It’s hot a whole lot different to any other Eddie photo but I love this one because the lighting somehow seems perfect, and depth is great and it looks somehow soft and pleasant in a way I can’t even explain.

This was taken in Minehead, Somerset… I believe.  Anypoop, it was taken through the glass of a shop window, there’s a trick to this, you have to have the lens flush with the glass so that no light gets between the glass and the lens, but you have to be careful not to bang it so that everyone in the shop turns round and go all hey! on yer.   Dunno what this model is mind, it looks like a cross between a zeppelin and a bi-plane.  Who knows.

This was taken in Abersoch in Wales.  Lovely lovely place, and somehow the sun always shines there.  Anypoop, I just kinda like this photo ‘cos the boat was freaking bizarre looking and the kid I guess helps the composition?  Dunno mate.

Here’s the photo thursday taken with it, a strange miniature figurine. Scary.

I’ve been wanting the Olympus EX-25 for yonks and only just got around to nabbing one. Most of the fun with it isn’t with the images but the bonkers-ness. There are many trade-offs to using an extension tube rather than forking out for a dedicated Macro Lens. You lose Auto-Focus, which is understandable because I doubt the camera would be able to cope with how freaking sensitive the focusing is with this thing on. Just spinning the focus ring what must be a nano-metre goes right through unfocused to focused and back to un-focused so much you can’t even tell what it is! It also requires massive amounts of light, with this thing on the DoF is incredibly shallow, you need to crank up the F.Stop to the max (to the smallest aperture).  Couple that with the loss of light inherent in the extension tube and even in daylight you may end up with just a photo of black.  Therefore I’ve found I need the big ol flash gun mounted at all times.

Another thing that is really difficult to get your head around is what the zoom ring does, it kinda seems inverted somehow. For instance at say 100mm you can be a distance from the object that you might expect from the macro mode of a compact camera. At say 30mm you can get so close to the object that you risk bashing the glass of your lens into it, at 14mm (the widest my standard lens goes) you can’t get close enough, the object would have to somehow merge into the lens like some strange atomic gloop.

Here, is the box to an xbox game, I’ve taken the box with a lens without the extension tube so you can see the whole thing. And then I’ve take it with the tube attach to show how close you can get. Pretty close eh?

This week it’s Cliff’s Cabs. Aaah, good ol’ Cllff’s Cabs. If you’re ever stranded down in Watchet, Somerset get on the blower and give Cliff a try, he’ll whisk you off like a princess.  E-300 with Sigma 30mm f/1.4 lens.

I like to think that this chap playing the.. um clarinet? Is probably jesus himself!

This was one of the first test photo’s I made when I got a fast prime.  It’s of a model mini cooper in the living room.  I was pleased with the composition as it kinda looks like the mini is about to drive off, and the big low depth of field makes the mini pop out of the image quite well.

This is a coastal shot from Somerset. Well I say somerset, because it was a Somerset holiday, but I think this might actually be devon, um, and I’m forgotten what the town is called. I know it was flooded once….

I created this to be our family Christmas card for the year that has just passed. It was a nightmare to photograph. The fake snow is polystyrene packaging crumbled up. Oh and when they say never work with children and animals they are speaking the truth. In the end I gave up trying to photograph them both together I ended up doing Eddie afterwards and photoshopping him in.

More photoshopping was done to add bloominess style and darken the background to make it feel moor outdoorsy in a way.