Day 123 - ferns

More signs of spring for you, as the ferns alongside Huddersfield Narrow Canal suddenly uncurl and burst into life.

Day 122 - moody me

As I was a bit grumpy this evening, I thought I'd take a picture to match.

Using the Sigma 10-20mm wide angle lens, I stopped down the evening light to f/8 to get some brooding clouds, then lit myself with a single flash camera left with the Lumiquest mini-softbox.  I only managed a few frames before the rain came down, but I think this one works reasonably well.

Post-processing has a mono overlay to give the bleach bypass look.

Day 121 - fluffy jumper

Inspired by the cover of my last Photography Monthly (last until they get a new editor anyway), here's Sian in a nice fluffy jumper with some tasty backlight to make it glow.  Key light provided by single flash with a shoot-thru brolly.

Day 120 - Escaping snail

This evil gastropod was making a dash for it over the garden gate, but I caught him.

Day 119 - a shadow falls

Good heavens, I nearly missed a day!  In fact, this was taken slightly late.  Luckily the girls woke me up in the middle of the night and I couldn't get back to sleep knowing that I'd missed a snap.  This is our sofa and the shadows of the tree in the garden, lit by the street lamp outside.  I had to sit the camera on a toy box as the exposure was 30s and I wasn't going to go hunting for a tripod at 2.30 in the morning.  I hope you'll all forgive me ;)

Day 118 - Stacey at Marsden

I've got another great photo shoot to show off in this post.  I met Stacey from Model Mayhem near Marsden for some shots on a country chic theme...

These shots were both taken with the sun behind to light Stacey's hair and a bare flash camera right for fill.

After a bit of that, we tried something a little different...

Bare flash behind with a purple gel and another flash camera right with Lumiquest Softbox III.

Note - Once again, I've got a little out of sync with my days, but I think we're back on track now!

Day 117 - Green shoots

Not the green shoots of financial recovery, but the wonderful site of seeds starting to grow.  In this particular case, an aubergine.  No idea if we'll get it to fruit in Yorkshire, but at least I've got a snap from it.

This was lit with one flash above with shoot through umbrella and another tightly snooted directly above to light the inside of the pot.  This gives the crisp, bright look to the compost and seedling, without spilling over on the outside surface.