Video showing a new framed print I just sold. Gives you an idea of what some of my prints will look like all framed up, this is one that someone specifically asked for. Have a look and see what ye think. 

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Mark Lanegan New Album & Interview

Mark Lanegan Just released his new album 'Blues Funeral' this week and I have been looking forward to this for a very long time. It's goood being a fan of Lanegan as over the past few years he has been releasing tons of music, doing guest spots on people's records and full albums with Isobell Campbell, Soulsavers and The Gutter Twins but no solo record since 2004's Bubblegum. So he finally got round to working on some solo stuff and will follow with a tour which I'm glad I have tickets for.

I just saw this interview on his approach to recording the album and how it was a whole new experience than he was used to so check out the interview and get the info from the man himself. This is the most I’ve ever seen him speak and he seems pretty happy to be doing an interview. Interesting approach to writing the album, writing and recording them all in sequence and only doing 12 instead of randomly writing tons and picking the best. I must say I wasn’t too sure about the album initially but now after hearing it a good few times it’s pretty awesome, very subtle songs and definitely takes a little while to tune into where its coming from and I highly recommend picking it up. Oh and I get my computer back on Sunday so anyone interested in purchasing any of my lanegan or any other illustrations will be able to do so pretty soon.

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Testing My New White Seamless Backdrop

Testing out my new white seamless paper. I love this thing. Never thought I would like to work on seamless (or white seamless at least) but It is so liberating and challenging to omit all backgrounds and props. It really makes you work hard to get a great image. I am using this with my Lumopro 160 speedlight and the lastolite ezybox softbox. I am looking into getting either a bowens or elinchrom strobe kit soon for the extra power and ability to use them with much larger light modifiers like an octabox in order to create a much larger and softer light.

I had a problem with the paper though. When it arrived I set it up only to realise that there was a continuous weird indent pattern all the way down the middle of the roll which pretty much renders it useless for anything other than blasting light and rendering it pure white (which washes out the indent). This is annoying as I wanted to shoot a lot as a grey background by not letting so much light fall on to the paper but when doing this the indent ruins the picture and is so large and weirdly shaped that it would take too much photoshop work to erase. I got in touch with the company I bought it from and they quickly said they would send me a replacement (which should arrive today) so soon I can start using the paper the way I initially intended. I’ll post the results as they come.

Anyway this is a quick image of Cat, you can’t really see much of the paper here (it could easily just have been a white wall) but I will post some wider shots later.

I used the Lumopro 160 shot through a Lastolite Ezybox softbox from above my head, pretty much straight down at her and quite close. I really liked the result. I thought her expression was pretty funny.

For anyone who’s interested I will post a review of the Lumopro 160 and the Lastolite Ezybox kit within the week. I am going to write a lot more reviews of equipment I use in the future, focussing on how the items work in practical use, as when I was looking to buy some items there wasn’t much great info out there online (except strobist.com of course). If your getting into lighting and have not checked out this site then you need to get over there now, NOW!. www.strobist.blogspot.com

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Bizarro Portrait Series

The purpose of this series is to have fun with the subject and be as weirdly creative as we both can with the intention of creating a collection of bizarre portraits. Simple.

My only rule is that every image must be captured in camera with only colour adjustment in photoshop allowed, no editing to change face shapes or anything.

This is the images so far. I want to get lots of different people to take part in this over the next few months.

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NEW WEBSITE

Hey there! I have a new website now up and running. Just finished building it and picking the images. Hopefully its running good. I need sleep now.

Have a look and let me know what you think. Be great to hear some feedback.

I was going for a much cleaner and simpler navigation and design compared to my last site.

The photography portfolio section will be getting regular updates as I have a lot of new shoots planned for the near future so watch that space.

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