The youth of today… (7/25)

/in , ,

The youth of today..
The youth of today...

My young friend Jemima, ‘socialising’ in the pub.

Advent Calendar Pic-A-Day 7/25
50mm 1.4, natural (phone) light :)
9826

Defocussed…

/in , ,

defocussed..

Advent Calendar Pic-A-Day 6/25
An experiment in deliberate defocussing..
Handheld, 100mm Macro + 25mm Extension Tube
9804

Five..

/in , ,

5

Bit of a frustrating day of not a lot of time/inspiration today but I was sorting out my gear box and thought I’d dig out the Macro lens and find something on my desk. As it’s the 5th this seemed appropriate

100mm Macro, plus a 25mm extension tube. LED ring-light. Hand-held

Share the Love (4/25)

/in , ,

Advent Calendar Pic-A-Day #4/25

Share the Love...

iPhone 4S with Camera+
0861

A Miracle on Silver St… (3/25)

/in , ,

A Miracle on Silver St…

Advent Calendar Pic-a-Day, Day 3/25

A Miracle on Silver St...

One of the exquisite decorations my lovely friend Charlie has on a tree in her Christmas Shop ‘A Miracle on Silver St’ in Dursley..

9664

Advent Calendar, 2nd Dec

/in , ,

‘Blossom’, aka how to keep your model happy during a cold afternoon shoot in the forest..

Blossom

Dope Awards… I won!

/in , ,

A couple of weeks ago I received a mail to say that one of my photos had been nominated for an award, it was this photo of Arleta Andreasik.
I accepted the nomination and sent them a few technical details about the shot etc. and thought nothing more of it until this morning, when I received another mail to say we’d won, so yay!

Advent Calendar, 1st December

/in , ,

Westonbirt-iPhone-0789

To keep in the spirit of ‘The best camera is the one you have with you’ I thought I’d start with an iPhone shot.

I did actually take it yesterday at Westonbirt, but I did so specifically for this project.

Taken on my iPhone 4S and processed on the phone in Camera+
No external editing other than adding my watermark on export from Lightroom to Flickr.

Richard Olpin
Site Admin

Posts: 680
Joined: Sat Jul 25, 2009 11:17 pm
Location: Gloucestershire, UK

More details in this post and on the forum

Paris in the Summertime…

/in ,

I spent the last week in August in the beautiful city of Paris, where I was very busy with some interesting photographic projects!

The main purpose of the trip was to visit my friend Ian who lives there and to help him run a workshop on portrait photography. One of his specialties is engagement/celebration shoots for couples. They’re mostly visiting tourists who want a tour of Paris to see some of the most picturesque parts of the city and obviously to get some memorable photos of them along the way. Ian had a couple of shoots planned while I was there, so I was happy to tag along and help out..

Here’s one of Anna and Larry:



The workshop itself went really well, with four photographers attending, Beata and Kasia were two Polish girls from Hull, my friend Gareth came down from Dundee and then the very talented Buffy who’d flown in from the United States. We had two excellent models for the day, Kevin and Céline who were very professional and an absolute pleasure to work with.







Hopefully Ian will be running a similar workshop next year, so watch this space for news of that and a potential Parisian photographic trip I’ll be organising in the springtime too.

The Severn Bridge by Mike Lowe

Another happy customer..

/in , ,

Had a nice email from one of my recent training clients Mike earlier today which included a very kind testimonial about his training day with me last month. Here’s what he had to say..

[frame_right src=”http://www.richardolpin.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/MikeLowe-0578-200×300.jpg” href=”http://www.richardolpin.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/MikeLowe-0578.jpg” rel=’gallery’]Mike Lowe[/frame_right]
[quote]Thanks for the one-to-one training that we did. Although I’ve been around photography a while I decided to do a one-to-one training session after recently purchasing my first DSLR.

I really enjoyed the training I received. Crucially you listened to me and understood my experience and aspirations immediately and then tailored the training toward that. I can’t express how important that was in making me feel valued and that I’m getting the most out of the training. Your passion about photography energised me throughout the day and still does now.

You clearly showed me technical aspects of photography and my camera in a way that I would understand. You also set me fun and challenging exercises to enhance the things you were teaching me.

I think we went over our agreed end time while you continued to show me some post processing techniques. I came away from our training with greater understanding, creatively inspired and proud of the shots I took. So much so that a couple of weeks later when walking to work I saw a scene on Bristol docs that to me begged to me shot. But I didn’t have my camera on me all I had was my phone. I had you words echoing in my ears ‘sometimes you don’t have time to set up you just got to get the shot with what you got’. Previously I would have walked on by, but this time without any prep I took several shots on my phone. Now, although they didn’t come out fantastic they caught the mood of the moment that I was looking for and a few days later my photograph was published as Picture of The day in the local paper. I’m a published photographer! LOL

– Thanks Richard!
[/quote]