Me & M2 bought a pair of studio lights and are in the process of clearing my garage and preparing it for a studio build. We will be looking for people to help out with testing the setup. We will also being experimenting with outdoor lighting soon.
Progress pics to follow shortly.
So July so far has been a bit of a busy one. Shoot start of the month, week break with family, got the cold, MOT’d the car. ordered studio lights (Not great ones) and dog had to goto vet with a lump and it was not looking good for him for a while. Met Emma-Jayne who is a beautiful, keen young girl willing to help and busting to get good shots from me. First attempt was in really bad weather, we lasted the best part of 45 mins MAX. A handful of good shots but the weather did keep us on our toes. Shoot no.2 is coming up for us and let’s hope this is a taving success.
As some may know my edit has been swinging towards a certain Dave Hill style. Two things here, firstly, this was a style I was aiming to achieve before I even heard of Dave Hill (honest) and secondly, is immitation not the best form of flattery!!?? I will not achieve the Dave Hill style yet. There is too much to learn in flawless editing, lighting and composition. What I have noticed is that I am either expecting too much from my edits, I am at the limit of the camera sensor/lens/both for clarity in my images or I have no idea what I am at. Everyone says the stuff I do is good but my cynical little brain tells me they are being polite! Yeah, it is hard to accept a compliment.
M2. What can I say, joining me in the togging lark has taken to it like a duck to water. His recent images of Elaine are masterful! (There, you see, a compliment to him and he will think I am just being polite, Bloody Artist types!). Here’s to us ever improving to the point people may queue for us to shoot them. And we don’t charge. We try to not involve money.
Money. Everyone wants some. My personal thoughts on money and photography are the usual. I ask people to pose for me, they donate their time and in return they get images from me. I do not do model release forms basically because I have NO intention of selling the work so there is no fear of it being used without the person’s consent or a lawsuit following. I will however charge for weddings (When I get the chance to do one) family portraits unless it is a favour, or extended days out that are an inconvenience or photographing something that isn’t of particular interest to me. Like, someone’s garden. The usual applies when it is close friends and family and I do support loyality to people that have worked with me. They get special preference… 
The charging of work, if it ever happens, will be to enhance my equipment (keep the thoughts clean!) or add to it to further the photography.
Studio…
As mentioned earlier a couple of crappy lights have been bought with the plan to purchase more later. These crappy ones will be used outdoors so if they fall over, cheap lights break, not good expensive ones. We will set up a studio in a garage sometime for winter shoots! In the meantime we may organise a trip to a studio, pay for it and grab a victim to come along and pose.
That should be it for July. August is another month and lets hope it is a successful one!
I have to thank the people that have helped me progress throughout my photography journey.
In no particular order or importance…
My wife and Kids! For understanding and allowing my absence and the support to keep going.
M2, (and family) for the support, help, companionship and advice.
Amanda, My first!
Shannon, My first Studio and Lingerie
Anna, Such a lovely girl
Jenna, Keen as mustard, very energetic
Rachael, A lovely person, very angelic
Louise, fun and perfection!
Cyrus, My first bloke!
Zara, This girl is sooo talented.
Terri, Energetic, multiskilled and a natural. Like a duck to water
Elaine, Mad as a box of frogs. Keen, energetic, good fun.
Emma, Very nice girl, we need more time with her!
Claire, Keen, willing and very good company
Emma-Jayne, Enthuiastic, daring and committed!
Without the help of these people (and more) I could not move forward in photography.
T H A N K S E V E R Y O N E !
JUST in case anyone visits and notices the site is slow the reason for that is because it is a residential internet connection used for other things other than this web hosting. Basically, I will be using it for downloads, streaming, surfing email etc as well as my web and email hosting. This is not a fault. I just don’t thing it is worth it as yet to host this in an online hosting company. (£25/yr I think).
Maybe in the future, there are more important things to wory about. So don’t panic.
Michael.
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Recent shoot with Elaine and Claire. Pictures starting to appear now.
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Just finished a few Elaine night pics. They can be found here.
http://www.gallerydigital.co.uk/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=5808
Claire images will be starting to appear soon.
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Finished the Marathon pictures upload. There were loads of pictures,some good, some not so good. The main aim was to get as much up for the competitors. A more detailed edit and touch up can be done on request (depending on original image quality and composition). Just contact us.
Just go to the Gallery and you will find it under /MISC/SPORT/
In there you should find the Ards 1/2 Marathon section. Any problems viewing, contact us and we can help.
Just back from a mammoth shoot. The Ards 1/2 Marathon! Starting from 6.30pm, finishing around 9pm and a total of around 1000+ shots between M1 and M2 AND a good bit of walking!
Pictures can be seen by looking HERE
Dont forget to check out both albums!
Also these pictures will be updated as they are processed so keep checking regularly! This can be done easily by visiting this site:
HERE
and bookmarking it as it will show you recent updates without having to trawl through the gallery.
A hard but enjoyable day for us and well done everyone who did the run! More than I could do!
Thanks
Michael (M1)
A link to the Gallery RSS feed has been created in the links section (just over there on the right).
This will enable you to check to see if there is ANY change to the gallery without having to go through every section. This can be bookmarked in your browser and with any RSS view software applications you have.
You can also get an RSS feed from each individual album and store that if that suits better. This will make it easier for anyone we have worked with expecting to see images, instead of continual messages txts etc informing of new pics, this will be an immediate updated status of the gallery.
It may be a little slow as it has to check for updates and it runs on a little computer. As the site matures and there isnt much setting up needed then updates should be small and frequent which should speed up load times.
(The site may in the future end up in a more powerful, stable platform if the need arises)
We hope this improves the functionality of GalleryDigital.
Welcome to GalleryDigital, New look!
All the usual news, info and blog on GalleryDigital’s activities just using new technology.
The Gallery has been re-created as well. It can be found at
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The gallery has been separated into various areas:
Client:
This is where photos are placed where people have specifically asked us to take photos.
Modeling:
This is where we will be putting our modeling photos.
Misc:
Where everything else goes that is not a client album or modeling album.
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