Another truly amazing book I've been reading through out this project

Great tips on lighting and set up techniques

This is how I came across the GQ book

 

Great book I came across in the hotel in London when I went to the Bailey exhibition and Killip Exhibition

Awesome portraits

Good Times

Just a few of my practice shoots

James bond research
Opening credits logo
Very contrasty, black and white, minimal detail
Head shot for top lens of Rollei
Full body shot for lower lens

http://photos.uk.msn.com/slideshow/photos/american-cool/2xxw4ric

My second iconic image
Cindy Sherman

My finished image

So this was my set up for my take on a Guy Bourdin shoot with a little twist.
I will be using a 550D with a 24mm lens, set up on a tripod with a remote shutter release, 2 elinchrom flash heads and an aperture of around f16 for everything to be in focus.

This weekends set up -
Elinchrom D-Lite RX4 with thru umbrella
Elinchrom D-Lite RX4 with softbox
Awesome, just turned up today, full weekend shooting and practicing set up etc.

Open that bottle, get the creative juices flowing

Photograph by Charles O’Rear

An iconic image that people will relate to, but with no people in and not actually recording an event.

"Bliss is the name of a photograph of a landscape in Napa County, California, east of Sonoma Valley. It contains rolling green hills and a blue sky with stratocumulus and cirrus clouds. The image is used as the default computer wallpaper for the “Luna” theme in Windows XP."

extract from wikidreport.com

Iconic images reproduced

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15669670

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/01/us/the-flag-iconic-images/

http://infocus.gettyimages.com/post/what-is-iconic-imagery#.UzRHcNwecpE

Real Heroes

I was also lucky enough to catch a fire training simulation, which is awesome to be part of, the heat is intense and your not allowed to get so close to the action.

Again the sequence is slightly out as the image at the bottom should really be first.

Real Heroes

From my morning at the airport

I'd been asked to go to the Fire Training Ground at Durham Tees Valley Airport to assess their water treatment process and associated drainage system, luckily I'd taken my camera and managed to capture some images of a plane training scenario.

You don't really get much time to think and just had to react, but I thought it would bee a good chance which also would coincide with our latest project.

The images are straight out of camera, so may be could be cropped or worked on slightly.

The image at the bottom is slightly out of sequence and should be second, but trying to sort it on the blog was just a little too frustrating.