STUDIO KIT- Harder than I thought

EVER WANTED TO BUY STUDIO LIGHTING?

THOUGHT TO YOURSELF, I CAN DO THAT - EASY!

THINK AGAIN!!!

I have just purchased a second hand Bowens Esprit 500 kit, It cost £500 so not back pocket change, it took a while to gather the money together, 

Around a year ago I started watching videos on #YouTube of professionals tutorials on lighting and creative portraits. I WATCHED A LOT! and it was every day. The more I watched the more I thought to myself, I want to do this- This is something I could see myself doing as a side job and with the hopes of making a little bit of money as well. 

I only got this kit yesterday-Friday 19.06.15. It is much harder than I thought, REALLY HARD! somehow I thought I would pick it up straight away and I would be advertising my services on my Facebook page in no time. THINK AGAIN LEWIS. 

I set the kit up in  my living room and sat my son down for a quick test shoot. All photos were blown out. or totally black, After messing with settings and power output on the lights I managed to get a couple of shots I was after....

I have included a mono conversion and colour image.

There far from great, very NOISY for a start and maybe over edited as I couldnt get the LOW KEY look to work as good.

Today I had another half and hour to try ad capture some images.....came up with these

 

BETTER/WORSE???? YOU DECIDE.

I CAN ONLY KEEP TRYING AND HOPEFULLY GET BETTER.

MAKE SURE YOU ARE MAKING THE RIGHT DECISION BEFORE SPENDING A LOT OF MONEY ON KIT. IT IS HARDER THAN IT LOOKS IN THE VIDEOS ECT. 

BELIEVE ME!!!!

KEEP A LOOK OUT FOR MY IMAGES   https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lewis-Brown-Photography/490331894349799?ref=hl

Changing Direction

I have been taking photos for around 4 years now, at the beginning of the year I started to loose interest in photography, I was trying to hard to sell photos and because of the very small amount of sales I was getting I got sick- To the point of hanging my camera up for a short while. 

Over the past few months I decided to pick my camera and concentrate on taking photos and enjoying the fun side of photography, going out exploring new places uploading to social media sites and forgetting about making money. I have found my love for photography again and found new friends to go out and shoot, 

THAT'S WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT ISN'T IT?

I have been out trying different styles of photography including URBEX-which shooting urban places, Minimalism and derelict locations.

1800s Murder house

Abandoned tile factory

Minimalism 

This isn't my favorite subject but I enjoy the company of walking around capturing these different images.

I have always had a great love for Black and White photography and I have decided to concentrate my time on photographing this brilliant subject in a different way. 

I downloaded a plugin for Lightroom call NixCollection which can be found here: https://www.google.com/nikcollection/ 

I use SILVER EFEX PRO 2 to edit my black and white images to give it a moody look, and I have created a new FACEBOOK PAGE: 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lewis-Brown-Moody-BnW/397232876965336?ref=hl

Here are some examples and unseen photos as I haven't uploaded these yet. ENJOY