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I recently attended the Advanced Studio Lighting course run by the London Photographic Meetup Group. It was held at the Tabernacle in London and was a three hour course with one model and six photographers. It was a great learning experience for me, because the approach was a mixture of practical and theory. We were shown the effects that we needed to achieve, and then worked in a group, with guidance to set-up the lighting to match.

I, and several other members of the LP3 meetup group met in Putney to watch the 158th Xchanging Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge Universities.

We walked along the south-bank of the Thames until we found a likely spot, just before the bend in the river and well serviced by beer.

A few quick images I did today with a manual cable release, tripod and single studio light with soft-box. I wanted a couple of more formal self portrait shots for use on things like Linkedin, and figured I'd dust off the studio equipment...

A very simple set of images I took the other evening once the sun went down in London of the Thames and St. Pauls.

I recently picked up the Canon Powershot G11 second-hand. Don't get me wrong, I love my 1D MkIII, its a brilliant camera, but it is something of a brick. It is perfect for shoots, for gigs, for taking sweeping landscapes from the foothills of the Himalayas, but its something of a burden to carry around on a casual walk to the park or every day on the tube to work.