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David Kittos is an amateur photographer who specialises in high speed photography, still life, product and commercial photography among other things.

For this workshop, we will learn the basic lighting techniques for shooting products including glassware, matte objects and electronic devices. There will be hands on shoot after the talk.

Some of the topics covered are :

- off camera flash basics

- light modifiers

-  lighting techniques & set-ups.

- equipment tips

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We will also have someone who will give a  demo on Pocket Wizards.

When: 27th February 2010

Time: 11AM

Where: Jacobs Digital Photography & Video

74 New Oxford Street
London
WC1A 1EU

Workshop Fee:  £25.00

You will be given an assignment based on what you’ve learned during the workshop. So please take notes and ask questions.  The best submitted assignment photo will receive an Ezybox Hotshoe  (or related product).

Assignment details will be given on the day.

Please note: There will be a limited number of seats available, booking is first come first serve basis.

Hello and Welcome dear friends! It is again time for another all night prowl in Paris, France This year’s itinerary as promised is already finished, you will need  the “guide book” which is printed by blurb and is included in the booking fee – I chose the black & white print so it is affordable. Check out the details below for more details….

When: 29th – 30th of May, 2010

Where: St Pancras International – EUROSTAR Terminal

Outbound time: 16:25 on the 29th from London

Return time: 9.13 on the 30th from Paris

Please note that you may choose to arrive earlier or later and just catch up with us along the way.

Cost: from £50 return trip

Itinerary: This year’s trip includes a stop to the Arc de Triomphe (group rate at 7€ pp),  stop Louvre (before it closes), riverside walk and sunrise at Trocadero.

Itinerary map, meeting point and food stops will be available on the guidebook.

3AM Food Stop: We will have PIZZA! on average, it is around €10 + drink.

Booking fee: £15.00 [+ shipping of £2 to cover for transaction fee and book group shipping]

This includes, metro tickets, arc de triomphe and guide book.

Please note:  The food allowance for our friends in Paris (or some of it) will be from my own pocket so a donation to help for this is very welcome).

Documentations:

Visitor information (pdf) Arc de Triomphe

One of the aims of the session will be to provide attendees with the inspiration to see the urban landscape in a new way in order to make more creative images.

Mysterious doorway by WPhoto

Topics discussed will include:
- A definition of abstract photography
- Basic building blocks for composing successful creative abstracts
- Tips for getting the shot – equipment and the importance of light

Later, you will be able to express your creativity by using London’s vibrant architectural backdrop as subject matter, followed by a review and critique.

This is a hands-on workshop, so please bring you camera and a couple of lenses with you.

When: January 30, 2010

Where: Jacobs Digital Photography & Video

74 New Oxford Street
London
WC1A 1EU

Workshop Fee: £10

Prize for best photo of the day:  Jacobs Gift Voucher

Please note: There will be a limited number of seats available, booking is first come first serve basis.

Registrations to this workshop is now closed.

5000+ Days by BPPA

To increase your chance of winning our prize, please bring your laptop (to edit your photo) and a USB key so we can easily transfer it to Edmund’s computer for viewing.

I would like to remind those who booked for portfolio review that I still have not received any thing from you. Please do send your zipped files or CD by the 22nd of November, you should have the details on where to send it on the e-mail I sent you a while ago.

Thank you and see you all next weekend!

Anyway, it was such a lovely day and an enjoyable walk, we we through the artists’ displays and manage to talk to some of them then we headed off to the restaurant for a meaty  Eat All You Can. Lunch at Rodizio Rico was really good and I know I should not say this but we stuffed ourselves full we had difficulty walking afterwards (sort of). We went to Kensington Gardens afterwards and met up a couple more people who went to the London Open House places.

Photos from other photographers who joined us.

My images are below, thank you for looking.

For experience, it was a first time for me to use the bus from the airport to Antibes where the hotel is. We also walked a lot.

