Who Stole the Light?

Loch Fyne

Calum — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:14:03 +0000

Today we drove up the West side of Loch Lomond, across to Arrochar at the head of Loch Long and then on over the Rest and be Thankful to Loch Fyne. The weather was dry but extremely cold, much more so than on Rannoch Moor yesterday, but there was high level blanket cloud cover with no gaps for the sun to shine through. This leaves colours flat and uninteresting on the whole and you can pretty much forget capturing wide vistas with snowy mountains against bright grey clouds!

I’ve got a couple of reflection based images that hold promise, but need some effort put into processing them carefully. For now, I’ve done a very quick B&W conversion on one and left the other unedited.

Tomorrow, I rest. No more driving for several hours to find myself swearing at the sky on a regular basis for a while yet.

Rannoch Moor and Glen Etive

Calum — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:57:54 +0000

Yesterday I spent the day doing photography stuffies through Rannoch Moor and Glen Etive in the Highlands of Scotland (right beside Glencoe, if that helps you pinpoint the location). The weather was variable to say the least, with several experiences of finding a wonderfully lit spot, stopping the car, setting up cameras and discovering low cloud had obscured everything more than a few dozen metres away. Yet we persevered and I managed to grab a number of images I’m happy with. Here are a few samples with no editing at all yet.

Now we’re off to the area around Arrochar, Cairndow and Inveraray. Let’s see what the light does today. I wish the clouds would stop stealing the light from me!

The Alcoholic Koala

Calum — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:18:19 +0000

My mind comes up with some fairly odd things to photograph – this set is actually pretty normal by my standards. The idea came to me a year ago while I was drinking some whisky and I’ve slowly developed it in my head until I finally got around to setting it up a couple of weeks ago.

The premise is simple, take a fairly standard product setup and play with it. So the first photograph of the triptych is a straight forward photograph of the three miniature Glenfiddich boxes. By the time I was ready to take the second photograph of the sequence, this cheeky little koala had wandered onto the scene and started drinking the whisky with a straw! Needless to say, he worked right through all three bottles before sauntering off just as I was ready to capture the final image. Shortly after, he fell over and passed out and I can’t tell you how bad his hangover was when he woke up.

Hello people with interest in photography!

Calum — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:22:32 +0000

I’ve run a photography blog in the past, but I limited the posts to photography sessions I carried out in my own time and ignored anything I did for clients, what I was doing regarding my business itself and what I do relating to photography in other areas. As a result it was somewhat sparse and while it received some good followers I lost the impetus to maintain it after a few months. Let’s see if I can do a little better this time!

I certainly intend to continue blogging about photography sessions I carry out in my own time but I also plan to add posts on some of the client work I do, general news relating to my business that doesn’t belong on the core website and a few other areas including information on camera I buy to add to my (brand new, absolutely tiny and entirely private) camera museum. More of a shelf than a museum at present. Well, really just one small end of a shelf for now. I plan on changing that over the next few months and years.

Bear with me while I slowly add posts over the next few weeks as the blog will be as sparse as my camera museum initially. With an expanded remit, I’m confident the blog will continue this time.