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The Images of Winter

Technojeff — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 21:32:20 +0000

Winter is a wondeful time of year as it brings deep frosts and snow covered landscapes. The trees are bare of their foliage and yet carry the jewels of berries waiting to nourish the birds. For the photographer this winter wonderland is full of opportunity to see the world fringed with crystal frosts adding sparkel to the last colours of autumn. The collection here was taken during early dawn at Scalford Hall in Leicestershire, and outside our home in Milton Keynes.

So here are a few of the images
Click here to see the results.

Studio Session – Family Portraits

Technojeff — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:43:19 +0000

These photographs come from a studio portrait session held in a home environment with our family – Sara, Andy and grandson Hayden. There were a few challenges with lighting, but we managed this shoot in our living room, and Jan was my lighting assistant for the session. Real home grown stuff eh!

Look out for Hayden’s famous “speedo modelling” shot. Highly amusing, but he is banned from repeating it…

Click here to see some of the photographs taken on the day.

Photography Update

Technojeff — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:51:48 +0000

The ACE photography course has made me look closely at the areas in and around Milton Keynes recently. I have had to consider all sorts of “technical” concepts in getting the best out of my camera. However, I am really enjoying the projects I have to undertake. It can be a bit of pressure, especially the week where we were tasked with producing 9 images.

One of the projects I had to do was to use a different lens to the normal one I use. At first, I found this quite challenging, and was ready to ebay the lens. I soon found I was wishing for my standard zoom lens at all the versatility of the 12-6omm zoom. Yet after a day or two of use, I was really impressed with the performance of the lens, and I know it will get a lot more outings than I had previously considered.

The images in this blog were from the 9-18mm wide angle lens and were taken at Sharpenhoe Clappers in Bedfordshire and Old Hatfield.

I also tried my hand at black and white photography, and some of the results are beginning to appear in the gallery.

More images can be seen on the ACE Photography Course pages in the Gallery section.