17th May

'60 IN THE CITY' CAMBRIDGE PART 32

Continuing my series of ’60 in the City’, photographing the wonderfully diverse people, activities and still life within 500 metres of the Market Square in central Cambridge, taken in an aggregate time of 60 minutes, using my Fuji X-T1 camera and 35mm lens.

This was a really bright sunny morning, with a Graduation Ceremony at the Senate House for St John's College, and opposite, a wedding at the beautiful Great St Mary's Church.


Cambridge Photo Walk 

The next Photo Walk is on Saturday 30th May. Spaces are limited, and people are already booking, so contact me now to reserve you space and avoid disappointment.

Cambridge has a wonderful diversity of residents, tourists from all around the world and of course the transient student population. They all mingle and interact with each other, with the street performers, and sit on walls and benches for a sandwich lunch. This is a great opportunity to capture some of these interactions and anticipate upcoming shots in an ever changing scene. There is usually only one chance for most of these types of photos before they’re gone forever.

Listen as I explain some of the history of the area, including some ghostly stories concerning a window that’s never closed, a bookshop and a rose. Discover and photograph a ‘Richardson Candle’. See and photograph the £1 million gold plated clock (and all the people photographing it!) and find out who gifted it to the University.

Learn what used to lay behind the 70s brutal architecture of Petty Cury and the Grand Arcade, and the best camera settings and how to anticipate when shooting on the street.

Shoot the moment amongst the throngs!

30th May

Click here to see photographs from the last Cambridge Photo Walk at the end of April.


Studio Lighting+Model Workshop

I’m facilitating a Studio Lighting+Model day at Lovephoto Studio, Newmarket, Suffolk on Sunday 28th June for a group of 6 photographers (only 1 space left!). The day will be run by studio owner Vic Chowan, and the first two hours will be spent going through theory and vocabulary of lighting covering, inverse square law, hard, soft and ratios.

He will also demonstrate classic portrait lighting patterns - Rembrandt, Butterfly, Clam-Shell, Loop, Short and Broad lighting. 

The last 3 to 4 hours will be spent shooting amazing model, Amber Tutton, in 4 different styles of lighting and he will explain in each set the theory and light pattern to be used.

Contact me if you’d like to fill the last Photographer space.

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