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Nov, 2017

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The street vendors were just killing time playing a game totally oblivious to myself walking about with the camera but the young boy couldn't tak

Every winter Edinburgh's Princess Street Gardens is turned onto a Winter Wonderland.

This old dog was walking down the Royal Mile in Edinburgh by himself a couple of tourists wanted a selfie with him but he couldn't care less.

Photo was taken early evening on a road trip last year in Scotland on the road to Skye, view is of the west end of Loch Garry.

A walk along the River Clyde in Glasgow just as the sun was going down behind me lit up the sky in front.

After spending the day at a photography seminar in Falkirk, Scotland, we decided to stay in the area and visited the Kelpies when they light up from t

Street performer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

A wee play in the studio with black mirrored glass

At the Edinburgh Fringe this year, one of the performers was promoting a play called Come to Daddy.

Blackpool hosts a world firework competition every Friday night during September, the stormy night contributed to the reflections on the beach, the im

a studio shoot with a 10months old child getting to taste lemons for the first time.

Studio Horror photoshoot Halloween this year

Image was created for a college class, was originally meant to be a B&W image with green eyes but I prefer the original colour image

HDR image from a family studio shoot last year.

At 3am you get the entrance to Edinburgh Castle all to your self.

Behind The Lens

Location

This photo was taken at the Beltane Fire Festival in Edinburgh on the 31st October 2017.

Time

The image was taken just at the end of the parade at 9:40pm, just as we had packed up thinking the best of the parade had passed, when all of a sudden these fire spinners taking up the rear of the parrade lit up their fire balls just as they headed towards us, I didn't have time to set up the tripod again so I used fill in flash to get the shot.

Lighting

Street lighting was poor in this part of the street so most of my images from that night were taken on a tripod.

Equipment

A canon 5DSr with a EF 24-105mm F4L IS lens, Metz flashgun.

Inspiration

We deliberately went to the darkest part of the street to get the best effect from the fire spinners, the first set of images were taken at 1 & 2sec exposure but they created to much motion blur, this image taken of the tripod was taken at 1/3sec exposure to get the motion just right with fill in flash to freeze the performers.

Editing

Photoshop CC to darken and crop the image.

In my camera bag

When doing street photography I only like to travel with my one go to lens, a Canon EF 24-105mm F4L IS lens along with my Canon 5DSr and a Metz 58 AF-2 flash.

Feedback

Shooting street performers usualy comes down to a lot of luck, being in the right place & watching the right performer at the right time and taking lots of images hoping to get a success rate of about 1 in 20, in my studio my ratio is more like 4 in 5 as we can always reshoot the 1 or 2 were not happy with, we don't get the same luxury to re shoot In the street, so if I get 5 good images out of a 100 photos I'm usually quite happy.

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