Portraiture
Hello, I hope that you have had a lovely weekend.
Today I wanted to share a couple of images taken from a GoPro Hero10.
Whilst out running the sky was looking incredible. I placed the GoPro onto a nearby fence and recorded a short video.
These were merely screen shots from the footage.
Sometimes it isn’t about the fanciest of cameras and pixel count.
Nice lighting trumps all those things.
Hello,
This is the platform medic.
In the UK oil and gas industry there is a requirement for all installations to have sufficient medical cover and provisions.
The offshore medics role -
Treat people working on an offshore oil or gas rig for any injuries or illnesses.
Provide medical care for anyone on the rig or platform who has an accident and make sure that people are fit and safe to work. The health, safety and welfare of all those working on the rig would be the medics responsibility. They also carry out administrative tasks.
Provide 24-hour medical care for the crew
Carry out routine health checks
Treat illnesses and minor wounds
Keep accurate medical records
Train other people on the rig in first aid
Order new supplies of medicines and equipment
Carry out health promotion activities
Advise on health and safety issues
Arrange for very ill people to be taken back to land for treatment
The medic advises the senior managers if they thought a person was not fit for work or might affect other people’s safety.
If someone had an injury or illness that you were not sure how to treat, they would phone the onshore company doctor for advice.
Today we meet, the small team involved in feeding and looking after all 80 workers, on a North Sea oil and gas platform.
These guys do a fantastic job, with such a small team in cleaning, preparing meals and trying to keep moral high for a large crew of guys. Who are working hard in all weathers, away from home for long periods, missing their families.
It is un-measurable their involvement, but any rig worker will tell you, that a clean accommodation and a good hearty meal, makes for a happy crew.
Roast beef, and Yorkshire puddings... must be Sunday!
The Petrofac O.I.M for the BP Miller decommissioning project.
The Offshore Installation Manager (OIM) is the most senior manager of an offshore platform operating on the UKCS.
Many offshore operators have adopted this UK offshore management model and title and applied it to their operations in all global regions irrespective of the local regulations in force.
In the UK the individual must be officially registered as an OIM with the Offshore Safety Division of the Health and Safety Executive and the OIM is responsible for the health, welfare and safety of the personnel on board the installation, whether a drilling rig, production platform or a support vessel (e.g. a flotel).
Nikon D800 f10 1/125th ISO 100
Good morning, hope that you had a good weekend.
This was the set up, pretty straight forward really. Two light sources, both camera left. The elinchrom ranger in a large octa positioned in front of myself, so the light was feathered and soft.
with a bare elinchrom quadra behind back lighting the snow.
With a snow machine you can see on the left of the image.
The image was shot with grey paper background intentionally to aid in the photoshop work afterwards.
Image set up and execution around 45 mins, and all photoshop work an hour and half.
Some times these images can take a lot more, but having the final goal in your mind and through experience you can achieve that goal much quicker and have a nicer final product.
Nikon D800 f10 1/125th ISO 100
Here are some images of one of my best mates with his beloved bike.
Last sunday i tried out my first studio shoot, and i thought it was fantastic.
My good friends over at
let me hire out their studio for the day.
I had a plan of what i was wanting to achieve before i arrived, and was more then happy with the results.
For a living Oliver is an estate agent. I wanted to do some images of him in his work wear, and then some fun images. The goal was to show businesses that with a little thought you can spruce up your websites with some professional looking images of the employees, and with most businesses these days having facebook pages, why not have some fun images of the work force?.
I have met up with, a couple of times now the ladies who are running the DLDD campaign, and what a fantastic job they are doing for the town.
We met with the intention for a couple of promotional shots that they can use, but as you can see the weather wasnt playing ball and so we will meet again soon.
Also keep watching as when i can ill be attending some of the functions that they are doing, and so ill post images of the great things happending in Dunstable in the future.
A couple of short
explaining their campaign.
Check out their
to see the latest news in Dunstable.
The Ladies Bio...
Sharon and Sharon are two ladies who want to help Dunstable to become the lovely market town it once was, please give us your views and ideas. Together we can make a difference. Long Live Dunstable!
"Tell your friends and spread the word, Dunstable must be heard.Long Live Dunstable can't be wrong,the supporters are growing forever strong. We believe in Dunstable and the support that you give, so let's all make Dunstable,the best place to live!"
We are now as of 15th December 2010 two ladies who want to help Dunstable to become the lovely market town it once was, please give us your views and ideas.
LLD
Long Live Dunstable (Don't Let Dunstable Die) was established last year by two woman to help raise the profile of our Historic town of Dunstable and to keep the supporting public informed as to what is happening as best we can. We have no businesses in Dunstable or political agendas just a passion to see our town great again. Thank you for your continued support.
"Tell your friends and spread the word, Dunstable must be heard. Long Live Dunstable can't be wrong,The supporters are growing forever strong. We believe in Dunstable and the support that you give, So let's all make Dunstable, the best place to live!
"LONG LIVE DUNSTABLE!"
I was asked recently to do some portraiture head shots and promo shots for a fantastic stage / screen writer actress Jessica Luxembourg.
With having a little bit of notice with this shoot, i wanted to set it, in a relevant location.
I came up with the idea of having books in the back ground and so set about trying to find a willing bookshop.
I thought the best places to try would be small independently run stores, and so the search began...
They are becoming harder and harder to find. Even this store will be closed at the end of the month.
I think due to the Internet, people do not seem to visit these places any more. Even i am very guilty of this. As it is far to easy to order books from say Amazon or if going to a store we head to Waterstones as they have a huge collection of items. It is a great shame with the changing world the "small business" has an almost impossible fight to remain in the game.
This was shot in the book castle over in Dunstable,
A big thanks to the ladies who run the shop, They were great and very friendly, with out their help i do not think i would of been able to achieve my goal and so would of had to resort with another back drop.
Jessica Luxembourg is an award-winning writer
(International Student Playscript Competition, Arc Productions sponsorship, Time Out DVious Shorts Award)
Whose work has been performed at venues including the Hackney Empire,
the Soho Theatre and the Pleasance Courtyard.
Her short film "Phil's Job" was produced by Blaze, The Trail with Nick Rowe (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels)
in the title role and screened at the Cannes, Melbourne and Raindance film festivals. Jessica is a graduate of the MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, and of Cambridge University.
Jessica's plays include:
Denver, Contact Theatre, Manchester (2006);
Babel Junction, Hackney Empire (2006);
The Devil's Own Goldfish Scam, Soho Theatre (2003);
Insane Jane, Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh, transferred to Soho Theatre (2003);
Reflecting Flesh, UEA Studio Theatre (2001);
Losing Track, UEA Studio Theatre (2001);
and Craze, UEA Studio Theatre (2000).
Her short films include: Phil's Job, Cannes, Raindance and Melbourne film festivals (2001).
Good friends of mine Xav and Corinne wanted some pictures taking of themselves.
Corinne is a singer/song writer. Her personal site is here and goes under the name Vanessa René
" and so want a promo pic, where as Xav loves his bike and so wanted one with his beloved triumph bike...
The Bike picture, i was trying again with the flash at sunset theme i like. This has worked better then the car one i have previously done.
Once again the TTL mode is letting me down. It has made me bite the bullet and im saving for some pocket wizard flash syncs. With syncs you can be so much more creative too, rather then just placing the flashes where they can see one another.
Here are my 2 favourite images from the day.
