Sky Sculpture

Another cloud post.

The sky this day was truly incredible, I'm not sure I managed to capture quite how surreal it felt, never before have I seen a sky quite like this, appearing as though an abstract artist had wistfully sculpted a fluffy, creamy medium across a blue canvas into troughs and rhythms using a palette knife, unaware of the swirling wispy detail created in passing.

Perhaps it's only me who gets this excited about manifestations of the water cycle being whipped up into wave like forms by the jet streams up at 40,000 feet.

As usual you also can view the set on Flickr

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Cirrocumulus & Cumulus (1)

Spiralling bullet trails (2)

Freeform sky sculpture (3)

Atmospheric surf from below, with airproof camera. (4)

Cirrocumulus, cirrostratus (5)

Dartmoor

Short break in chronology. This is from April.

I am playing catch up with the photos of the last few months.

This set was taken on wet and windy walks over the more civilised edges of Dartmoor when visiting Mungo down in Devon.

Nothing hugely noteworthy I feel, just a few shots I liked. My version of holiday snaps ;) 

I would really like to go back and traipse across the moors in the wild wind more extensively. 

Firstly it makes me fall in love with my waterproof even more.

Secondly it is a perfect feeling of endless horizons and being very small. Like the ocean but made of tough grass and rock.

Thirdly with the 7D being weather sealed I would feel a lot more comfortable about damp camera, despite my nylon cover performing surprisingly well in horizontal rain.

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untitled horizon (1)

Bleak (2)

Lean into the wind (3)

...For the night is dark and full of terrors (4)

Herdsman (5)

Blue Rain (6)

Patrol (7)

Patrol (8)

untitled horizon (9)

Jackson Kingsley Productions

For a while now Jackson and I have been discussing making some photographic material to use in his business and profile as a camera man and film maker. 

This is the first shoot we have done, and although there will be more to come I am pleased with how these turned out.

It was my first outdoor shoot in a while, so it was good to try out my new gear. Off camera flash was very handy for to produce useful fill when the sun wasn't behaving. However the setting was great and Jackson and I had fun playing with his new camera as well, making a short film in the woods, which was great except for such a blantant continuity fail in the last shot that we binned it.

As usual you also can view the set on Flickr

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Studio Shoot (Estelle)

Practice studio shoot No.3

The lovely model is Estelle Martin-Iyet, French erasmus student in 5th year at Bath

 Architecture

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One of the best features on my new 7D is the ability to use the built in pop-up flash as a sync for off-camera speedlites. This I utilised throughout this shoot and having the full and variable power of a flash (modifier: rogue flashbender) was much more effective and controllable than solely using lamps and umbrellas for creative light and flash only as front-on fill.

Prep for this shoot involved scanning Bobbie's 'Bazaar' fashion magazines (which actually have some excellent photo shoots in) for poses I liked, and adapting them with Estelle as I shot.

All in colour this time. Estelle's preference, but it was my aim to get a bright full colour shoot also. Having the speedlite off-camera really helped to bring the colour out effectively.

Edited using aperture for the most part, Nix Software Viveza2 for final colour edits.

As usual for me no airbrushing or selective photoshop.

The shoot was a load of fun - Thanks to Estelle who was fantastic! My confidence and a general sense of knowing what I wanted, as well as knowing more instinctively how to set the lighting (still lots to work on here though), helped plenty with the success of the shoot.

Afterwards we all drank (Spanish) wine and had lasagne.

As usual you also can view the set on Flickr

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Cantaloop @The Bell Inn Bath

I'm back to gig photography for the first time in a while for this post.

The gig was at

The Bell Inn in Bath

, always a great Wednesday night out - this time an entourage of 5th years and originals from archi course came too. Good fun had by all.

The excellent band was 'Cantaloop'.

See their website here.

As usual the band was happy for me to take some shots (I use the word 'some' in the loosest possible way), as I was doing the gig to benefit my own portfolio anyway.

I have been having fun with my new 7D and it was good to try out the sensor in some difficult low light conditions and see how it compares with previous cameras.

I think it is much better..

However difficult to judge because I am pretty sure the lighting at the Bell has got worse, or darker at least. I was ramped up at ISO 2000 for the most part firing at f/1.8 on the OM 50mm.(However, nice to note how much my high speed manual focussing accuracy has improved with practice) 

I found 2.8 on my other lenses just wasn't cutting it, and you just don't use flash at a gig.

Griping over: It's about the atmosphere with these shoots anyway. Tell me how you think I did.

As usual you also can view the set on Flickr

As always cutting criticism and comments via email (tomglendinning.photography@gmail.com) or 

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