Dear Santa . . .
So, let me tell you more about the latest investment I have made on behalf of you, my clients.
For less than £5K this Cambo Ultima II system offers a truly modular solution and brings the same precise image control usually reserved for my large format camera to the sensor of my Nikon D800E.
Time has gone by so quickly, as they say.
It only feels like yesterday that I established Allinson’s Photography to boost my income with some Social Photography, while I was still working for Kevin Radcliffe at Photogenic Studios delivering Commercial Photography shooting jars of coffee, frozen chickens, Scarpa Boots and flymo lawn mowers etc. It was in fact 1989!
It was only a year later after almost 10 years working for Photogenic I had been in and out of a few weeks working at Chromazone and started up on my own “proper” as a commercial photographer with Nissan as my only client.
So much has happened in that 25 years. I founded (and in recent years wound up) a charity (Design Aid) that delivered in excess of £1.4m worth of aid to Charitable projects and I worked for a short time with the a cooperative of creatives delivering a full range of advertising industry services, “the Studio Cooperative”.
I have enjoyed many different roles in my working life from fundraising to website building yet over 30 years after starting in the Photographic Labs at Ravensworth Studios, here I am still enjoying my work in photography with the same small business I started 25 years ago.
Somewhere in amongst all that I found the time to; ride lots of miles on motorcycles through many countries, get married, get divorced, move in and out of several business premises, as well as moving house several times, twice after meeting Sue. First to live at her home in Makemland and more recently a move to live in “our new home” in Low Fell where I previously lived until I was about 9 or 10 yrs old.
I’ve also gone full circle with business premisses I started out working from home in Heaton in 1989 and recently after years of renting expensive city centre business premises I have returned to working from home in Low Fell all be it a much bigger home better suited to the task.
25 years eh?
So, yesterday I noticed that the Perfect Effects 8 App and plugin for Lightroom, Aperture and Photoshop had gone free for a limited time I of course grabbed the download straight away and after work last night looked for an image to test it out with.
Iv’e not used Aperture for a couple of years so I thought I’d open it up for this. I found this old holiday photo from a good 5 years or more ago in France and here is the result.
I think I’ll be using Perfect Effects 8 again
500px / Street View of Grasse by Bruce Allinson.
PR Photography by North East photographer Allinson’s Photography
A charity providing challenging Outdoor Education opportunities for young people is securing its long term future by expanding and improving its facilities.Marine Activities Centre MAC is embarking on a £315k development project at its base at Sunderland Marina with support from NatWest and the Regional Growth Fund’s ‘Let’s Grow’ scheme.The MAC owns and operates Sunderland Marina through a trading subsidiary company; any surplus produced by the commercial operation of the marina is used to support its charitable activities – delivering a range of subsidised outdoor and adventurous activities for schools, community groups, young people and other organisations.
via Sunderland Marine charity expands with £315k investment | Bdaily Business News.
Great ad makes me want to grow a beard and bite the heads of live chickens!
MJW’s new campaign for Valvoline pays tribute to horsepower and its effect on man. With every grunt of the engine, modern man is taken back further to his primal self. Only when he emerges from his high-powered car does he go back to being a regular guy.
I’m not so sure that this will have the same effect on me with our 96bhp diesel Picasso!
via ▶ VALVOLINE – MAN LIKE HORSEPOWER – YouTube.
Never work with children or animals they say, well check out the work and creativity and the animals in this fantastic photography
Katerina Plotnikova did something extremely amazing!
One thing to note here: Animals are real!
see more via Photoshop? NO. These Are Real Animals | fosgrafi.
Philippines-based illustrator Kerby Rosanes proves that doodling can be so much more than scratching unintelligible scribbles on paper. Through his Sketchy Stories blog, Rosanes shares his wonderful world of doodling in a simple Moleskine sketchbook. Equipped with an ordinary Moleskine, a few Uni Pin drawing pens, and his innate gift for drawing, the artist is able to transport viewers to a world where tiny, cartoonish creatures explode with gusto to make up larger entities.
via Spectacular Moleskine Doodles Explode with Energy – My Modern Metropolis.
It’s here. The Pentax 645Z Medium Format camera has arrived just as the rumor sites said it would, and the camera’s release date was far from the only rumor that has proven to be 100% true. In fact, we’ll have to look hard to find anything they got wrong.
via Pentax’s New Medium Format 645Z Packs a 51MP CMOS Sensor and Max ISO 204,800.
I recently produced a new hardback portfolio book for Allinson’s Photography using “Blurb” it was so easy to use the quality of the book was very good for just £24. You can flick through the pages of the book below, share the book and visit Blurb to make your own book.