Patricia Beck

A relaxed moment during the Daniele Mabe shoot, Isle of Syke, Scotland.

Black Cuillin

    The Black Cuillin mountains seen from "Joe Cornish" beach, Elgol, Isle of Skye. Nikon D700 + 28mm polariser 1/15th sec f22 handheld

Krishna Carvalho

    Make-up artist Krishna Carvalho, Nikon D700 + 180mm f3.2 1/500s Iso 400, nicely dropping off focus on right eye.

Location Lighting

    Model Patricia Beck in high heels and make-up artist Krishna Carvalho ignore health and safety on the
    edge of a 100ft precipice at the Quairing, Isle of Skye.  Photo: Mark Davey 
     
Make-up by Krishna Carvalho, concept and photography by Gustavo Zylbersztajn Camera Hasselblad H4D + 35-90mm, Lighting Profoto 5ft Octabox on 7B head with B2 Pack triggered by Pocket Wizard. Winter collection for Brazilian designer Daniele Mabe. Lighting supplied by Calumet Edinburgh.
Bruce Telford (Bruce's Highland Tours)holds the Profoto lightstand and Octabox, used for fill,while I grab a quick shot, Nikon D700 + 28mm/polariser


 Brazilian fashion photographer Gustavo Zylbersztajn flew from 32ºC to -1ºC when he chose the Isle of Skye for his latest shoot.
Mr Zylbersztain, 36, from the equatorial heat of Sao Paulo, Brazil visited Scotland during the harsh winter of 2010. He was stunned by Highland Scotland's soft subtle lighting compared to the often harsh light of his homeland. On his return to Brazil he sought a client who might be interested in using the Scottish landscape for an advertising campaign.
The former building's civil engineer, who now earns a crust photographing beautiful models around the world for magazines such as Vogue and Elle soon found a designer with the same vision. Small Brazilian designer  Daniele Mabe  was looking for something slightly different for her 2012 winter collection.
Winter in Brazil, which begins in April, is a relative term as the temperature in Sao Paulo rarely drops below 6ºC. Miss Mabe's styles would be suitable for a Scottish summer.

    Patricia Beck balances on the icy parapet of the old bridge, designed by Thomas Telford, at Sligachan,   
    Isle of Skye. Photo: Mark Davey


Model Patricia Beck, more used to sunnier climes such as Mumbai and Madrid, where she has recently worked said:
"It was very cold but last winter I did a shoot on Brooklyn Bridge, New York, when it was -10ºC and although there was a temporary tent for clothes changes, it had no heating."
On Skye Miss Beck made all changes between different outfits in the back of a four-wheel-drive provided by Bruce Telford of Highland Tours where Krishna Carvalho also applied the make-up.

Elgol Beach

Black Cuillin range from Elgol Beach at 1/15th sec handheld. I was lucky enough to be assisting Brazilian photographer Gustavo Zylbersztajn and his wife Patricia who was modelling a winter range for Daniele Mabe.
I kept telling him he was enjoying amazing light for the Isle of Skye in December.

Edinburgh Calumet Night Out

Nikon V1 - Sensor Detail

Nikon

Despite being a dedicated follower of Canon Scott Louden thought us Nikonistas deserved something to cheer us up. While Canon ran a big lens day Nikon sent us this giant camera ably displayed by Gavin Dougan at Calumet, Edinburgh.

White Water

Nikon D7000 + 180mm at f4 1/2000th Iso 400 while waiting for salmon to leap!

Cross Screen Filter

Photo taken with a Nikon D7000, Manual mode, 1/30th f4 50mm manual focus lens, flash fired. Starlight effect created in camera with filter. Colours in the lens are light refracting from my pop-up flash.

Citroen Light 15

BMW R45

Polished Rocker achieved with P320 Wet and Dry followed by P600 Wet and Dry, final polish with autosol applied with a toothbrush and polishing cloth.

Refund

Today a guy came into the shop with two 2GB compact flash cards. Unfortunately both cards, purchased in 2008, only allowed 1GB of memory in the camera. I agreed to exchange them for two 4GB cards, as we no longer have 2GB cards.
Told the customer our process would be to refund the original purchase to his credit card on the understanding that he would buy the replacement cards. Checked his account and discovered that there was no history of him purchasing the 2GB cards.
He said they were purchased as a present by a woman, whose name he gave. I said he would have to get her to come to the shop and we would be able to refund to her card.
Later in the day she turned up and said that an ex-boyfriend she'd split with two years previously had asked to meet him in our shop to do some sort of refund. The original customer entered the store and the process began:
I refunded her more than £70 and he said she'd have to use her card to buy the 4GB CF cards, she agreed but both the credit cards she tried to use for the transaction were declined. (The refund can take three days to go back).
In frustration he took his wallet out and paid £60 for the two cards, our margin on the cards was better than the original sale.
Afterwards we were splitting our sides as his ex walked off £70 better off and he now had two new cards but    had lost the use of the 2GB cards which had been returned. Plus it appeared he'd spent two hours trying to put the deal together.

Ceilidh Dance

Sarah and Paul Harrison dance the night away on their wedding day at Norton House Hotel near Edinburgh.















Photo Notes: Nikon D700 + 28mm/2.8 ISO 800 f8 1/4 second + flash from SB900 Rear Curtain Sync and handheld.

WNEG

Police BMW

BMW R1150RT

Tour of Britain Escort Bikes

Swiss Cheese

Click on Title: "Swiss Cheese" to follow a link to the competition.

