Finally managed to find a couple who were willing participants to allow me to take some pre-wedding shots for my ever so slow growing portfolio.

Hit up a time for Abby and Stephen's shoot, once time and date were arranged we gambled on the weather and headed down south. The weather forecast was not the best so we took advantage of the short burst of sun light ... and all i can say is the people made the shots and the back ground came second. No wonder this couple found each other and will live happily ever after !

Without further or do here is Abby and Stephen

Called it a day and luckily enough the weather held off for the shoot.

The happy couple decided to take up an indoor shoot the following day, and packed my portable strobes (kung pow strobes aka Yong Nuo), to do a clean white seamless shoot. Abby and Stephen are mad footy fans and they decided to show their true colours !!!

That's a wrap. Congrats guys !!!

After watching Scott Kelby do his Audi R8 shoot, I had been itching to have a go at it. Needed to find a reasonable looking car that was clean and finally this weekend I had the chance to do it. The location was just in the backyard, so it wasn't the most ideal situation but it works. After all Kelby shot his high detail shots in the garage of the R8 owner.

Looking at Kelby's shoot he used a couple of strip lights. I managed to get a couple of slightly cheaper Westcott Apollo Strip Light softboxes from B&H earlier this year during my NYC visit. I teamed these up with my Yongnuo 560IIIs. I just used the diffusion panels that came with the strip lights. I do have the grids but I found the grids were (a) reducing a lot of the output from the speedlights hence I would need to bump up the power and chew up more battery and (b) in some shots the grid reflection was not so pretty so to speak. Camera of choice was the Fuji X Pro 1 with the 35mm f/1.4 lens. The X Pro 1 had recently been upgraded to 3.00 (haven't got around to doing 3.01) and I have to say the focus, with focus assist in the pitch black did quite well.

So ready to shoot... everything was made more exciting due to the freezing cold and deciding to shoot this in pitch black at night (not smart !!!).

For privacy reasons, I have blacked out the number plate, yes I know I should have just removed it.

Enjoy my cheap man's R8, Kelby replication shoot.