Well this weekend we were extremely lucky to be able to have a photoshoot with a local Indian girl who had recently returned from getting married in her home country.
Fortunately she had bought back to NZ her wedding outfit and we got to photograph her in it at our local park.
Pictures to follow 🙂
We’ve been trying a variety of different types of photography recently to try and expand our skill sets. So when we got the opportunity to go to the latest Southland Stags rugby match we jumped at the chance with camera in hand.
Here are a few of the shots Layton got from the Southand Stags vs Waikato game.
Free Photoshop and Photography Tutorials
This was the Video with the shot we were trying to emulate.
Following on from our night shoot experiments we took Maggie out again during the day to try to experiment balancing ambient light in bright daylight. Here are the results of our experiment.
While researching how to do this we came across a great tutorial from Phlearn – I’ve already posted a link to the tutorial in a separate post. We based our experiments on trying to emulate the shots created during the tutorial with the thought that once we worked out what we were doing we could use that knowledge in our own shoots down the track.
We followed this guide to light Maggie in the dayshoot
Basically it means you meter for the ambient light (or the environment) and use your flash to light the model.
Here is one of the images we took the other night while doing some experiments with lighting at night. Continue reading
So finally after weeks of piecing together our lighting kit we had our first strobist shoot the other night. It was a great experience and we learnt a lot along the way, one thing was to drag the shutter in order to get the ambient light to show up when using a flash to light our model.
Welcome to Findlater Photography. We’re a husband and wife team from Invercargill, New Zealand. We’ve been hobby photographers for the past 7 years and have recently made the leap into professional photography. Layton is the principal photographer currently using a Nikon D800, while Aileen is 2nd shoot/assistant/admin and is currently using a Nikon D90 but looking to upgrade to full frame shortly.
Layton specialises in Landscape Photography (either scenic or urban) while Aileen is more detail orientated preferring to shoot macros, close-ups or details rather than wide shots.
To date Layton’s photos have been used in commercial brochures and magazines, printed in a book, and used as stock photos in varying media. He has also sold a couple of pieces and done work exclusively on commission.
We decided to start this blog to not only share our images, but also to give them a bit of context and get some feedback. As you will see in upcoming posts we’re currently gathering a decent lighting kit and experimenting with strobist photography. So don’t be shy, leave comments and let us know how you think we’re going!
