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Posted on October 31, 2009
You can actually see the rain frozen in the pictures like fine snow – but kids don’t care about that and the children in this shoot had a wonderful time (actually I did too). Location – the beach between the East Quay and the Continental Hotel, Whitstable, Kent. Although based as a portrait photographer in Kent I also cover weddings and commercial photography across the UK. If you would like to know more do take a look at either www.timstubbings.co.uk or timstubbingsphotography.com
Posted on October 31, 2009
This is the final set of pictures for Mercery Lane both for the Kent Design Awards nomination and also for the website and brochure…and yes, it was sunshine and showers and me and my cameras did get wet! Although based as a photographer in Kent, I cover corporate and commercial photography work across the UK. This is not just architectural and includes corporate portraits, annual reports, conferences and editorial. If you would like to know more do take a look at either www.timstubbings.co.uk or timstubbingsphotography.com
Posted on October 29, 2009
Monday was perfect shooting weather for running an urban portrait workshop on behalf of Canon UK for one of their competition winners. We were near to London Bridge and has the cover of railway arches, the reflective surfaces or nearby office buildings and even a small amount of greenery! With 3 models, a hair stylist, make up artists and an assistant we created a number of location portrait setups to allow the winner to put his Canon 1000D to good use.
We started off with natural light and then moving onto off-camera flash (Canon 580EX II plus ST-E2 trigger). Do get in touch if you would like to know more about coming on a workshop or buying a voucher for friends and family. Although based as a photographer in Kent I cover weddings, portrait and commercial photography across the UK (please see www.timstubbings.co.uk or timstubbingsphotography.com).
Posted on October 22, 2009
Martyn has just completed a wonderful book for your people – A Young Person’s Guide to Canterbury. Martyn is director of Impact PR and produced the guide with support from Whitefriars in Canterbury. For every book sold £1.00 goes to Demelza House hospice.
Photo training / camera skills bit – off camera flash, killing off the ambient with a higher than metered shutter speed. Mono pod for natural light shots! Although based as a photographer in Kent I cover weddings and portrait and commercial work across the UK including training in photography. If you would like to know more do take a look at either www.timstubbings.co.uk or timstubbingsphotography.com
Posted on October 19, 2009
I’ve uploaded some images taken today at one of the photography workshops at Canterbury Christchurch (Jason Dodd and I are guest lecturers on the degree course there). Today we spent some time with the students on natural light shots. The images below are straight out of my 1D2n, 400 ISO mainly F4 or 5.6 at 1/200 or 1/250th. The indoor pictures are 800 iso F4 1/15 or 1/20.
The conditions were grey and overcast and the background “busy” – benches, people, architecture and I wanted to show how you can get a variety of pictures quickly from one location by changing your viewpoint.
F4 is a great working aperture for shallow depth of field and getting both of a subject’s eyes in focus. By looking for plain backgrounds and shooting a little into the light, you can seek out opportunities where you know that a back-lit subject with 1-2 stops difference between it and the model’s face means that when we expose for the face, the background will be vibrant.
For a couple of images I was able to place the model deliberately under a doorway canopy so that the dominant light source is forced into the face, not down from above (which causes what I call “panda” eyes).
The indoor pictures – in absence of a monopod – were on a tripod with the legs closed up, again seeking out a backlit area where the back light was stronger than the side light. This made for a great place – a potentially boring stairwell – to take some shots.
Do get in touch if you’d like to come on a portrait or wedding photography course.
Posted on October 3, 2009
I’ve covered this event for the last 3 years and for the first time said “ok” to the offer from the cider makers to try what was meant to be a mild refreshing drink…except that is was blended with whiskey and matured in oak barrels. Thankfully the day’s pictures were already in the can (and there’s only so much that autofocus can do…) Although based as a photographer in Kent I cover corporat and commercial work across the UK. If you would like to know more do take a look at either www.timstubbings.co.uk or timstubbingsphotography.com
Posted on October 3, 2009
Nice to see Geoff Clarke on form as the host for this year’s awards at Port Lympne and there should be a good spread of pictures coming up in Kent Life.
Posted on October 3, 2009
I spent 2 half-days up at Erith school – making the most of the weather to get bright looking exteriors. The interior shots almost all required mobile flashes (speedlites) with radio triggers to boost the available light.
Posted on October 3, 2009
Kingswood are a national adventure and activity centre company and have added Grosvenor Hall to their portfolio. Formerly a police training centre it is a vast site and hey asked me to get some up to date pictures for them as they commence their refit.
Training / techie note: harsh sunlight produces shadows which is not always great if you’re shooting in the afternoon and the sun is lower in the sky at the time of year. Framing of the sky with trees helps balance out the exposure (and some bracketing of shots – 1 over, 1 under – meant that I could composite the swimming pool shot.
