Kris Bentham Photography

Mr and Mrs Philips

I had the Pleasure to shoot Steve and Sam's special day, It was a joy to shoot and the grounds at Consall hall was a excellent location full of colour and varied locations.

Wild camping and night photography

While wild camping in the lake district over easter set up my cameras intervalometer to create a time-lapse of the passing meteor shower. due to the fact i had little battery and my tripod was on its last legs so would slowly move the time-lapse never worked out.

The nights images weren't lost thought, during the time-lapse we had been using red head touches to see, this had illuminated the rock in the image and created some interesting light trails in some of the frames so i decided to layer the images to create star trails.

when i tried saving the images the compression would create a chequered effect in the sky the only way i have found around this is by creating a screen capture, thought this would not be ideal if i need to print the image.

Location fashion shoot

Fashion on location

We had an experience with location fashion photography this week with a workshop run by Talia white with Rebecca Fisher modelling During the shoot I tired to think about combining the available light and flash while incorporating the model into the environment.

During the shoot i was trying to create a elegant aged theame to the images drawing inspiration off the dress and surrounds of Tudor grand house. In doors I used available light as well as my flash for fill light to help push the images quality, I altered the flash settings to allow the ambient light to be stronger and give a natural look.

while editing i experimented with using photoshop and lightroom, origanly i was using photoshop but found it lack of tonal adjustments resulted in the images looking too separate. I later tried lightroom as a means to simplify this process, the adjustments brush served to give good results for 'beauty effects' and it offered a simpler approach being less options and more restricted, whilst having the control of the tonal adjustments easily accessed. Photoshop seams to run more seamlessly as I found the Lightroom could be more 'laggy' but this could be due to the amount of images i have in lightroom.

over all the shoot was fun and relaxed it was good experience and shows how much i have improved during the first year of my HND course.

Street photogprahy la Boqueria

A collection of images from la Boqueria, Barcelona

Ansel Adams inspire digital locations

For my location shoot I chose an Ansel Adams inspired project. I took a 5x4 camera up some of the hills in the lake district. I shot in a similar way to Adam using exposing of the shadows

using my digital camera as a light meter I would meter the shadows to -2ev to reduce the blown out highlights and give maximum detail and contrast thought out the shot.

I shot both film and digital for the project mainly using the digital as a light meter here are some of the digital images that I created.

3d pinhole

I designed this camera capture every bit of light with in the pin hole, essentially giving the image a feeling of depth

I had previously used the design to make a origami camera obscure so the design was easy and familiar to create the sizing was a little off I had 10x8 photographic paper so wanted to base the design around that, I didn't take in to account the space in the camera for the folds.

I started with just the camera box and the photographic paper inserted inside but the results had a lot of light leaks so i made an external lid to ensure the camera was light tight.

I made 2 sizes as a way to compare the effects on the sides of the image. the deeper camera didn't seam to work as well possible due to the light intensity decreasing as it travels thought the camera.

This is the best image I got, i have inverted it in Lightroom but this could be done by contact printing to get the feel and look of the original.

This one came out blurred but shows how the sides lead you in to the image.

Cyanotypes and Gum bichromate

This week we used cyanotypes and gum bichromate, these are uv sensitive processes, and some of the first discovered methods of using light sensitive chemicals to record images.

As I have had experience with the cyanotypes before I decided to try some tri prossesed images. These allow you to layer colours using different digital negatives and create a colour image.

I used the contact sheet holder and tape to ensure the negative didn't slide. As the Strength of the natural UV light reduced thought the day I resorted to artificial lighting i raised the print closer to the light and used foam board to bounce some of the lost UV light back

The final images

This was the most successful print I applied a cross process effect to the colours by alternating the filters. I started with a yellow using a cyan filter, then i applied a red filter using cyan Gum and for the yellow filter used red.

This print had 4 process as the first cyan did not take well, I applied with
Red - Cyan - Yellow -Cyan

This print was created with Cyan - red and finally yellow

Mr and Mrs Philips

Wild camping and night photography

Location fashion shoot

Street photogprahy la Boqueria

Ansel Adams inspire digital locations

3d pinhole

Cyanotypes and Gum bichromate

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