Happy Friday! Have a few links to get you through Friday afternoon: Photos that you can focus after taking them with the Lytro Light Field Camera Scott Bourne has published a free eBook called ‘Vision‘ – It’s no ‘Within The Frame‘ but there are some good tips and ideas to be had. You know I like to light things but nothing on this scale yet: Air-to-air flash photography! Coming soon: Strobist Bootcamp...

Ash Manton’s Type R Civic has been part of the UK modified car scene for several seasons and keeps coming back with a fresh look each year. It’s current stripped out, carbon clad, airbrushed look has just won it the cover feature in Max Power. As it’s had the Max photo shoot treatment, I wanted to try something different. Enter Georgia Graham, Ash’s girlfriend, showing that hell really does hath no fury like a woman...

Another weekend, another car show and this time it was USC (Ultimate Street Car) at Santa Pod. I wasn’t lucky enough to have any secluded barns to shoot in this time so it was a case of making the best of a bad lot. And at car shows, it’s a very bad lot – even when your subjects are the Sextons Direct / Ripraw girls! You’ve got cluttered backgrounds, harsh mid afternoon light and crowds. First of all, I toured Santa...

Another of my Adventures in Strobism, as originally posted on my Flickr photostream. Using info about creatively using a CTO gel on your flash by David Hobby aka The Strobist I decided to do a bit of Sunday morning experimentation. What you have here is the same shot twice. The left is daylight white balanced and the right WB is set to Tungsten. In the original shot the orange tinged flash (1.5CTO gel, 1/64 power, grid spot, camera right)...