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Couldn't think what to put on the red strip.

Couldn't think what to put on the red strip.

Excellent. You might be putting words into Chris' mouth, though. ;)

Excellent. You might be putting words into Chris' mouth, though. ;)

Oh hell no, Chris is a big advocate for folk going brakeless :P

Looks like the Neasden Depot, though I doubt this is where the pic was taken

You are correct.

Should have commented on this one first time round, as I love the bokeh, the lighting and the pose... Lovely model, but not sure about the 'gap' in the bosom area though...

me (oldest) and my two brothers c.1995

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Not great, was quickly taken when I was walking along the victoria bar walls in York

just two from me

York Minister
Not too sure about the sky

most recent?

Not edited yet, straight out of the camera with no raw file adjustments, just a slight crop and straighten thats it, getting onto the retouching today tomorow, hopefully it gives an idea.

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Should have commented on this one first time round, as I love the bokeh, the lighting and the pose... Lovely model, but not sure about the 'gap' in the bosom area though...

Just spotted the comment...bit slow. Yeah not sure about the gap either ;) it's the pose i guess that makes it "work" like that, after all it was a random catch ;)

One of mine from the Track Day. Pretty happy with it.

Not edited yet, straight out of the camera with no raw file adjustments, just a slight crop and straighten thats it, getting onto the retouching today tomorow, hopefully it gives an idea.

nice one, too bad about the buildings in the background.
can't wait to see a retouch.

you do fashion then?

Yeah, haven't done loads, but really enjoyed that shoot and think i'm going to get into it more.
Its most likely that i'll burn the sky/buildings a little bit, they will still be visible in the final edit but just less prominent, going to drop the background exposure down about a quarter of a stop as well to set the model off a bit more, and then go to work on the dress and all the other bits and bobs :)
Should be done by tomorrow I reckon.

Would love to see a final edit when you're done James. :)

Yeah, haven't done loads, but really enjoyed that shoot and think i'm going to get into it more.
Its most likely that i'll burn the sky/buildings a little bit, they will still be visible in the final edit but just less prominent, going to drop the background exposure down about a quarter of a stop as well to set the model off a bit more, and then go to work on the dress and all the other bits and bobs :)
Should be done by tomorrow I reckon.

what's you're equipment?

does it really matter? netherless I like the whole setting up of the fashion/portrait shoot, what I dislike is the time spend on photoshop trying to 'correct' the photos.

I find it a tad annoying that nowadays clients are a lots more impatient and does not give me enough time to set up the studio perfectly, sort out the stray hair and make up, prop, lighting etc. (especially if you only have half a day to do that rather than a full 9am-6pm studio hire) before taking the photos, because of that I realise I end up spending more time on Photoshop just to correct issue that should've been fixed in the studio.

Ah well, gotta go with the flow eh?

does it really matter? netherless I like the whole setting up of the fashion/portrait shoot, what I dislike is the time spend on photoshop trying to 'correct' the photos.

I find it a tad annoying that nowadays clients are a lots more impatient and does not give me enough time to set up the studio perfectly, sort out the stray hair and make up, prop, lighting etc. (especially if you only have half a day to do that rather than a full 9am-6pm studio hire) before taking the photos, because of that I realise I end up spending more time on Photoshop just to correct issue that should've been fixed in the studio.

Ah well, gotta go with the flow eh?

The shot above was set up in 10 minutes, and we got that shot after 10 minutes of poses/composition changes.
I think with any shot planning is key, we had our lighting schemes, locations and style of the shoot planned out 10 days in advance, and obviously having all the right indgredients like a good make-up artist and stylist help, and a model who is easy to work with, those things are the hardest things to correct if they're not right!
But like you Ed I still have to do the usual stray hair corrections, a bit of airbrushing to the skin etc (although haven't touched this shot yet in terms of post production), thats just how things are these days.
If you are really losing sleep over an extra 5-6 minute spent removing stray hairs off of a studio background you need to lighten up a little Ed, those things don't change whether you're Ed Scoble or Annie Leibovitz...although Annie no doubt has people that do all that for her.....bloody a-list snappers!

^ I like :)

Nuno, how do you get the fingerprints on that software, I can't find it for the life of me, haha.

Some amazing photos of glaciers here:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/gallery_glaciers/

Mon the Biff