Quick street photo upload.

Probably my favourite street shot I have taken in years. Needs to be viewed on computer, not gonna get the full thing looking on a phone. It's not often a photo works out like this with the sun setting between the buildings, the passer by with the umbrella on the street and the reflection of the wet ground in the alley. I've been doing photography long enough to know that these don't come a long that often.

Glasgow.

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Canon EF 50mm f1.4 Video Review

People have been asking on my website www.drewportfolio.com for some more review videos and also asking what my other camera gear consists of. So here it is, This review covers my most used focal length, 50mm. Specifically the Canon EF 50mm f1.4. So this is my take on this lens, it's performance and reliability. Also look out for the cameo from my broken 50mm f1.8 Canon lens.

Hope this helps and if you have any questions send me an email at andrew@drewportfolio.com.

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Sigma 85mm f1.4 EX Lens Video Review

Hi Guys I have finally uploaded the video review of this lens. Some people have been emailing me with some extra questions which I wanted to clear up from the written review I did last week. So if you want to see its size, hear me answer a few questions I missed in the written review and give my findings with the lens over the past 9 months. I think it compliments the written review well.

Sorry the quality isn't great but my internet connection is very slow right now and couldn't upload the full res version without it taking all day.

Hope this helps clear up a few things and in conjunction with the written review hopefully it helps people make a more informed decision on whether to buy/try this lens.

You can see the original written review here which has loads of image samples from a pro wedding shoot and some portrait sessions that will give you a really good idea of how this lens performs in a wide range of different lighting conditions.

If you have any question or opinions from the video (or written review) then feel free to leave a comment or send me an email. Any feedback is appreciated.

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Catriona In The Studio

A recent shot of Catriona in the studio. Her hair and look is awesome in this one.

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Catriona

This is a shot of my girlfriend Catriona who I photograph a lot. It took me a while to get around to posting this shot, for personal work I am usually about 5 months behind on editing, unless I feel its really urgent to get a photo done. I like it this way though as it gives you something to do when you have some spare time and its always refreshing viewing images from a shoot a few months back, seeing them with fresh eye's and letting the actual capture process not be too much a factor when processing/editing.

Anyway I really like this image of Cat and actually have a few decent shots from this shoot that I might post in the future.

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World War Z Set At Night

I took a wander through the World War Z film set on Friday night on my way to the pub, It looks really cool at night time with all the lights. Here are a couple of shots I took on our way through.

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Both shots taken with the Carl Zeiss  Distagon T* 35mm f2

I Like To Meet Nice People

I spoke to this guy for about an hour and a half today in George Square. He was really nice and we had a good conversation, I can't remember his name (i'm horrible at remembering names, if your reading this then let me know your name again).

He is from South Korea and has travelled a lot, we talked about movies, we were watching the filming of World War Z starring Brad Pitt at the time so it was a good topic, we talked about travelling and other random stuff. I took this photo not long before I left to go meet Cat and get some food. It was nice to meet you.

Oh and this is taken with the great Sigma 85mm f1.4, really love this lens.


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World War Z Movie Set

Just took a wander round the World War Z film set which right now is filming with Brad Pitt in Glasgow. Loads of yellow taxis, Philadelphia police cars, road signs and props like newspaper stands and stuff. I  took a few photos. Cool to see how they transformed the area and it's good to have a bit of buzz about the area. Hope things like this happen more often.

15th Street

15th Street through the crowds.

Arch Street and workers setting up more lights on the other side of the road.

Where the filming at this point was going on.

Hot Dog stand props.

J F Kennedy Bl

J F Kennedy Bl

I love the look of these yellow lights and signs.

Market Street

Philadelphia Police car

News stand props.

Working away at the lights.

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My Modified Lens Experiment.

My 50mm lens broke. It was my back up 50 and didn't cost too much so I had an idea to take it apart and see how I could modify it to get some interesting images. I had it in half and put it back together with some tape and other random things and now it takes some very interesting images. I went out today and took some images on the streets, it has a mind of its own but is controllable (kind of). 

I can't wait to shoot more with it, experiment and try some portraits. It is so much fun, much more fun than it was as a cheap 50. I have a Canon 50mm f1.4 which I use as my main 50 now anyways. Now I have a very artistic lens that can get very bizarre yet effective results to experiment with, Awesome!

Check out the images below, very dream like quality. The first one is my favourite out of the bunch.

Catriona Portrait (Testing Zuiko 100mm f2.8 on 5D mk 2)

Catriona shot in my small home studio using a Canon 5d mark 2 and a 100mm f2.8 Olympus Zuiko lens.

I have this olympus lens that I use on my old film camera the Olympus OM2n which gives some great quality and I have shot a lot of portraits with it on film in the past. I recently started to look into some portrait lenses for my digital set up (5D mark 2). I looked into the Canon ef 100mm f2.8 macro and the Canon ef 100mm f2. They are relatively inexpensive when it comes to good quality portrait primes and I would use either of them no problem and know that they would give great quality. Then I remembered I had this 100mm Zuiko lens so I bought a cheap adapter to get this on the 5D, I bought it from ebay for about £10. This is the first real test shots from it in a portraiture setting and from this image it looks like it works really well. This image is shot at 2.8 so the depth of field is pretty shallow and focused on her right eye (our left) and I really like how it rendered the image and I would be happy to use this in a professional setting. The only problem is though that it isn't that easy to hit focus spot on but I am going to buy an adapter with an autofocus conformation so that will resolve that problem. 

After this surprising experience I think I will look into trying out a zuiko 24mm f2.8 to see what the results from that are like as I would love an extremely compact wide angle that could fit in my pocket while out on a shoot rather than the very large 16-35 f2.8L which can get annoying having to carry around all day and I prefer primes anyway.  I may possibly sell my 16-35 f2.8 II L as I do really prefer primes for size and i've never really been a zoom guy but the 16-35mm image quality is great so I am caught in two minds. 

I'll keep updating the 100mm f2.8's images as I get through them, I want to really give it a good test before using it on a pro job. And possibly a zuiko 24mm f2.8 on a 5d mk 2 review soon. 

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Self Portrait Flash Test

A very rare self portrait. I just got my new flash and soft box delivered so set it up and gave it a quick test. I was the only person in the flat so had to use myself as the subject. I am really getting into lighting at the moment and really looking forward to getting many people in my home studio for some portraits.

I will post up all the results as they are created. I am going to document my experiments with flash to see what I can come up with and so that people can maybe learn a few things from my mistakes.

This set up is a Lumopro 160 speedlight shot through the Ezybox softbox from camera left. Simple.

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