Mike Hibbert Photography » Portraits http://blog.mikehibbertphotography.co.uk Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:10:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 Portrait of my housemate (pictures inside) http://blog.mikehibbertphotography.co.uk/photography/portrait-of-my-housemate/ http://blog.mikehibbertphotography.co.uk/photography/portrait-of-my-housemate/#comments Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:57:08 +0000 admin http://blog.mikehibbertphotography.co.uk/?p=32 On monday night we were all sat in our back garden (which is tiny by the way!) and I got my gear out to mess around. Took some photos of Jodie in about 2 minutes! It was a very similar setup to the portrait of took of Jonny. It was a shoot that literally only lasted 2/3 minutes, but it was fun! Good to get the camera gear out whenever you can!

One SB600 camera left, through a white umbrella set at 1/4 power,
One SB600 camera right bare, 1/32 power,
Aperture: f/9.0,
Shutter: 1/160,
ISO: 200.

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Jodie

Jodie

Jodie

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]]> http://blog.mikehibbertphotography.co.uk/photography/portrait-of-my-housemate/feed/ Portrait of a road racing cyclist (pictures inside) http://blog.mikehibbertphotography.co.uk/photography/portrait-of-jonny-road-racing-cyclist/ http://blog.mikehibbertphotography.co.uk/photography/portrait-of-jonny-road-racing-cyclist/#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:29:58 +0000 admin http://blog.mikehibbertphotography.co.uk/?p=17 On the 28th May 2009 my friend and housemate Jonny Hines took part in a road cycling race in Exeter. The race took place before the “Tour of Britain” race. He asked me to come along to take some pictures of him racing - however it turned out that due to my complete lack of experience in any sports/action photography they didn’t turn out very well at all… So I made my way home and when he arrived back at the house later that evening I suggested we do some portraits of him - he agreed.

As it was quite late at night we went out in the back garden and I set up my two speedlights.

One SB600 camera left, through a white umbrella set at 1/4 power,
one SB600 camera right bare, 1/16 power.

I set my camera to manual mode and used a 1/200th shutter speed (as that’s the sync speed of my camera). I then took some test shots and closed down my aperture until I was happy with the lighting; f/8.0.

I took a few snaps of him and they looked pretty cool! As I’m in the middle of university exams currently I didn’t have much time to edit etc so all I did in photoshop was some desaturation of certain colours and some sharpening.

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Jonny Portrait

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