Mike Hibbert Photography

Portrait of my housemate (pictures inside)

admin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:57:08 +0000

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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Strobist

admin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:41:35 +0000

I’m sure that alot of you have heard of this website before but if not, here it is!

http://strobist.blogspot.com/
It’s an excellent blog by David Hobby, containing posts about his day to day assignments, and also features “Lighting 101″ and “Lighting 102″ which are brilliant tutorials on how to get started with strobism!

(Strobism is using your regular flashes off camera to gain more flattering light)

Mike.

Portrait of a road racing cyclist (pictures inside)

admin — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:29:58 +0000

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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About me…

admin — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:24:05 +0000

I started photography around March 2008 when I bought a Nikon D40 with the intention of shooting concerts. If I’m honest the idea of getting into concerts for free appealed to me! The concerts were going well but eventually I hit a bit of a brick wall - my D40 just had too much noise for gig photography. So around Christmas 2008 I upgraded to a Nikon D90. My equipment list is currently:

Nikon D90
2 x Nikon SB600’s
2 x Light stands
2 x Gadget Infinity radio triggers
2 x White shoot through 40″ umbrellas
Lowepro Mini-Trekker AW

I use Sandisk memory cards and have Photoshop CS3 installed on a Apple MacBook 13″.

The gigs are still going well (although I haven’t done many recently due to university being very busy!) and I’m also expanding into other areas of photography now - so keep checking back!

I’ll start to post some photography-related junk up on here soon!

Mike.