as part of the moving process I connected my Google Analytics account to the new site and what was really interesting to see was that ‘Invisible Black Background’ was still ranking high up there as one of the search terms used by folks and that lead them to my site. If you didn’t know, ‘Invisible Black Background’ refers to a photograph technique I named and that was featured in the New York Times, and is basically a way to make it look as though

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Create Sunlight Quick and Easy in Photoshop

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Here’s a short video showing how you can add or enhance Realistic Sunlight in your pictures QUICKLY and EASILY using Photoshop.

The technique makes use of a Gradient Fill and shows you how to use Gradients to create 3 individual circles that make up the sun along with how to resize them and use Blend Modes for ultimate realism.

Hope you like it,
Glyn

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Sony A1: Is it all hype?

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Sony A1: Is it all hype?

Following on from a post last week, here’s a full length (10 minute) video where I go through ‘hands’ on use of the NEW Sony A1 and how I lit and photographed a recent surfer portrait on the beach at Saunton Sands at around 12pm on a VERY bright, sunny day…

KIT:

Sony A1

Sony 85mm f/1.4 G Master

Westcott FJ400 (LINK)

SETTINGS:

f/1.4 , ISO 50, 1/8000sec in High Speed Sync

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Filming for Sony with the Sony A7SII and DJI Ronin RS2

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Love this Behind the Scenes Capture Mark Baber from Sony grabbed of me yesterday when I was filming Jack (Surfer) running on Saunton Sands beach for part of yesterday’s content with the Sony A7SIII.

The Behind the Scenes looks like something from a Benny Hill comedy sketch but OH MY GOD am I happy with the result!

First time getting some proper use out of my DJI Ronin RS2 Gimbal and I’m blown away with how it smooths out the movement.

Happy Days!

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TIMELAPSE: Dandelion opening in Morning Sunrise

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TIMELAPSE: Dandelion opening in Morning Sunrise

Since we all started living with restrictions due to the current Covid-19 Pandemic, I’ve been enjoying getting out and experimenting with other genres of photography as I’m unable to take portraits.

Before this time I guess you could say I was a strict portrait photographer in that, if I wasn’t taking a portrait, then my camera remained in my camera bag. I never felt the urge to try anything else.

Landscapes, Seascapes and Woodland is not only proving to be a heck of a lot of fun and a great way to keep the tools in my hand and keep…

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COVID Restrictions made me a Better Photographer

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It might sound odd to say this but I honestly believe that Covid-19 Restrictions placed upon our daily lives, have actually made me a Better Photographer.

Before March 2019, the only time I would have my camera in my hands was for taking a portrait. As a Portrait Photographer I just wasn’t interested in other genres. 

However, this all changed and I explain all in this video.

Hope you like it,
Glyn

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