DC Motor Show

As i expected the DC motor show was seriously lacking.
The US motor manufacturers had the lamest displays of outdated, old technology shite.
The best displays were the Japanese and eastern car companies showing off the latest hybrid technology, and a willingness to downsize vehicles without sacrificing style. Check out the fuel consumption on this Ford SUV!-looks like a barge too!

Studio portrait

Really neat when you're contacted by someone who has seen your work on your website and asks you to shoot their portrait. A huge amount of trust has been placed in your hands. You owe it to your sitter to give of your best. It also helps when your client is both gorgeous and intelligent-makes for a pleasant session, and produces some good portfolio images.

Corporate Functions are not that simple to shoot!

I've had a request to send some images from corporate functions that i've shot in the past. I poured over thousands of images from golf days to xmas parties, launches, team building week-ends-you name it! These images seem straight forward, but require a sense of timing and an intimate understanding of the workings of your camera. The goal posts are constantly shifting, and decisions have to be made in a hurry to get the shot. These are just a few-perhaps not even the best, but each image has a story, both personal and technical.

November Bike is a cool deal

Shot the built-up November bike for the website this morning. You've gotta see this baby under the lights-it's sweet! Perve away!
Tech details of the shoot: 3 Studio flash heads in  large strip softboxes as accent lights down the sides of the bike and above, and 1 head in a small square softbox as main light off to the right of camera. The accent lights are around 2 stops below the main light's intensity, since they can be seen in the gloss surface of the bike, and will blow out if they are too strong.
A second shot was done with a huge reflector on the ground in front of the bike. The 2 shots were combined in photoshop with some of the soft reflections brushed through a mask in layers.

So you think you've got what it takes to be a pro shooter!?

So, i get the call-he's from Pennsylvania-the company has these huge vacuum trucks that suck up any old shite, from toxic spills to slime at the bottom of a reservoir. They're doing a big clean up job on the roof of an embassy building here in the city. He wants a pic of his truck on site. No problem-oh yeah he forgot to tell me-it's at night, and I have no control of the way the truck is parked. Bloody thing is backed into a corner, up against a hedge with zero lighting going on-I have to use a 17mm lens to get it all in the frame, and crouch in a hedge with the tripod rammed up against a pole, and a stick in my ass. Oh, and by the way says the foreman on the site-you've gotta do it quick-you'll be in the way. F'k-here goes another day in the life of a rock star.

 Here's the scene as it looked when i arrived.

....and almost an hour later...

35 minutes later, and the lighting is all set up-i get ready to take the shot-the bastard gets in the cab and moves the friggin truck 2 yards forward. He refuses to give me 3 minutes to do the shot-i must start all over again. 15 minutes later, I get the shot-client reckons i'm a genius-I reckon that's why they pay me the big benjamins-oh yeah, right-did this for peanuts!

More Cyclocross Images

I was a pro shooter for many years, and stopped enjoying the cycling scene, but I'll be hanging around at the cyclocross circuits some more in the future-this is a great sport-something that is new to me. I took loads of images of the ladies race-just too lazy to process them all-if you think I got a pic of you-send me an e- mail with a description of your kit and bike, and i'll gladly e-mail you a hi-res shot-no charge, or you could simply steal the lo-res image off this site-not cool!
wayne@wayneswork.com

http://www.wayneswork.com/

The Capitol under moonlight

Doing a photo-shoot on a rooftop last night, and as I was leaving downtown Washington DC at around midnight-saw the moon poking it's way through the clouds. No ways you miss on a photo-opportunity like this! One thing i do feel about living in a foreign land-this is a really neat city.