And yay! I forgot how charming some old French ladies (on the bus) are and I am glad I do have a rejoinder to tell them when they get a tad nasty. Apart from that, everyone were very nice.

Below are some of my images from the trip…

Whenever the weather is clear I do try to get take a couple of photographs from the airplane window. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. Lucky on this trip, I got excellent shots from the window.

Lac de Ste Croix

We got to the hotel late, checked in and went to have a stroll and take low light photos. Using 50mm f1.4 lenses, we managed without tripod.

The Antibes Rallye was still going and we got to to shoot the racing cars parked for the night.

We got up really early to capture the lovely sunrise and I got to take long exposure shots with the see and the old town of Antibes.

The port of Antibes is lined with private yachts of all sizes!

We arrived in Monaco and we immediately took pictures! With all the wonderfully arranged lights, I played with the manual focus of the Sigma 50mm f1.4 lens and mostly took “bokeh” shots

The Monaco Kart Cup was on as well so half the time in Monaco went to shooting the race.

We did go to the Monaco Oceanographic Museum which is located at the seafront on which is known as Le Rocher or the Rock where the Palais is located.

The aquariums are excellent, clear and full of active fish. It was well lit so we did not encounter any problem while photographing them.

We went to Cannes and got some curious looks from the people around us since we were mostly taking photographs of the scene. However, I whipped out my Olympus 35-100mm f2.0 telephoto lens which looked really intimidating. With that I receive a couple of scowls.

And up to the time we were waiting to board out plane back to London, we still took photographs (in the airport).

Conclusion:
Overall it was an excellent trip and yes, I will do it again. And it will be around the same time of the year when the hotel cost is more affordable. There were a lot of photo opportunities and without being hassled by the authorities. Also, I must say that the food was great.

If you are thinking of joining us next year, keep an eye on the blog for updates. One thing for sure we will have is a car to drive around. A vehicle will enable us to visit St Paul de Vence, Eze Village and Nice.

I am so sorry you had to re-register/re- subscribe. I did not find a way to transfer your accounts.

Thank you for understanding!

G

This workshop is ideal for intermediate to adavanced photographers using digital or film.  Please bring your cameras.

When: 28/11/2009
Time: 11AM-4.30PM

Where:

Jacobs Digital Photography & Video

74 New Oxford Street
London
WC1A 1EU

Map

Cost: Introductory price of £15.00

Guest:
Edmond Terakopian started as a news photographer in 1989. Having worked up through the regional papers, he now supplies the national and international newspapers and magazines with images from the biggest stories in the UK and abroad. He has participated in several group exhibitions and has also been published in a number of books. Edmond’s main areas of interest are news, features, fashion, portraits and commercial photography. He has won four Kodak Press Awards, a M.I.L.K. award, the Prize of Prague and a Special Award from the Picture Editors’ Awards. In 2006 he added to his list of awards by being named the British Press Awards Photographer of the Year and also winning third place in the Spot News category of World Press Photo. His previous client list includes the biggest names in the industry, having regularly worked with Gamma, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Mirror, The Evening Standard, AFP and The Press Association. He is currently a London based stringer for AP, Polaris Images and TES. He has also been on the committee of the BPPA (British Press Photographers’ Association) for several years. To see his work, visit www.pix.org.uk

Portfolio Review:
If you would like to have your portfolio reviewed by our guest, you may also submit your images a week before the workshop. Images should be around 2000 pixels. Maximum number of shots should be 20. File names should be the person’s name, ie. Ghene Snowdon 01 and so on.

Portfolio review: £35

For a better quality workshop,  there is a limited number of seats available.

This is a 2-mile walk from start to finish from Clarendon Place to Queensway to Westbourne Grove and back. It will be slow paced to allow participants to compose their photographs and socialise. We will have late lunch at Rodizio Rico, an eat-all-you can Brazilian restaurant serving barbequed meat and delicious vegetarian option from £15.50 only!

Itinerary:

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If you would like to come and join us, please RSVP on Upcoming.

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