Our awesome underwater Save The Date wedding cards…
Posted on | September 5, 2010 | 4 Comments
Our awesome underwater wedding save the date cards – they came out way better than we expected! Thanks to my lady Siobhan for all her hard work hand making every single one. We hired a swimming pool for a couple of hours which was fortunately quite close to where we live, and borrowed the underwater help of Siobhan’s brother and his underwater camera kit. We used a Canon G10 and a underwater strobe for these pics, I dialled in the settings on the camera to how I wanted it to work, and handed the camera to Gords who took the shots until we got something we liked. We made Siobhan a ‘dress’ by using a 4 metre length of white satin, clipped together with pins and the help of our friend Louise, who helped Siobhan not drown in a mass of heavy satin. I went out and bought some cheap black trousers, shirt and tie – an odd feeling being in a pool fully dressed with a tie. I then processed the images in Lightroom, and got them printed by moo.com, and then Siobhan then blended brown ink onto the back of each and every one, until we got the desired effect. I think they turned out brilliantly, thanks Vaughn.
Tags: canon G10 > postcards > save the date > underwater > underwater photography > wedding
Photographs overlooking Lindos, on Rhodes island, Greece
Posted on | September 3, 2010 | No Comments
Three photographs of the view of the town of Lindos, situated on the South West coast of Rhodes island in Greece, taken a couple of weeks ago when we were at a excellent wedding in Lindos main town.
Tags: greece > lindos > rhodes > Travel > travel photography
Underwater photography with a Poseidon rebreather – Testing kit
Posted on | September 2, 2010 | No Comments
We had the opportunity to test out a new scuba diving rebreather courtesy of Poseidon UK and my local scuba diving centre in Norwich, Norfolk. This Poseidon Diving Systems MkVI Discovery rebreather is the first truly recreational closed circuit rebreathers, perfect for the professional underwater scuba diving photographer.
Without boring you with the details they allow you to spend a lot longer underwater, and you expel no bubbles whatsoever, thus giving you a massive advantage by allowing you to get much closer to the underwater world that you would normally get with a standard scuba diving setup. This was my first time on a closed circuit system like this, and it was pretty enjoyable – I can definitely see the advantages to this kind of system for underwater photography. I only tried this new Poseidon MkVI Discovery rebreather in a swimming pool – so apart from a few rogue plasters there was little life to be scared away… not an adequate test.. but maybe next time I’ll be using it properly.
It was an interesting feeling breathing through a rebreather, once I got my buoyancy sorted it was incredibly easy to use (within reason – it is a piece of mega tech!)
Getting my head around the fact the air is just going round and round and being injected and mixed, cleaned and pumped to make it fresh again was a weird feeling! They retail around £5000, with around £20 per scrubber replacement every 3hrs.. a mere snip! Found some cool scuba diving t shirts whilst looking for scuba kit though…
Tags: MkVI Discovery > Poseidon > Poseidon scuba > rebreather > underwater > underwater photography
Photo: Awesome old beaten up scooter in Lindos, Rhodes – Greece
Posted on | September 1, 2010 | No Comments
Loving this tattered old scooter moped thing (what’s the proper name?!) – well loved and used every day, sitting in the baking sunshine on the streets of the island of Rhodes, Greece. Taken on the 5Dmk2 with the 16-35mmL 2.8 Canon lens, still loving this lens – and have pretty much kept it on my camera since I bought it months and months ago…
Tags: 16-35mm > greece > lindos > old > rhodes > scooter > Travel > wide angle
Photo: A study in blue… a love of contrast and texture
Posted on | September 1, 2010 | 2 Comments
I don’t know why, I just quite like the texture, colour and contrast in this photograph. This was taken in a side street in Lindos, Rhodes Island, Greece a couple of weeks ago.
My View of Lindos, Rhodes. A walk along the streets..
Posted on | August 30, 2010 | No Comments
Walking around the pretty whitewashed streets of Lindos both in the early morning and late evening when the sun was at it’s coolest and before the tourists got in the way. The fourth image down is my favourite in this selection, the contrast between the two sides and textures makes for an interesting image.
Tags: blue
The Acropolis of Lindos – Rhodes, Greece.
Posted on | August 28, 2010 | No Comments
A beautiful view from the top of the Acropolis in Lindos, Rhodes. We got up there just after sunrise – the sea was incredibly flat and peaceful, and no tourists around at all. Wonderful.
Tags: acropolis > Acropolis of Lindos > greece > lindos > rhodes > Travel
Photo: Stand-off between a truck and a disability scooter
Posted on | August 27, 2010 | No Comments
Walked past these guys in the streets of Lindos, Rhodes a couple of weeks ago. They had come to a stand off, as the man in the disability scooter had his wheel caught on a step, and the guy in the car was refusing to reverse far enough. They were there long enough to attract a couple of ‘hands on hip’ staring men in the background.
Photos of the wedding chapel at St Pauls Bay, Lindos on Rhodes island – Greece
Posted on | August 27, 2010 | No Comments
In the pretty town of Lindos, on the South coast of Rhodes sits the little chapel at St Paul’s Bay, where we attended a great wedding a couple of weeks ago. Out for a stroll in the evening to take a few photographs of the bay, having been sheltering from the heat for most of the day – well, since laying in the sun a few hours earlier… The wedding went really well and was very enjoyable to be there, a pretty place to have your wedding. Thanks Kerry & Chris!
I’ll hopefully be putting some of my other images of Rhodes up in the next few days, I have a few more photographs I would like to add on my blog assuming I remember. It was a great 10 day little escape from the grey skies here in England, and miss the glorious Rhodes sunshine already!
Tags: photography > st pauls bay > wedding greece > wedding lindos > wedding rhodes
Canon EF 8-15mm f/4 coming out soon, but I want it sooner! | Review
Posted on | August 27, 2010 | No Comments
Great news today for techy Canon lens fans, Canon have decided to release a new wide angle lens, and as anyone that knows me will know I’m a little obsessed with using wide angle lenses – and this isn’t going to make my addiction any better.It is has been designed to offer both circular and full frame images, which will appeal to both markets and sensor sizes.
For instance if I want to use my old 10-20mm Sigma wide angle on my Canon 5DMK2 it’s just creates a wierd looking fisheye image that just doesn’t work -
Canon 8-15mm L lens (Image from DP Review)
so hence why I bought the 16-35L 2.8 Canon lens, to get a nice and sharp wide angle for my full frame camera. So this lens offers everything, I could use it on the 5DMK2 at 8mm and get a full 180 degree photograph, or use it at 15mm and have a super sharp ultra wide angle photograph, but having the choice ‘on camera’ is excellent – I certainly think this could be a big seller perhaps?
Update: 01/09/2010 – This lens has now been put on sale to pre order at certain stockists, here is a link if you want more information on current price or to pre-order this lens on Warehouse Express: Click here.
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