Autumn colours at JCB

Here are a few images from a recent walk around the JCB testing site by Alton Towers, the colours of the trees were pretty spectacular, I think that they will be on their way out very soon with the cold, wind and rain we've had the last couple of days!.
Nikon D800, 24-70mm lens, f11 various speeds, panos stitched in Adobe Camera Raw.

Springer Spaniel Commission

I had to photograph a couple of springer spaniels for a Christmas present the other week, they were looking at getting something a bit different in the shots, although the shoot was mid morning and out on the fields.
I decided to take my Lencarta portable battery pack and a couple of gridded spots so I could pin point the light on the dogs.
My set up was to put the camera into manual mode, place the dogs with some bushes in the background that were in the shade and place the dogs in the shade too.
I shot at f11, iso 100 and 1/500sec, using my pocket wizards to trigger the light allowed me to have such a high shutter speed and darken the ambient light.
Heres some of the images from the day.

Photographing Locals

Since moving to Waterhouses we have met some great people and I decided to start a personal project to photograph some of the characters and the new friends we have made.

I always like to do a personal project with my photography, this allows me to shoot what and how I want to rather having the sometimes constraints from my clients, this project is on going and lots more people to add, the end result will be an exhibition in the village hall for all the villages to come along and see.

I will add images to this project as I goes along, these are the photos so far.

Beautiful Autumn Colours

I went for a wander around Lamaload Reservoir in Cheshire yesterday afternoon. After passing by the other afternoon on the way to a job I thought it would make for some really nice photos as the colours were looking great.
So once Nicki came back from work we set off in the car and got to this location in about 40 mins from home, we were lucky because the sun had decided to go behind a large bank of clouds on the way over, but by the time we got there and grabbed my tripod and camera it started to appear once again and was in full shine when we got to a good location to take a few shots.
I set the camera to f11 and used a hyperfocal distance on my 24-70mm lens (set in manual, no Auto focus) of 2.3 meters from my HD chart from the great David Taylor's book (Mastering Landscape Photography) this ensured that everything would be in focus and took a few shots, one of them a pano which I stitched together in ACR.

Nicki making friends!