I recently purchased a set of macro extension tubes for my camera. I’ve been interested in macro photography for a while but I’ve never had a macro lens so I thought I’d give it a try!
I shot all of these images on my 5D MKII with my 50mm 1.4 lens at its maximum aperture. They [...]

This is the last post with the theme of square crops, off camera flash and vivid colours (for the moment!) A bunch of bananas in the kitchen, as you can see I placed the flashgun almost directly behind them. I used the flash in wide angle mode (14mm) on manual at 1/32 power and dialed in [...]

This is probably my favourite PhotoBlog post so far. It was very simple to create these images, just freeze the room with a touch of off-camera flash and give the camera a little twitch as you take the exposure. The flash freezes everything that isn’t emitting light and the light moves with the camera. I [...]

The next few shots have the same theme of square crops, off camera flash and vivid colours. This is the first in a series of 3 posts with this theme. I liked the lighting in the previous post so much that I’ve used it in most of the shots in this series using off camera [...]

The clean and bright lighting in this shot was created using a single off camera flash, which you can see in the background to the right hand side of this shot. The flash firing within the frame of the image created a slight lens flare on this photograph, I really love lens flare when used [...]

“Can ya guess what it is yet?” I’ve gone for kind of an abstract feel with these shots, all were lit using off camera flash triggered with ebay slaves. The middle one is my favourite as I really like the high key look of it. (It’s a washing machine!)