Misty Saturday

We've been enjoying two days of amazing sunshine but on Saturday I arrived in Edinburgh to the densest fog I've seen in a while.  Grabbed this picture just after jumping off the Megabus.  Bladerunner vibes!

Paw Prints MUSIC VIDEO - Production Stills

Here are some production stills from the Tango in the Attic Paw Prints music video shoot courtesy of talented photographer Fraser Stephen.  God that place was muddy!

Under Exposure

In this series I have experimented with under exposure to capture the dramatic high contrast light I found on Arthur's Seat this Sunday.  These stills were taken in RAW at up to two stops under the metered exposure.  After reducing contrast and pulling in the black levels and exposure to retain all the dynamic range, I opened the images in Photoshop at 16 bits per channel.  I then gamma'd down the image with a curves layer, then painted back important details by placing a masked exposure layer underneath.

Stills from Portobello

I've been back in Edinburgh since last month and staying by the sea has given me a few great opportunities to capture some stills.  Here are four of my favourites.  All have been processed in RAW to recover all available dynamic range and then in photoshop at 16 bit.

360° Panorama

I recently purchased the 8mm f/3.5 fisheye from Samyang in order to do create 360°  panoramic HDRI's for my VFX work and take sweet hip-hop style images;

HDRI light probe environment light test in Nuke

LDR still at eV 0

I shot an oversized christmas bauble from each side of my room using Magic Lantern on my 550d to bracket the exposures at -5, -2.5, 0, +2.5 and +5eV. The large exposure steps did introduce some banding when converted to HDRI.  Also, taking the stills with no tripod and not measuring distances resulted in shallow focus and the need to adjust the input rotation in the spherical transform when matching one lightprobe angle to the other in Nuke.  I also realise now that if I took the second set of exposures at a 90° angle form the first rather than 180° then I could have removed myself from the final image.

Telegraph Picture of the Day!

Ailsa and I were featured on the Telegraph's picture of the day today! Was the first time I ever had a contact lens put in and it took quite a few attempts.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/5386738/Pictures-of-the-day-26-May-2009.html?image=9

Zombification for the Nation!

A picture I took of Duncan after Ailsa Lawson (TBAD Graduate) made us both up as Zombes to publicise her degree show. Some photographers from a couple of newspapers came and took some but of course I think mine are superior. ;)

Bangin'

http://gallery.xemanhdep.com/2009/05/24-impressive-dark-and-light-photos/

Found these unbelievable images on stumble. Impossible wide angle HDR madness. Would love to have a film full of matte paintings like this, but how would you match the crazy lenses!!?