Today was another step forward in our preparations for a busy 2016.
Today Janette and I have extended the studio area length by two feet and extended the chroma key backdrop right across the room – now 12 ft wide – to allow us to accommodate larger groups – perhaps up to 8 or ten adults for group portraits – so our 2016 Groupon offerings will include Family Portraits as well as babies. 
We look forward to welcoming you and your family in 2016!
Don’t forget to place your vote in November’s competition! 5 winners will each receive a £100 Mothercare Voucher and 5 runners-up will also receive prize from SwimKidz!
Vote now at bit.ly/nov15bom
Excitement! Just in time for the Christmas Gift Season, Bob has introduced a series of Black and White Giclee Prints, high quality, Black and White Images featuring iconic but lesser known Irish Scenes and Landscapes – available as Mounted Prints – ideal for shipping abroad – or as Framed Prints.
Limited Editions – there are only 120 of each of these prints available for sale, each one signed, numbered and dated by the photographer. Check out the order page here:
http://www.BobMcEvoy.co.uk/irish-art-limited-edition-prints/
Someone once told me that when a baby turns two that marks the beginning of the ‘terrible twos’ – when all restraints are off, and baby does what she likes, when she likes, and learns to complain loudly when he or she doesn’t get her own way! But not always! Today for my single family portrait photography session at Dundonald, (I was at a wedding this afternoon) I had this really delightful little two-year old, whose activities were more than enough to provide fun for the camera! Including a great desire to carry a chair around with her! (A small Ikea child’s chair – I hasten to add!)
Here she is on the sheepskin rug in the studio..
Shot in the studio, Nikon D700, f/11@1/125th Sec on ISO200
An advantage of digital photography is the spontaneity that it allows, which makes family portrait photography so much fun,and so full of unexpected opportunities. One of yesterday’s family photo sessions at Dundonald featured a little girl who reached upwards, just as the camera was on her. What a great pose – totally unplanned, and so a great opportunity to show her reaching for the moon!
Shot on the Nikon D700, ISO200, f/10 at 1/125th sec, with studio lighting, against Chromakey ‘Greenscreen’ Backdrop.
Playing with the Bronica after a Photoshoot today and I decided to do a ‘selfie’. Why not? Everyone else is doing it! So I propped the iPhone on a proper prop, and popped the camera thingy with a 10 second delay to allow me to pop back into position. 
Chloe, our 5 year old granddaughter, came in from the garage clutching a little box, filled with interesting little flat plate-like things, asking Janette if it was ok to play with them. It wasn’t! It was a box of Kodachrome slide ‘positives’ shot in 1990. In those days I was still making photographs with the Nikon FM2, no autofocus, no programmes, no auto-exposure, just a classy camera that gave the photographer complete control over the image.
So I took the slides, scanned them with the Epson Perfection V500 photo-scanner, imported them to Photoshop, and of course, unsaturated them to make some nice black and white images. This selection of them is a panel of shots I made in Co. Cork, when we were on holiday there in 1990.
Some ‘sepia’ type effects applied in three of them, to create a ‘vintage’ look.
Everyone knows that elephants never forget, so when Tembo our baby elephant chum had a go at a more traditional way of making photographs, he declared that it was no problem at all – but he’s not as smart as he looks – he forgot to remove the film slide! Continue reading #Tembo meets #Bronica!
A visit to Newcastle on a wild, wet, windy Tuesday, and an opportunity to capture some images with the iPhone. I was fascinated with the tumult of the sea at the mouth of the Shimna River, so I opened the ‘Hueless App’ and quick iPhone snap or two later…
Go on, use your iPhone camera, and record life as it happens.
With the increase in iPhone photography (and of course there are other similar brands of smartphone) and with photographers starting to take iPhone photography seriously as an image medium, new apps to help the photographer improve there images are appearing all the time.
One of the real bug-bears with the iPhone camera is its lack of depth of field capability. The small size of the lense and its proximity to the sensor makes optical depth of field impossible, (at least just now, who knows what lies ahead). So it was only a matter of time before an app appeared to produce a depth of field effect using digital manipulation in post-capture processing. The app is AfterFocus, and it’s available now in the App Store for 79p. Continue reading Depth of Field on an iPhone?
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