chris pook

Hi Erik, great to chat, long time!  You are right, focus is not easy!  When shooting my nephew he was in and out of focus, just standing in one spot, as he swayed backwards and forwards to the music.  I needed more light, and to close down a bit, but was shooting with the modelling light on my Elinchrom Ranger.  Not bad, but not exactly Hol…[Read more]

Hi, and thanks.  🙂  Yeah, I enjoyed making the second one.  I also enjoyed making the first, but not in the same way.  I’d offered Nick a shoot for some time, and when he came back with this piece I wasn’t in a rush to shoot it.  I am glad I did though.  His agent loved it, and that made us both happy.  And I got to practice, and was conten…[Read more]

You know, it isn’t that complex to make fairly simple stuff – although I’m coming at it with the clarity only an amateur can achieve, via a complete absence of knowledge!  Erik would be the man!

I’m thinking I should trade in my BMPCC?  😉

(I really need to sell that, I have never really got on well with it – too much time needed in post colour correcting, for which I have no skill or patience to learn!)

not sure this counts, but it was my 26th Wedding Anniversary last week, so something from long long ago;

Daniel; Went to see my Dad last week.  My nephew was there.  He’s a very good guitarist.  We shot some video and some stills, as I has the gear in the back of my car from a weekend shoot;

Hey, thank you!  It was great to see it in print, they did a cracking job of the layout and so on.  I loved doing the trip and writing up about it afterwards.  Got to go get the bike back at some stage, I wonder if they will run the return trip.  🙂

Good to see everyone here well and the forum busy.  I’ve dropped out a bit, just trying to focu…[Read more]

Daniel, the reluctant front man;

And hi everyone, still alive!  🙂

Aah, see so many reviewsI thought it must be in the wild!

That’s awesome!

I’d run!

Royal Dutch Shell were my key client for 4 years, and I still speak not a word… What is he saying? Nothing particularly photographic by the looks of it!

I’m glad you were there! 🙂

So, lockdown life continues. Can’t complain really, it is not as if we are being asked to do anything actively, unlike the Doctors and Nurses on the front line. Here in the UK the PM has emerged from hospital after what has been billed as a bout of Corona Virus, and is now recovering at home. The conspiracy theorists are already hard at work,…[Read more]

Hang on in there!

Hi Leanne,
I don’t think we have actually planted them yet. Clare is waiting for a planter to come before she puts them in. (Like a mini-green house affair). Rosemary, Parsley, Coriander, Basil and Chives were the herbs. They were just for fun really, to fill our the presents I bought for her birthday at the end of last month. All the same,…[Read more]

I may have missed it, but did you pick up an new XT4? My U.S. Trip was cancelled, obviously, so I have to wait!