Video: New adventures with Video | Canon 5DMK2

This week has been a steep learning curve, finally had some time to jump straight into 1080p HD video with my Canon 5DMK2 and other kit. Wow, a lot to learn, and then started up Final Cut Pro…. things then got a whole lot more complicated within seconds..
I took the logical step of spending a [...]

First test HD 1080p footage from the Canon 5D MK2

Started testing the Canon 5Dmk2 1080p HD video capability today & getting to grips with the camera, Final Cut Pro, MpegStreamer and everything else that goes along with it. I’m not claiming to know anything about video production, filming etc just yet.. but hopefully over the next year or so inbetween doing normal stills photography, [...]

RidleyandGiles.com : Launching new stock photography website

I have been taking stock photography for the last few years, and have always just had it represented by Alamy Ltd, the largest stock photography agency in the world and have had very good results so far. Over the last year, I have spent quite a lot of time photographing with a good friend, Will [...]

In the hands of an botanical expert…

A close up of my good friend Will’s hands, a professional gardener extraordinaiire – after looking at pollen in the garden. The hands tell it all.

Droplet of water on Arundo Donax

Photography for Radio Norfolk at the Exotic Garden

Just a quick post, a few weeks ago I took a few photographs for local radio station Radio Norfolk, I supplied them a number of photo’s for the Radio Norfolk feature that was taking place in Will Giles’s Exotic Garden on the 15th of July by Karen Buchanan .
It was a hippy themed event, at [...]

Photograph of a Solanum quitoense with the 24-70L 2.8

I’ve been spending a lot of time recently with one of my good friends Will Giles, he has a beautiful garden which is open to the public on Sundays throughout the summer in Norwich called the Exotic Garden, which is most amazing garden I have ever been to, I could talk about for hours! If [...]