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September 21, 2010

Awesome Airbus A380 Images

Filed under: Digital Photography,plantphoto,plantphoto.com — admin @ 5:05 pm

A couple of weeks ago I was asked by a client to shoot some images and video for them at an event they where attending.

The event in question was a private air show for workers and families of Airbus the plane manufacturer based in Bristol.

One of the planes attending was the awesome Airbus A380 which is the largest passenger plane on the planet and possibly the quietest too.

I think what shocked me most about the plane was it’s beauty and grace in the air, it just seemed to effortlessly maneuver through the air at a speed that seemed impossibly slow.

Here area couple of images of the A380 performing to the crowd.

Exposure 500th @ f9 with 70-200mm L series Canon Lens.

airbus

February 15, 2010

The Last Day, Porto Cristo Spain

Filed under: landscape,plantphoto,Post Production,prophotoinsights — admin @ 10:42 pm

Just finished a new image titled “The Last Day, Porto Cristo Spain”

Shot in October 2009 on the last day of the holiday season.

Image Details

  • 1Ds Mk2 Camera
  • 2 Images Stitched
  • Various Curves & Adjustment Layers (avoiding clipping)
  • Selective Colour Desaturation
  • New Sky
  • Seagulls Added
  • Boat Added
  • Tower Extensively Retouched To Clean Up

Approx 12-15 Hrs Retouching
Final PSD File 2.3GB !

The Last Day, Porto Cristo Spain

The Last Day, Porto Cristo Spain

December 13, 2008

Bike Trader Magazine,Bike Show Promotion

October was a super busy month for us which included this studio shoot for Bike Trader Magazine (Trader Media Group}.
We were asked to shoot for a bike give away promotion they were running for The Bike Show at N.E.C in Birmingham (U.K).
We produced images for not only the cover of the magazine but also a poster and several advertising boards to be located in the Gents Toilets !.
Our gorgeous models were Juliette Mills and Emma Jones.
More samples available at www.plantphoto.com

December 4, 2008

New Video "The Making Of" Creating Monochrome Masterpieces

After an intense couple of weeks I’m pleased to announce my downloadable video
“The Making Of” Creating Monochrome Masterpieces

View Web Page HERE

November 12, 2008

Scarecrow Video Tutorial

Our training site www.prophotoinsights.net have started to produce some short video tutorials for several photographic magazines (for their DVD cover disks and websites).
Here is a sample of one we did for fun for Halloween…..

November 6, 2008

Photo Pro Magazine Feature


As promised here is a link to the feature Photo Pro Magazine did in their November issue.
The Editor Terry Hope joined us on location at Millbrook proving ground in Bedfordshire and featured what he witnessed in the magazine’s regular spot “The Shoot”
You can download the PDF Here
Photo Pro’s website can be found at www.photopromagazine.com

September 16, 2008

Millbrook-22 Cars-20 Hours

Just finished a rather large shoot at Millbrook Proving Ground in Bedfordshire England.
The site is used by many magazines,manufacturer’s and the 5th Gear television programme to test vehicles and safely film them.In fact even some of the James Bond car stunts were filmed there.
It’s very high security and every film crew-photographer has his or her own security guard to make sure they only shoot what they are supposed to.
We had a UK photo exclusive with the Bentley Zagato which is a mere snip at £750,000 !!
and many more exotic vehicles.
My favorite ? It’s got to be the Mercedes C63 AMG as I got a chance to be scared out of my wits by our ex pro driver who kindly took me for a spin sideways around one of the tracks.What an experience that was…!! and what a talented driver.

This shoot is being featured in the November edition of Photo Pro magazine (On Sale at beginning of October 2008)

Pro Photo Insights


We are pleased to announce our new venture Pro Photo Insights.
I get many people express interest on how I create some of my work,so for a long time I have thought about producing some kind of online video content/training.
Following a chance online meeting and chatting I was finally inspired to take action and Professional Photographer Insights was born.
The idea is to show a start to finish (from behind the scenes) video footage of the photo shoot then screen casts of the retouching process.We encourage those who sign up to contact us and tell us what they wish to learn about e.g shooting panning shots of cars or what lenses have what effect on the landscape etc.The most popular request’s will be made into a training video.We have lots more plans too so it’s an exciting time to see where it will take us.
Sign up at www.prophotoinsights.net and we will send you a free 38 page e-book “Photographing the Edge of Darkness”

June 16, 2008

Heron


Another dawn sortie on the Somerset Levels.
I’m busy shooting for the exhibition Level Light and while out I spotted this huge Heron from a distance.I always try and keep my camera set for the unexpected shot so I was ready to pounce when this bird spotted me and took off.
I’ve added extra grain to this image as I feel digital images can sometimes be quite souless and I just love the textures I used to get with old emulsions like Agfa 1000 RS.
Anyway back to the Euro championships !

May 16, 2008

Level Light Exhibition


Here is a sneak preview of one of my images that will be appearing in an Exhibition called Level Light.Level Light is an exhibition of paintings of the Somerset levels by two established somerset artists Pennie Elfick and Jenny Graham.My work was spotted by Pennie and Jenny at the Ginger Fig Gallery in Taunton where it’s sold and they kindly asked if I’d like to show some of my work.
This is the first image I have produced for the show and it’s called May on the Moor.
It was shot nr Burrow Mump at Burrowbridge Somerset.It was so early in the morning that my only company where 2 young Deer who watched me from a cautious distance.
The Exhibition runs at Ginger Fig Bath Place Taunton for 2 weeks from the 3rd-17th July

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