Harrogate Photographic Society Projected Digital Image Competition - Portrait Winner

Jake Attree in his studio in Dean Clough Halifax 2017

I entered this image in the Harrogate Photographic Society Projected Digital Image Competition in the Portrait category.


The independent judge Andrew Linscott, a Northallerton based professional photographer, chose this image as the winning entry.


I wasn't at the judging but by all accounts Andrew was very complimentary about the image.


I took this during a visit to Jake's old studio in Dean Clough in Halifax in 2017. I used the Fuji X-Pro1 with Fujinon 56mm f1.2 lens, I've since sold the Fuji as, good though the results were as evidenced above, I found it way too slow.

Tethered shooting with Canon 5DIV

Its been a while since I last blogged. I've not been around as basically I've not had much to say.
However, fired up by 2018 I decided to spend a cold wet Saturday in the Creative Cube trying the out the tethering with my Canon 5DIV.

I found tethered shooting to be simplicity itself.
I simply connected the 5DIV to my MacBook Pro with the supplied USB lead, switched the camera on and immediately Canon EOS Utility 3 launched and I selected Remote Shooting.
From here I could control the camera settings (changes were instantaneous) and enable Live View shooting.

I also had Canon DPP4 open looking into the folder the images were being saved in. 

I applied Digital Lens Optimisation in DPP4, as well as correction for distortion etc as I find DPP4 does this a little better than Lr lens correction, there is not much in it but to me the files from DPP4 look a little crisper.

Then within the DPP4 Tools menu I Transferred to Photoshop, saved as a psd file and adjusted the images to taste.

The subjects were lit with two Rotolight LED lights and I used my  Canon 100mm f2.8 Macro USM lens.

Ceramic art by Maggie Barnes Ceramics