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Finding Inspiration

Lords of Light

I found myself stuck for inspiration the other day so I thought I'd get some ideas from other images, but not in the sense of stealing (see below)

StumbleUpon

Stumbleupon was the first place I started looking. By using the toolbar I was able to select Photography (within Art) and only show photos. When I do find an image I like, apart from the thumbs up, I also tend to have a look at the rest of the site. That leads me onto some of the following sites.  read more »

Lightweight Light Stands

Eyeball setting

I've been using my new lightstands for a couple of weeks now. I'm impressed them for the price, but remember that, it's based on the price. They're lightweight and relatively easy, but a bit slow to put up and very, very basic.

Specifications

The stands are the Konig KN-LS10. They have a centre column supported by tripod legs with bracing. The legs fold back onto the centre column reducing the packed length to just over 80cm. Fully extended and they reach to 2m.  read more »

First Impressions of the Yongnuo CTR-301p

Eyeball setting

I took delivery of the Yongnuo CTR-301P wireless flash trigger and receiver yesterday. So far I like the kit.  read more »

Creating images using normal, everyday objects

I like creating images using objects I find around the house or the garage. It's not quite an optical illusion apart from the fact that (with some imagination) you may think you're seeing something whereas actually it's an image of something very different.

The two main tricks I've found for making this work better are:  read more »

The Relaunch of alancward.co.uk as a photographic site

I used to use this site domain as a test-bed for another site (Award Sounds). I've decided I want to separate out some of the content from that site and so, from now on, I'm going to change this site to become a photographer-centric site.

Specifically, I'll showcase my images, photographic news and information I think others will be interested in. Rather than tack the site down for a few weeks, I'll continue to let it run and change it over bit by bit.

See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil

A shot using a single exposure to make an image of the three monkeys of See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Speak No Evil.

I'm also the subject in this case. The grim expression is concentration as I only had 20 seconds for the whole exposure, including changing props, changing position and triggering the flash. I usually smile more :-)



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