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Jumping around on a Spring Sunday afternoon!

lesauvage — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:25:25 +0000

Had a sunny spring sunday afternoon, Simone was hanging around the studio and a new portable HSS light to test so why not take it all out for a walk and shoot a couple of shots! An hour or so later the test was done and back home for a cup of tea!

Equipment list

lesauvage — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:45:21 +0000

OK it was a quiet sunday afternoon! Taking photos of my equipment for a location camera checklist so I don’t turn up on location with the wrong kit! For those that know me know that I like my equipment lightweight so I can travel to any location in the world with the lightest kit available. Thought the images would look good as a collage!

Retro 1950s Pinup

lesauvage — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:19:11 +0000

Pinup in the 1950s looked so innocent! Its all changed now with girly magazines now showing a lot more. These pinup styles of images were intended to be cut out of magazines and as the name suggests be pinned up on the wall to brighten up the day of a mans locker room.

Camera was a Contax 645 with the 80mm lens and a Phase One digital back

My first Apple Mac

lesauvage — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:07:11 +0000

Digging around the cupboards in the studio I found my first Apple Mac Powerbook 540 C brought for $5500 in 1994. They had just been launched at the Apple Expo San Francisco and I flew there from Miami where I was living at the time and paid cash for that baby! God did it scream with Adobe Photoshop 2.5 on the go I could process a one meg image in about an hour! Mind you at the time I had no use for the image as the internet hadn’t properly been invented as yet and magazines had no proper idea of how to deal with a digital image. It was the early days! So the image just sat on the computer looking back at me! But that wasn’t the point. It was the future!

Getting that image into the computer meant you had to take the photo……process the film…..print the image….and pull it into the computer by scanning the image (which could take up to half an hour in Photoshop 2.5 and then we would play around with it for hours seeing what strange things we could do with it and play with the four filters we had. Those were the early days of digital!

The Specs on this computer looking back makes you wonder how we ever got anything out of it as it was so slow!

The Apple Macintosh PowerBook 540c featured a 33 MHz 68LC040 processor, 4 MB of RAM, a 320 MB hard drive, with support for multiple batteries in a sleek portable case and a 9.5″ color active-matrix display. 2 hours of battery life.

The amazing this is that the sodding thing still works! Good old Apple!!! Roll on iPad!