North Cup Burgie

Anna Davey on Wispa rockets across the water during the cross-country.
Photo notes: Nikon D700 + 85mm/1.8 ISO400, 1/1000th f4 + Flash from Vivitar 283 which seems to sync ok even when camera is set to Auto FP which takes the sync speed to any speed. I always understood that this mode only worked with Nikon guns.

Creag Leacach

Creag Leacach photographed with Fuji Provia 100 on the afternoon of Saturday 20th August 2011

Cairn Bannoch

Tim Breeze reviews photos on the summit of Cairn Bannoch July 3rd 2011. Photographed with Fuji Provia 100 using a Nikon 28mm/2.8 series E Lens

Sony Nex-7

The Sony Nex-7 featuring a 24 Million Pixel APS-C size sensor is a huge leap from the original Nex 5. It has the largest pixelled sensor from any camera close to a compact and is sure to prove popular. While Nikon and Canon do not have anything close to this in APS-C sensors surely those companies cannot be far behind.
Main features:

• 24.3 effective megapixels Exmor APS HD CMOS sensor
• Quick, responsive autofocus and world’s fastest (0.02 sec) release time lag
• Quick, versatile new TRINAVI control
• High-resolution XGA OLED Tru-Finder and built-in flash
• Full HD Movie with 50p/25p, manual focus, full P/A/S/M exposure control and improved audio
• 10fps continuous shooting (Speed priority mode) Thanks to Ephotozine: http://www.ephotozine.com/article/sony-nex-7-interchangeable-lens-camera-17250

Bull

"So you want me to walk round that ring?" Bull photographed at Peebles agricultural show August 13th 2011 with Nikon D200 + 180mm/2.8 lens.

Citroen Xsara Picasso

Just onto the Isle of Skye from the Glenelg ferry in early June 2011 with mountains of Kintail in the background. Photo by Geraldine Davey

Citroen Light 15

Cartoon of George Davey working on his Citroen Light 15 drawn by a colleague when he left Havant in the 1950s.

Piglets

"There were Four-in-the-bed - and the middle one said: "Roll over..........."

Loganberry

Loganberry shot with a Nikon D7000 and 60mm/2.8 Macros lens

Hopetoun House Cross Country

A Competitor in the cross-country at Hopetoun House eventing on Saturday 30th July, shot with a Nikon D7000, 85mm/1.8 and Nikon SB700 flash.

Provia 100

Summit of Carn an t-Saigairt Mor shot on a Nikon FM2N and 28mm Series E lens plus polariser.

Poppy

Poppy about to open shot on Provia 100 film

The big bite

The big bite
Originally uploaded by MartynJB

Peebles Beltane 2011

Cornet's Reel at 10.30pm outside the Tontine Hotel, Peebles High Street, Wednesday June 22nd 2011, Nikon D100, 28-70mm/2.8, Vivitar 283 Flash 1/4 sec f8

Matterhorn, Zinalrothorn, Obergabelhorn & Dent Blanche

Another shot with the folding Zeiss Ikonta from the North Ridge of the Weisshorn in August 1989.

Weisshorn View

The view East at Sunrise one day in August 1989 from halfway up the Grand Gendarme on the North Ridge of the Weisshorn, Swiss Alps. It's a bit magenta but I've not fiddled with it in Photoshop.
Taken on Kodak Gold 200 film, using a Zeiss Ikonta 6 x 6 cm camera, with a 75mm/4.5 Anstigmat lens. Unfiltered. I'd only owned the camera about six weeks and the picture has some flare from the uncoated lens.
It is ideal for mountaineering as it is light-weight with the lens folding into the body and shoots medium format negatives.
I'd hate to take a modern Hasselblad digital up the North Ridge of the Weisshorn - the battery would probably fail!! Apart from the weight................oh and £8,000, the Zeiss cost £80.00 and you can still get them for about the same money.

Isle of Rum

Looking back to the Isle of Rum and the Cuillin mountains from the deck of the Caledonian MacBrayne ferry to Mallaig. This was the first clear day after 8 days of rain and storm. Taken with Provia 100 film through a Nikon FM2N + 28mm lens and polariser.

Isle of Rum

Deer Tracks on Kilmory beach, Isle of Rum. Somewhere in the haze and rain clouds in the background lurks the Isle of Skye.
Photograph by Geraldine Davey, on a Nikon D200 with standard 18-55mm zoom at 18mm.

Long Lens

Spent some time pondering purchasing a variable aperture zoom such as the 70-300mm VR before our trip to the Isle of Rum.
Eventually took my 180mm/2.8 and a manual TC200 2X converter. On the D200 this gives the equivalent of a 560mm f5.6. I used that to take this photo of a duck? (Does anyone know what it is?)
Settings 1/500th f5.6 ISO 125

Carn na Caim

Camera Panning

Taken on Fuji Provia 100 film with a Nikon F100, 70-300mm G VR lense 1/60th f11 using panning where the camera moves at the same speed as the moving subject thus blurring the background

Cloud Inversion

Clouds bubble round the summit of Snowdon North Wales originally taken on a Kodachrome slide  with a Zeiss Ikonta Folding 6x6cm camera with 75mm f4.5 lens in 1992

Harris Mausoleum

Fuji Provia 100

Glas Bheinn Mhor and Ben Starav Shot on Fuji Provia 100, Nikon FM2N + 28mm Series E Lens

Floors Eventing 2011

Nikon D200, 70-300mm VR panned at 1/60th f11 Iso 200

Floors Eventing 2011