Halifax from a Great Height

Halifax Panorama, originally uploaded by Hellbelly.

I've recently had the opportunity to take some photographs from one of the higher vantage points on Halifax, and thought it would be an ideal chance to try a panoramic shot.
Constructed from eight shots, composed vertically and stitched in Photoshop CS5.

More photos from high up here.

SNOW!!!!

Just a very quick shot (as it was freezing cold!). Just using a flash with a warm gel bounced off the most expensive flash modifier I own, which costs as much as a house!
(the front of my house).

:)

Bex

At the same time as I were shooting Fran, Emma and I were also shooting Bex.
We used pretty much the same lighting set ups on both models;

Clamshell lighting



And Ringflash

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And check out Bex's awesome side shaving!



Bex wasn't so used to being in front of the camera, so I used my patented "talk a lot of rubbish" technique and soon she was throwing shapes with the best of them.

And I still think she looks like Bjork :)

Francesca

Fran has modelled for Emma Carter (who was helping out on the shoot) before, but it's the first time I've photographed her and I certainly hope to work with her again.
First up we set up a 43" shoot thru brolly camera left and a bare flash to blow the background out to pure white.



Then we pulled out my (much underused) boom arm to use some clamshell lighting along with a silver reflector.



Finally we used the Rayflash and a bare wall for some ringflash shots.