The bookings have reached the dizzy heights of 17 people who have already paid their deposits and will be attending the March 2010 event. Pretty good to say we are just under a year away. Other people have expressed an interest and sadly some of them will definitely be disappointed if they all want to come because there are more “interested” people than there are beds.
There are probably many more people who would like to attend but don’t even know about the event yet so for them let me explain a little more.
It’s a “not for profit” event where everyone shares the cost of the rent of the house and pays a contribution for the models and facilitators. Everyone cooks their own meals and tidies up after themselves and also share their ideas with everyone.
There are 3 informal group meetings per session with 3 sessions per day. These group meetings are loosely led by someone but everyone in the group can offer their own opinions at any time.
If anyone wants to volunteer to lead a group they can do if they want to share a particular technique that they think others will benefit from.
There is a model at each session and session titles range from Shooting under Difficult Existing Light to Trash the Dress and Boudoir to the Bride Getting Ready. Weddings and Portraiture techniques will be covered and the models are also available for private hire if delegates wants to shoot for their own portfolio.
With a price ticket of only £180 for the 4 nights accommodation and all the sessions it’s a great way of expanding your own knowledge and meeting other like minded people.
This is the Hallway. Where would you put the model?
If you are interested in attending have a look at my site at www.prgh.co.uk/2010.html and if you have any further questions please just ask.
Once back in the UK I have to keep myself busy.
First gig on the list will be the resurrection of my annual week away event in March 2010.
In 2010 it’s going to be held in the Peak District near Buxton in a fabulous house on the moor.
It has thirteen bedrooms and some beautiful rooms for photography in.
I’ve already got one model booked and looking for at least 2 more. Skyy has already confirmed and having worked with her before I know she’s going to be stunning as usual.
If anyone wants more details please have a look here
We are going to be covering Wedding, Portrait, Glamour and Fine art Nude photography, software workflows using Lightroom2 plus marketing and sales – essential during periods of small growth to maximise your business potential. Real life problems faced with real life people.
UPDATE We’ve now got 19 people promising to book for the event so I’m sure we are going to have fun. If you are interested you need to be quick to book your bed.
Yesterday I did a join up of three images taken with a 25mm lens on the Nikon D3. Nothing clever in that, of course, but I had an otherwise quiet day.
I’m not sure it will look it’s best on here at this small size and I’m not sure how to upload so it’s clickable to go to another page at full size. If anyone can tell me how to do it I will.
A cold Sunday morning
I then started thinking about the 18mm lens and how some people in blogs and reviews I’ve read complain about it showing reflections from the sun. Of course it does because it’s a wide angle of view up and down as well as sidewards and so you have more chance of getting the sun in the lens than you have with a less wide lens. I don’t think the internal working of the lens is bad it’s just the angle is so good. If this pano shot had been taken with the 18mm lens the sun would have been in the shot so the flare and internal reflections would have been forced to be worse.
Unless someone can show me the same shot with a different make of lens but the same angle of view without internal flare. Any offers?
I also just re processed a shot I did ages ago using Lightroom2 – it’s shot on a D2X with the lovely 50mm f1.4 lens. I wonder just how much better it would have been on the D3.
It’s now the olive picking time in this part of Italy and the locals are all hard at work. Here’s an image I took out of my office window.
Taken on the D3 with 200m f2.8 lens and worked on in Lightroom and photoshop.
The weather here is still warm during the day but the nights have dropped cooler now. Still much better the England though!
It’s a shame the image size has to be reduced for here as this image is really quite stunning at full size.
I’ve also been reworking some images taken about 4 years ago and a Nikon D1X using Lightroom2. Here’s one making full use of negative clarity and the retouching brush – nice effect, I think
jaedyn
Again, shame this is only small but I think you should get the idea.
Why no posts at the moment?
Because I’m back in the UK for a 6 week contract. I drove from Oliveto Citra to Rotterdam and then caught the over night ferry to Hull. 1500 miles in 2 days is a bit of a long drive and I think I’ll take 2 overnights to go back starting on the 27th December. Promise I will post more once I’m back in Italy – oh how I’m missing it……
A couple more images from the shoot I did last week of the model Skyy Lane.
Skyy Lane in Italy
and one taken late in the evening in Oliveto Citra on the D3. The D3 is just fantasting at high ISO settings isn’t it.
Skyy in Oliveto Citra at night
Sky in Oliveto Citra.The D3 set at 1250 ISO – stunning, I think. It never fails to amaze me when ever I use it on a high ISO setting. I hear some people say they prefer taking film – what on earth for?????
For those of you who like video’s instead of stills – here’s one I did earlier. To see the full width of the video please click the red title at the top of this column and then turn up the volume….
Have just finished doing a glamour shoot for a model from the UK. Skyy came to spend a few days here to get some images for her portfolio and send some for publication in a couple of magazines, hopefully.
Skyy
This was shot using portable studio lights outdoors and then processed from a Nikon D3 raw file in Lightroom 2.
I’m going to be using more outdoor flash as I really like this effect.
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