Creative Collaboration With Other Artists

Creative Artist Collaboration 2012.

Copenhagen & Cardiff

I am looking to create aesthetic photoshoots with various designers & models on a TF basis though contributions are welcomed in realising the projects idea.

The main idea here is to merge various artistic genres and artistic skills into a photographic/film shoot, contributing an original and open minded approach to a creative project.

Submit a small outcast of your work to PulverulencePhotography@gmail.com 

*show a variety of your work to support your skills

 *list what you can offer to the project

*a small introduction of yourself

Any artists are welcome to join and contribute.

It is important that anyone who decide to join is serious and ambitious to realising the project.

Your contributions to the project will be credited as appropiately.

Depending how many apply to join the collaboration - the number of projects that will take place will be varied.
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There will be small Photography Meet-ups planned in Copenhagen & Cardiff as well
to bring us artist together and learn from each other.

Further into the year, I will also provide an opportunity to have a Photography Workshop with me.

 I wish you all a very happy new year! : )

"Owl & Fur Obsession"

Owl Obsession

A self portrait photoshoot at my parent's home, with my self made studio from bits and pieces. I finally got around to testing my new camera out for a self portrait shoot. I employed the creative mode settings and I've found the soft setting to be rather appealing for this shoot. The theme required a soft and elegant atmosphere. I threw in a bit of low key lighting for some images to achieve a slightly emotive melancholy/antique mood.

 

 

Click on the images to view all in a slideshow

Jewelry & Gloves by Accessorize

Blouse by Vero Moda

Owl by Paperchase

New Additions To My Gear & Test Shoots

New Camera

So I've bought an addition to my gear, a Canon EOS 60d and two speedlights; a Canon 580ex II and a 430ex II, which was well overdue I might add.


I'm looking forward to shooting some videos with this bad boy ^.^





Canon EOS 60D

 
 

Canon 580ex ii

 

Canon 430ex ii

 



I will update this blog post with a video I took today where I did a review of the fastpack 350 by lowepro and a quick introduction to my camera gear, with a tiny review of the Canon 60D .

Stay Tuned :)

 Test Shoot



I had a quick test shoot with Lone, testing the 580ex ii speedlight out in the night of Frederiksberg. Lone was so lovely and patient with me as I went through various settings. At this time I hadn't been able to bring my lightstands with me from the UK so I modified an old tripod I had lying around at my parent's to fit one flash. I decided to wait with using both flashes until I got my lightstands back from my sister's in B'ham.

Model: Lone J.

Location: Frederiksberg



 

  

There are a few harsh shadows here and there, mainly caused by too much speedlight power, not enough diffuse and the speedlight needed to be positioned much higher up than my tripod could allow me to do.  I'll add some photos of the lighting set up next time too with a few sketches maybe. 

Generally there was too much fiddling work that night but Lone has agreed to help me out again with another shoot :)

PhotoTipTricks & Light:

The key creative flexibility that you can work with during night photography is your surrounding - so make use of the available light from the street lamps and any other light. Bringing candle lantern could make for an interesting light as well. They can act as backlight or add to the photo's emotive atmosphere. The background will have a more interesting effect as it will be fused with various lights from buildings or cars rather than pitch black darkness.

You can also make use of your reflector in this situation by bouncing light from your speedlight or a flashlight - be creative, be openminded and be without limits. ^.^

I hope this helped! :)

Maleficient Noir

Sarachemet & Film Noir

/Avant Garde Inspired Photo

Model  Abi Rose

Assistant Bahram E.

Location Cardiff, Roarth Park.



"Sarachemet"

Maleficient Noir Shoot

We picked up Abi in the morning near Cardiff Castle and I drove us to Roarth Park. The weather was quite gloomy from the start so my original location, which was located quite far in Brecon seemed like a longshot.

I did Abi's make up and hair on location, unfortunately I forgot my pins so I had to be Very creative and resourceful with the veils. Fortunately, I had presown the shape of the veils which made things easier.

This was the first time I was going to work with an alternative model so I was rather excited to try something different. Needless to say, Abi was lovely, very open minded and took directions well. The shoot went quite nicely, despite the continous light rain showers that came and went.

My handy assistant held the reflector above my flash to make sure it didn't shortcut, though it was protected from the rain it wasn't protected from me. I accidently bumped it and it went flying down to the ground. Surprisingly, it was fine, just a scratch. oh, Amie..





The Lighting Setup for this shoot had to be very flexible so I opted for one off camera flash, a Metz 48 AF 1 for Canon camera and a reflector to bounce it off.

I had a sketch somewhere of one of the images accurate setups but can't seem to retrieve it. So, I'll explain it in words.

The flash was positioned 2-3 meters away from the subject. Distance in flash photography is crucial and depending on the position of the subject, the setting and creative effects you wish to employ for the shoot you need to constantly evaluate and take into consideration.

I usually bounce off the flash with my reflector for a bit of backlight, an assistant or reflector stand helps. If you are one of those who usually work without an assistant and found that the reflector stand tilts over a lot, I recommend you use sandbags ( I do a big "no no", I use my camera bag along side one sand bag to keep the stand in place if I'm without an assistant, it works just fine though ^.^)

With my single Metz flash I don't use diffusers, softboxes or umbrellas outdoors as I've found it to be just powerful enough to light the subjects as I like it without light burning the images or making too harsh shadows.

I've noticed some photographers start by using diffuser caps on their flashes for outdoor photography. There is no need or use for it unless you can bounce the light off like on a white wall, which is quite rare for on location shoots. It simply drains your batteries using unnecessary power.  Best thing is to stick with a softbox or economically with an umbrella. (home made tip for now in PhotoTipTricks)

PhotoTipTricks You can also be creative with an umbrella and turn it into a softbox by using a bit of foil and thick shower curtain material, sow an eleastic band around it and pop it right at the back of the umbrella, make sure to pop a hole for the handle.

A good trick is to get some ball bungees to make use of the tree branches around you, it will steadily hold the flash and it's very reliable.

 I've found such good use from it as it provides greater flexibility and now, sometimes I don't need to bring my lightstand with me which makes my equipment lighter for my poor back. Though that wasn't an issue for this shoot when I still had my lovely Tiguan Volks Car :P

How I miss you :(