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I’ve taken several shots that incorporated projected images, but these have always involved creating a transparency in advance as I used an old 35mm slide projector. With this shot I used a laptop and a digital projector, which allowed me to shoot the projected image on the spot and made it easy to re-shoot it to suit the final image. Thanks to Ellie for her patience as both model and projection screen.

This is long overdue, but I’ve just uploaded a fix to get DomianMirror working with WordPress 2.3. Thanks to SecondeVue for that. It’s currently just a new version of WP-DomainMirror.php, so you need to replace that one file and you should be back in business. The zip file was created on a Mac so Widows users will see some other files in there - these can be ignored. I’ll put together a full archive tomorrow.

Click the link above to download the file.

Gelid

I decided to try using white LEDs as a primary light source to create more of a contrast to my usual warm incandescent light. Chelsea Darling graciously agreed to be my experimental model, and we spent a couple of hours sticking them to her fingers to see what would happen. The light wasn’t nearly as harsh as I feared, and produced a wonderfully soft skin tone. More experimentation to come with this sort of lighting.

Corra

Corra Linn in infrared

Last weekend I went in search of landscapes with Ian and Sarah. This is usually a fruitless exercise as the weather and the fates always conspire against us - most effectively on the day we went to Bute to photograph a wrecked fishing boat. Not only did it rain solidly the entire day, but when we got there we discovered that the wreck had been removed a couple of months previously. Luckily we’re all boneheaded enough to not let a lack of success spoil a day out, so on Sunday we went to Corra Linn. Predictably, it started raining as soon as we got there, so we sat under an overhang until the sun came out. This was the result.

Here Be Dragons

This is Denise’s dragon - and as no self-respecting mythical serpent should be denied the ability to set things on fire, I decided to lightpaint in a little fiery breath. No models were singed in the making of this image…

My new book of lightpainted photographs, Flashlight, is now available from Blurb. You can find it here: Flashlight: Lightpainting and Long Exposure Photography.

What is lightpainting? It’s the art of lighting photographs with flashlights and other small, hand-held lights. If you’d like to give it a try you’ll find a tutorial here: Lightpainting Tutorial

I’ve just uploaded a beta of Wordpress Domain Mirror that supports theme switching, and a few other minor features an bug fixes.

Click the link above to go to the download page.