Good day in the Studio with used aftershave Bottle...

I have quite a few used aftershave bottles. So i thought i'd use them for something...

After some tests in the studio on Friday, i settled on this one.

Chocolate Brownies

So i made a batch of Chocolate brownies the other day. The pack came with a disposable baking tray and so on finishing the brownies (not sure if i had the last one!), I thought i'd get a shot of it, as i thought it would look different.

I must say that the image to the idea in my imagination looked more punchier than the final but i like it.

Chocolate Brownie tray

Rest of the image sequence

Here are the rest of the images to the brief shoot with Nephi.

Vignette added to the original image. Think it looks better.

Fashion Shoot with Nephi

I have put together a small shoot with Nephi. This gave me chance to try out a new addition to my gear - the 70cm elinchrom beauty dish. I think i like it.

Here's a quick 2 image(s) of the 6 shots.

Youth Style

So I tried my SX70 out.

Here are some pics from today. Credit to the teenagers i met for getting these shots.

Polaroid SX 70

I have now bought a polaroid sx70. There seems to be a bit of a revival to polaroid now that the Impossible project has started to churn out new film and therefore giving newbies like me a reason to use the old skool polaroid cameras.

So, here is the SX 70 that i have recently bought.

All flat packed down.

Ready to use.

When I got the camera, it had a pack of film in it, but unfortunately the film didnt work. At first I though the camera was bust and I had wasted the whole of £21 for the camera. It didnt work at this stage because the battery had long since died. It must have been in the camera for a lonnng time.

Original polaroid. Wow. The pack was full as well. gutting.

I did try to expose some sheets in my polaroid back of my Mamiya RB67, using black cloth bags... but this old pack film has seen better years whilst sat in the camera. Nothing came out. The chemicals had all crystallised and were crushed as i put the sheet through the roller.

I did buy a pack of new(ish) film to test in the camera. it now works a treat.

Free Range exhibition London

Here is a snapshot of my final year exhibition. It was based on a youth identity project and it was shown at the Free Range exhibition in late June of this year.

Polaroids

It has been a long time since I have posted anything, though I have been super hectic with wrapping up my degree and making the transition into the REAL world :)

I have wanted to do more stuff with polaroid for some time. I bought a polaroid big shot camera back in 2009 but I have been trying to get hold of a hotshoe for it so that i can replace the need to use magicubes.

I finally got hold of an antique prinz 110 hotshoe adapter that works very nicely with a sunpak flash gun.

I have since utilised the bigshot in the studio, slaving the flashgun with strobes. I rated my fp100c film at f32 and have got some decent results!

Here are a couple of results

Test for rating the fp100c with magicubes.

Studio shot sync't with bowens strobes using a sunpak flash as a slave from my polaroid bigshot.

Same as. Courtesy of Moira :)