Ideas, Ideas!!

YouTube is definitely my new best mate. Watching a lot of these videos on photography is really really making my creative juices flowing! Since getting my strobe light (Canon 430EXii) I've been having all sorts of ideas for shoots. Just a couple I really want to do at the moment is I want to head to a skatepark (the one here is most difinetely too small and most importantly too dead, so any help will be greatly appreciated ; ) ) and get some photos of people getting big air, grinds etc. etc. Might head to somewhere on my next days off!! Should make a giggle trying to get some people I don't know to bust some moves for me.....

Thanks to Mr. eBay I have purchased an umbrella adapter for my lightstands so want to head off into a field with tall grass and have a shoot in there! Should be good : )

In other news my week off work has sadly come to an end. As from 6pm tomorrow night I officially have no life again :( back to long hours and rediculously shitty pay! Me and Becs (the better half) have started shopping for bits and bobs for when we finally move in together. Spent the day at Ikea on Saturday. I could spend thousands there. No shit!! Every time we went down a new aisle I wanted something else!! Computer desks, sofas, tables, wardrobes, woks (don't ask. It was only £2.44 ain't going to complain about that!) I'm pretty sure she wanted to strangle me by the time we were ready to leave. So no surprises now I'm going to say were going again in a couple of weeks!!

So apart from that it's been a pretty uneventful couple of weeks. One of my good mates, Dylan, has just joined this blogger lark so I think he deserves a shout out!! Check him out at http://welshboon.blogspot.com will give you a bit of a giggle!!!

Just before I leave, within the next couple of weeks I'll be posting a couple of tutorials on 1. How to use the speedlites with a shoot through umbrella and will show the different effects shooting with and without the umbrella has. And 2. Will show you how to make a DIY light box for less than £5

Something for you to look forward to!

Adios people!


Andrew.

Location:Blaenau Ffestiniog,United Kingdom

Good Times Ahead? I Think So!!

I've been thinking a lot lately as to what direction I want to take my photography. And after a lot of YouTubing and a lot of flickr-er-ing (Does that make sense? Probably sounds better in my head) I've decided on giving the whole strobist style a whizz. I know it's mainstream and a lot of people do it now, but I really really do like the effect. And the whole versatility of basically carrying a couple of speedlites and a couple of umbrellas (if you want) and you can have a studio anywhere really does appeal to me. My Canon 430EX ii speedlite arrived this morning and I will be getting some triggers tomorrow (thanks to an absolute legend of a photograher from Colwyn Bay) and I will be away. You will not believe how excited I am!!! If you as well are thinking of trying out the strobist style I highly recommend you go to YouTube, search 'Strobist' and just watch the videos. There are sone fantastic and inspirational videos n there!!

So not much else has happened lately except for yesterday. A good friend of mine, photographer Ian O'Neill LRPS (he'd kill me if I forgot to put in those 4 letters), and we had the whole day shooting and, fair play to him, he taught me so much about studi photography!! Some of the photos from the day to be fair are absolutely fantastic, I have an image that will forever be in my portfolio, and a model who is very VERY happy with the photos for her portfolio.

This is the image I mentioned above:





Yeah. Definitely safe to say I'm impressed with this image! Who needs to spend £2000 on a camera!!!!!

Andrew.

Location:Blaenau Ffestiniog,United Kingdom