Monthly Archives: February 2009

Let’s hear it for sellotape

Let’s hear it for sellotape Originally uploaded by kyber I connected with a new model through Purestorm and one of the things she really wanted to to do was to reproduce the iconic “American Beauty” style rose petals shot. Not something we had tried before, but we were happy to give it a go. We …

22 February 2009 – 09:09 | By admin | Posted in Photography | Tagged , | View Comments

Sellotape

We did a model shoot a while back where the model wanted to appear with lots of rose petals. We had a couple of thousand but could have done more. The biggest challenge though was fixing the petals. We should have got some toupe-tape in but had forgotten to do so. We resorted to sellotape …

21 February 2009 – 18:06 | By admin | Posted in photoblog | View Comments

DSLR v Compact Camera

My wife attended a family gathering recently that I was unable to join because of work commitments. Photography came up as a topic apparently and she felt that DSLRs did n0t get a fair hearing so I sent an email off to the family member who way weighing up the pro and cons of the various options. An edited version follows.

19 February 2009 – 15:41 | By admin | Posted in Photography, featured | Tagged , , , , | View Comments

A better email service

I am a happy customer of fastmail.fm as the hoster of my email for many domains. It took me a while to find them, but has made cyber-life a lot easier.

18 February 2009 – 17:45 | By kyber | Posted in Technology | Tagged , , , , , | View Comments

Ever wanted to find ebay stuff close to you

Ever wanted to search for something on ebay that was near enough to pick up rather than going through the post (especially if you are after a heavy item like a bike or a lawnmower). I have found the answer.

14 February 2009 – 17:53 | By kyber | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | View Comments

Yet another snowy day

I suspect everyone in the UK had some kind of snow story over the last week. I am pleased to report that nothing bad happened to me.

7 February 2009 – 18:13 | By kyber | Posted in Family Life, Work | Tagged , , , | View Comments

A photo story

We had lined up a different kind of photoshoot to the usual modelling and portraiture work we do. Namely, we were going to attempt to tell a story. I had been off sick for a couple of days so was not sure that I was going to be well enough to go ahead with the …

1 February 2009 – 20:58 | By admin | Posted in Health, Photography | Tagged , , , | View Comments