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More from T In The Park 2008

Some more pics taken at this years T in the Park...........









Looking forward to seeing what the rest of the guys have to upload when they get round to it .....

T In The Park 2008

Hi All

Back from T In The Park 2008 slightly broken but ok had a great time and the highlights of the weekend after the 3 hour queing to get in shambles was Rage Against The Machine on the Saturday night and Seasick Steve on the Sunday lots of of other good performances but these two were the standouts

Had to post this pick of Grant while he was checking in with the missus (lol) the sign in the background says it all

Anyway loads more pics to work through and will post some more up when they are ready also they will be available as will others on www.grantdickson.com

ta ta for now


M

Corey rrraaaaarrrrr

Quick pic of Corey taken with the same settings as the previous picture of Zak

Cheesy Grin Zak !!

quick pic of Zak taken with my 50mm f/1.8 Nikon Lens flash mounted on camera for fill

This pic makes me laugh ....

Corey in Mono

Shot using off camera flash with one strobe to camera right at 1/2 power with blue gel (thanks to BK for the loan of the gels) pointing at the wall and one strobe to camera left at 1/2 power with a shoot through umbrella , I then converted to mono and dodged and burnt and applied a vignette in photoshop then added a border from the Digital Camera Mag's CD with issue 69

Corey with Red Gel

Pic of Corey taken with one flash to camera back right with red gel pointing at the wall and one flash with white shoot brolly camera left and then a first attempt with adding a texture to the image

Corey

Picture of Corey taken in bright sunshine with flash fired off camera left

David the Guitar God !!!!!!

Ross brought his Wii through with the new game Guitar Hero III : Legends of Rock and David fancies himself as the new Slash !!!!

Rock On !!!!!!

Zak

Taken using speedlight with shoot through white brolly @ 1/250th f/5.6 70mm

Birthday Boy !!

Happy 70th Birthday to Bob ........

Sophie

One of the first pictures taken using my new shoot through brolly for my speedlight
Flash at 1/2 power to camera left aimed at Sophie

Debs Off Camera Flash

Picture of Debs taken with off camera flash handheld to the left of camera Nikon 50mm F/1.8 @ F/4 1/250th sec

Zak

I have been wanting to try this shot since I got the flash gun using the wall in the back garden as the backdrop and a slightly twisted angle with the flash set at half power to camera left high on the tripod fired using my cactus triggers

Debs

Just a quick pic of Debs taken on a cold but sunny day on a walk to the park
This was taken with SB-28DX mounted on camera to balance against the bright sky

Mini Picture of the Day on Digital Camera Mag

One of my previously posted shots of Sophie on the Trampoline has made it onto Digital Camera Magazine's website as one of the Mini Picture's of the Day

Here is a screen grab of the websiteand the link to the site here and a link to my DCMag Gallery here

Pictures with Flash On and Off Camera .......

Picture of Sophie taken using my SB-28DX Flashgun mounted on the camera

This picture of Zak was taken with the same flashgun but this time mounted off camera and fired with my wireless trigger


This picture of Corey was also taken with the same flashgun mounted off camera and fired with the wireless trigger

Crosby, Stills & Nash - Helplessly Hoping - Another Video

Crosby, Stills & Nash - Helplessly Hoping -

Fantastic Song ...There Debut Ablum is one of my favourite albums ever

Santana - Soul Sacrafice - Live @ Woodstock

This is my favourite performance and song from Santana.....

Nivana - Rape Me -

Nick Harper - Guitar Man / Whole Lotta Love Vid

Stevie Ray Vaughan Version of Little Wing

Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing -

Nivana - Smells Like Teen Spirit -

Rage Against The Machine - Wake Up - On You Tube

Another Rage Against The Machine Track - Killing In The Name -

Rage Against The Machine - Freedom - On You Tube

Another from You Tube could be one of many .....

Seasick Steve You Tube Clip

You need to watch this clip ......its a classic......

Congrats to Brian Konstantinou for DCMAG

Congratulations must go to another mate Brian who has been featured in Digital Camera Magazines Hotshots section on two seperate occasions with the following pictures printed in the magazine

First up a picture of George


Then a picture from T in The Park 2006 featuring Maximo Park singer Paul Smith


You can see more of Brian's work at his website BKPhotography

Seasick Steve

Well Seasick Steve gig was last night at the ABC in Glasgow and what a gig it was he played to a packed crowd and everyone seemed to be right up for it including the man himself

Managed to get some pics from the front before security said the camera was pro and asked me to delete them which i did (DOH) and promptly got them all back again when I got home using this free recovery software from Convar it even picked up images long deleted from a formatted card ...lol

Anyway here is one pic from last night of Steve and his Drummer who is Swedish even though he looks like a old American like Steve

First Off Camera Flash With Cactus Triggers

This is a quick shot using the new Cactus Wireless V2s Triggers
I had the flash mounted behind me up high bouncing off the ceiling onto a white backgound behind Sophie to give a clean backgound

Congrats to Clark Wainwright on the MPOTD on DCMAG

One of my favourite links has a mates image as Mini Picture of the Day on Digital Camera Magazine Look Here

Great shot of the Kelvin Grove Art Gallery & Museum in Glasgow

Congrats on making the front page Clark !

See more of Clarks images at his website Clark Wainwright

Wireless Flash Triggers Are Here

My Triggers from Gadget Infinity arrived on Friday which was most unexpected as I thought it would be another 10 days at least not bad only 5 working days from Hong Kong !!

On the downside one of the receivers wouldnt trigger the flash even though the test from the transmitter fired the receiver but when connecting the receiver to the flash it would fire but just not with the transmitter sending the signal, I think there may be a wiring problem so will send that one back and get it replaced

Will try to get some pics done with off camera flash and post the results here

Well worth the money considering the price of the alternatives I think

Seasick Steve

Going to see Seasick Steve on Monday 28th @ the ABC in Glasgow for those of you that dont know his music check out his performance from Jools Hollands Hootenanny 2007 on You Tube
All done with a three string electric guitar !!!

Would love to take the camera with me and get some shots of him but dont think I will be able to take it into the venue hopefully find out for future gigs there

check out his website here and his myspace page here

Dragan Effect Take 2

After having a go with a pic of my Dad I thought I would try one of myself shot using the camera on timer mode with the SB-28DX flash set to bounce of the ceiling while the camera was sitting on the floor and i lay in front of it trying to do a dead body pose ...lol

Wireless Flash Triggers

Just ordered some wireless triggers from Gadget Infinity in Hong Kong went for the V2s as this is the latest model and also an extra receiver to go with it so that I can have eventually 2 off camera flashes setup

Should be here within 15 days so will post some pics up when I get them

Speelight Update

My SB-28DX arrived yesterday so need to try and get the remote triggers from ebay so that i can try the off camera flash stuff will post some pics when i get a chance to take some ...lol

Nikon Speedlight

Still waiting on my recent Ebay purchase of a Nikon SB-28DX Speedlight arriving from the States
Hopefully when i get it i can then see about getting another older speedlight ie SB-24, SB-26, SB-28/DX so that i can try the off camera lighting techniques as shown on the strobist blog
Then maybe get the wireless triggers from ebay for about £25 to fire them
Hoping that Monday will be the day it arrives ....lol

Dragan Effect

This was my first attempt at using the automated photoshop filter to do the Dragan effect slightly over the top and my Dad who is the subject of the picture says he looks like an extra from the Omen !!!

First Post

Hi All

Welcome to my new Blog not sure how often this will be updated but seeing as everyone else has one may aswell go with the flow and maybe add some pics and stuff as i go along

cheers
mojo