Exciting news for me. Some good freinds of mine, Julie Oswin and Steve Walton have just agreed to run one of their excellent wedding photography courses with me in Oliveto Citra, Italy.
The course is going to run from the 4th May to the 9th May 2008 around this lovely Italian town.
Imagine taking wedding photographs with backgrounds like this.
I can’t wait to get there and get working.
So go on, tell me how you would pose the models here?
I love shooting early morning light landscapes but it’s such a pity you have to get up early to do it! It would be much better if it was after lunch!
this was taken in Italy near Oliveto Citra where I’m about to open my photographic training courses next year. The light is stunning.
Full sunlight also appears much “cleaner” here than in the UK and I’m really going to have to change my outdoor portrait technique, maybe using a Californian Sunbounce reflector if I can find one out there.
See how clear it is with this shot of an old Aqueduct in the same village.
Isn’t the light wonderful?
D2X raw images processed in Lightroom.
Spending some more time with Lightroom and looking back on some old .jpgs and re working them.
Even though they are only jpgs (cos I’m a dedicated raw user really) Lightroom does a fantastic job manipulating the contrast, density and colour of them and along with the vibrancy and saturation you really do have some fantastic control.
I now find it much quicker to use than CS2 (can’t afford to upgrade to CS3) for all general tweeking of images.
What do you think of these?
(I might have slightly over sharpened for web use but the originals print fine)
Comments or questions welcomed.
Am now working on stock images for photo libraries. I find the hardest and slowest part doing the captions and writing the IPC data. Does anyone know of a good program that makes this task any easier? There must be one somewhere.
I’m still working on images taken on the Ricoh GX100. I shot them in .jpg but used Lightroom to process them by adding vibrancy and saturation in a batch. The results from such a small camera are, I think, really good. I haven’t yet done any comparisons with raw and jpg of the same image but as a RAW only man I’m slowly being converted into shooting more jpgs.
Has anyone else used the GX100 with a vengeance? Please let me know what you think of it.
Now this is on screen it looks as though i’ve pulled the shadows too much but I still like the shot. The guy looking up at the bottom left makes it for me. Any comments welcome.
This is also on the GX100 and the detail held in the original image is really good. This camera is SO MUCH BETTER than the Leica I was using. Sorry Leica fans but the D lux 3 was a pile of poop. I couldn’t even see where to aim it in bright sunshine because it doesn’t have a viewfinder and the gloss screen monitor was so poor. It wasn’t just that I couldn’t aim it – the images never came up to scratch either. The Ricoh just blows it away.
