Tutorial DVD for Photographers and Photoshop virgins

Ok its time for me to start work on a DVD of Photoshop Tutorials for Photographers and Photoshop virgins.

I plan on taking people through the basics of editing photographs from trying to rescue bad shots, to enhancing good shots.

I have what I think are the essentials, but I'd like to know from others what they'd like to know, and if I haven't already got it on my list, I will add it.

So leave your question in the comments, thanks!

Blog gets a Face Lift

Ok so in between editing the photographs I took last week at Kyps, I thought I'd give the blog a little face lift..

Whatcha think?

Pete Christie in the Studio

Well, Pete invited me down to take some shots of the brass band he was using to finish his album Frank.

What an eye opening experience for me, and for Pete, he'd never tried to mix in brass instruments with guitar before. It was quite a challenge, and after 3 hours of work everyone left exhausted and only 40 seconds of music had been recorded!

I'll post some more photographs from the night later. Thanks for letting me share the evening with you Pete!

Birthday Present

Back in January I took Mark out for a shoot, it was the first time he'd done anything like this and he enjoyed every minute.

So today, he contacted me about purchasing a shoot for his sister's 21st, he went away with a nice gift voucher for a 2 hour location session. What a great brother to have! and a great 21st birthday present to boot!

Photography

So, Monday's shoot with Mr Kyps was cancelled and rescheduled for Weds. My Tuesday portrait session also cancelled and rescheduled for Weds. What a busy day!

Chris George lead singer for Thunderhawk was down from London and wanted to celebrate his loss of weight and new teeth. I took him for a roller coaster ride over 2 hours. You were a lot of fun to shoot Chris, thanks :)

Just the one photo for now, im culling and editing later..

UPDATE:
After culling, I came away from the shoot with 68 winners! This sequence was just to get Mr George warmed up in front of the camera..

Skinny Skulls hit The Winchester Pub, Solid Air

Ok so Monday's gig wasnt as bad as I thought it would be. It was a Solid Air gig, which meant that Conrad was there with his lighting rig (but that poses a problem in itself, he loves to use red gels on his lights..). Again this wasnt a problem, he was willing to take a gel off of one of the lights and have it as white light! so I just added an Off Camera Flash to the side that still had the red gels, and I added my own green gel to my 580EX Speedlite.

Monday Madness

Well, I got a phone call from Mr Kyps who would like me to come into their establishment when its empty and do a shoot of the place for their press release.

On top of that, Skinny Skulls are playing at The Winchester in Bournemouth, and have also invited me out to lunch and want some candid shots of them playing a board game as they relax before the main event. Its not amazing light in that place, I shot some photographs of The Douglas Firs and was at ISO3200 to get a decent shutter speed, so I'm going to put some coloured gels on my speedlites and shoot remote.

Canford School, Dorset

The meeting this morning went great, the marketing dept loved the shots I took, they're making a copy of the proof disc to give to the head of drama, and they expect him to want all 289 shots! I think I'll be able to stretch to giving them a licensing discount on that amount of photographs..
This is a shot they kept coming back to.

And so they've asked me to shoot another play, this time put on by the younger students at the school. They're putting on Oliver, a musical version. So I would think that they'll have plenty of colourful lighting to go with it, should make for some great shots.
The marketing dept is still keen for me to re-shoot the photographs that they need, and will be getting back to me about that ASAP.
Stay tuned!

Canford School's 6th Form 1984 Dress Rehearsal

Canford School asked me to attend their 6th Form (senior for all those from overseas) dress rehearsal of 1984. It was a pleasure to attend and take the photographs, the kids really put their all into this and it shows.








I'm in again possibly next month to re-take some photographs, I'll know more after a meeting tomorrow morning.