We just finished a very fun few days of shooting. First we had feisty Faye Taylor visit us then a return visit of the gorgeous Penny Lee. Here’s a few sample shots and video grabs hot off the camera.

Disappointingly, Dave the Hasselblad decided to go on strike towards the end of the day shooting with Faye (his shutter release button stopped focussing, then stopped working entirely). Another rest cure in sunny Elstree is in his future I think. So we boldly carried on shooting with the backup Canon 7D, a camera which I’ve never really grown to love but which really saved my bacon this time! 🙂

I’ve just sold the last two old Panasonic video cameras on eBay and am wonderful what to buy next. Very, very tempted by a gimbal rig for video. Also tempted by a Panasonic GH4, mostly for video but also as a lightweight backup stills camera.

Shooting with the 7D again has certainly made me appreciate the need for a backup stills camera, and also reminded me how flexible a photographic tool something like a 7D plus 18-135 mm STM IS lens is for general shooting.

I love the images from the Hasselblad and the RED, but they are specialist tools. There’s a lot to be said for owning one camera which you can just turn on and shoot in almost any conditions shy of total darkness and get SOMETHING useable out…

Instead of buying a super-sexu new anything, what I actually bought was £2400 worth of Synology boxes and 4 TB hard drives, because Dave and Lady Scarlet have filled up my current 32 TB of data store already. This is not a very exciting thing to have to buy!

Hywel.

Oh and in case you missed them here are some shots of Hannah Claydon from last week:

Fortunately (given that I’ve now filled up all my 32 TB of data store!) we now have a break from shooting for a few weeks, which will give us time to prep the photos and edit the videos. So RE and SS members will be seeing the results very soon!