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Timothy Armes' blogPhotography as I experience it…
Archive for December, 2008
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
I’ve just finished shooting some promotional images for local artisan Cécile Lienhard, so I thought I’d share some of the experience.
Cécile didn’t give me a remit, so I was free to do anything that I felt was appropriate. My main consideration was that her web site is a dark grey, so it was important that the images would marry well with this colour scheme.
I decided that I really wanted to capture her distinctive style rather than document the individual pieces themselves, that way she could continue to use the images to sell herself even once the particular pieces that she had passed on to me had been sold.
I started working with the clock, and after playing a little I thought that it would be best explored as a triptych. This decision then lead me to on to create each of the final images as a composition of photos. This sort of things often happens – I start out without any ideas in particular, and then once I actually take some photos the ideas come together.
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Tags: cécile lienhard, ceramics, triptych
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Yes, Canon France have impressed me with their handling of the problem that I had with my first 5D MkII – I received a brand new camera today, and this time it actually takes photos. I have to praise Canon’s customer service – they’ve been courteous and reactive.
I’ve had a quick play by taking some shots in our lounge and developing the Raw files in Lightroom 2.2 and everything seems fine. The detail at 3200 ISO is very impressive.
Since we have our Christmas tree up I felt obliged to test for the black spot syndrome, but in my briefs tests using the default settings (except that I use Raw) there’s not a black spot in sight, or even a dead pixel for that matter. I’m a happy shopper.
I shaln’t be doing any more pixel peeping, I just want to go and take some proper photos….
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Sunday, December 14th, 2008
Recently a friend of mine asked me how I took my family snapshots ‘to the next level’. He has a DSLR and a good eye for composition but he couldn’t get the look he was after. So we went through the images that he liked and there were two things in common – I thought I’d share them here (with help from a small person).
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Tags: aperture, bounce, depth of field, flash
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
 One of the great things about living in France is the great food. France is renowned for its cuisine, but it’s not until you spend some time here that you really appreciate just how engrained it is into the very fabric of French culture.
Each region of France has its own specialities to offer, a tradition that brings water to this photographer’s mouth just thinking about it…
A village a few kilometers from here, Chabeuil, is known for its Caillette, a sort of ball of pork based paté (I daren’t ask more) that’s served warm with bread and salad. Believe me, it’s delicious…
Anyway, I digress. The point of this post is that Chabeuil holds an annual Caillette Fair where the different farms get to show off their Caillette making prowess, and each year the local camera club is asked to put on a small exhibition of pig photos (as you do). For a bit of fun I thought I’d offer my services.
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Tags: caillette, flash, pigs
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
“I don’t like flash, I only take photos under natural light.”
I keep hearing this phrase at the moment, and it drives me nuts. There are many times when natural light is just great, but refusing to use flash at all is senseless on many counts.
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Tags: flash, natural light
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Monday, December 8th, 2008
David Hobby managed to stir up all sorts of emotional responses last week with his post on working for free.
The comments that he received show that there are clearly groups of people who sit firmly on each side of the fence. The post generated a plethora of differing reactions from both readers and other photographer-bloggers such as Vincent Laforet and, of course, John Harrington.
Even fellow plugin-writer Jeffrey Friedl decided to rant about the rants.
I have nothing new or revolutionary to say on the subject; I feel that all the arguments, both for and against, have now been laid bear.
However I would like to react to the many people that responded with the suggestion that working for free is a good way to get a “foot in the door”. I personally don’t think it is such a good idea, so I thought I’d mention I technique that I’ve used to get my own foot in the door that isn’t so much about working for free as much as potentially working for nothing.
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Tags: working for free, working for nothing
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Sunday, December 7th, 2008
As an active lifestyle photographer, my aim is to take sports images that are about the emotion of being immersed in nature’s grandeur rather than in competition or pure performance. I aim for the viewer – any viewer – to feel the pull of the lifestyle that’s being portrayed so that they wish to be doing the same thing themselves. To this end the photography needs to be emotive as well.
For this first image I attached my camera and flash to the frame of the bicycle and then drove along side at slow speed. The camera was fired remotely using a Pocket Wizard. I waited for the evening light so we had to work fast to get a shot I was happy with.
This next shot is simple yet it really spoke to me. There’s a sense of isolation that’s appealing, and I romanticize the experience further by using a soft colour palette.
Tags: active lifestyle photographer, active lifestyle photography, commercial photographer france, commercial photography france, cycling, lifestyle, lifestyle photographer, lifestyle photographer france, lifestyle photography, lifestyle photography france, Photographe de lifestyle, Photographe de lifestyle en France, Photographe de sport et d’aventures d’aventures sportives, Photographe de style de vie en France, Photographe d’aventures sportives, Photographe d’un style de vie actif, Photographe publicitaire en France, Photographie, Photographie consacrée au lifestyle, Photographie de sport et d’aventures, Photographie de style de vie, Photographie de style de vie actif, Photographie professionnelle en France, sport, surf
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Sunday, December 7th, 2008
Happy as a sand boy I was on Friday – I was one of the first people in France to receive a new 5D MkII! However, I wasn’t to remain on the beach for long…
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Tags: Canon 5D MkII, Err 30, Error 30
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Sunday, December 7th, 2008
Yes, I finally have a blog – I can hardly claim to be original in this respect.
So, what’ll I be talking about? Anything photographically related that spurs my interest. I’ll talk about recents images I’ve taken, I’ll show some of my shoots, I’ll talk about the gear, and I’ll no doubt mention my Lightroom plugins from time to time too.
I’ll try to avoid being boring.
Tim
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