Garage Studios

We blogged about the Louie Banks, GangUp Magazine print competition earlier in the week and we are happy to say that the competition is online now, just click the link below…..

Latest7 if you scroll down halfway on the main page you’ll see an option to view an online flash version of the mag, on page 4-5 there is a write up about GangUp and details of how to enter the competition. Good luck all.

You can see some of the work on the link if you click the left of the main image, you’ll see the gallery of Louie and Sam pop up.

Latest Magazine are featuring GangUp this week and for one lucky reader (or one sneaky ‘out of the target distribution zone’ but with access to email reader) they are offering a one-off limited edition print of this image below. (The Competition will be run from the Latest site).

Louie Banks_Suburbia_GangUp

The print is approx 20″x16″ Giclee print, mounted on Aluminium, by our good friends at Colourstream. and is worth hundreds of pounds, and is the first print this size that Louie has made available. Believe me you’ll want to win this, as its a solid chance of getting this guys work before it becomes far too expensive to buy first editions of.

The competition, as far as we know, goes live tomo (tuesday) but we’ll post a full link as soon as we have it.

In the meantime if you’d like to buy copy of GangUp then click the link. Its a beautiful 104 page magazine, packed full of some fantastic photography, and is priced at £12. If for some reason you cant order online then its available in numerous outlets including Borders, and RD Franks, Crane Kalman and more…. (we’ll update this with links asap).

DarkDaze has been starting a few projects this month as part of the Creative Photography course he teaches at the studio, which encourages photographers to seek inspiration in others work and then take shots that they wouldn’t normally find themselves shooting.

Your life is my Vanity Project

This is the first week of an ongoing idea with Storm model Georgie Hobday, all shot on a Olympus mjuII, a tiny little compact camera with the worlds worst viewfinder but an incredible little sharp lens. They were all shot on Fuji Neopan 400 and processed at Colourstream, the shots were taken all within an hour, in various locations in Brighton. The model was shot in the clothes she arrived in for the shoot- the necklace turned out to be a really strong element of each shot.

Georgie Hobday and DarkDaze

Georgie Hobday- DarkDaze

Your life is my Vanity Project

He will be working with Georgie each week so keep a watch on the blog to see what comes out of this. There is a second project underway with another favourite model of ours, Elin, but apparently he’s not sure what shape that will take yet.

Hot off the press and straight outta Photoshop is the latest group image from the one day flash course that we run at Garage Studios.

Every flash / strobist course that he teaches, Adam, tries to get a group shot of the students on the course. You can see more of the group shots on the Garage Studios Flickr Account.

This was inspired by watching the students check the back of their cameras to see how the shots were coming out. Its a common photography practice which is affectionately known as Chimping. Each student is lit by their own flash and the whole seen is lit by one flash on an umbrella and two table lamps on the floor in the background.

If your interested in finding out about the one day flash course click on the link. We’ve just worked out the next dates for the course and they are Sunday 22nd November (half the places already reserved) and Sunday 17th January. If you’d like to reserve a place CLICK HERE

For a long time we have championed the rise of Louie Banks, a photographer we have supported for almost a year now. He has a great talent for fashion editorial and as you may know he was one of the first people DarkDaze got onboard for GangUp magazine. and he ended up shooting 3 editorials for the first issue.

You can see some of the work on the link if you click the left of the main image, you’ll see the gallery of Louie and Sam pop up.

Latest Magazine are featuring GangUp this week and for one lucky reader (or one sneaky ‘out of the target distribution zone’ but with access to email reader) they are offering a one-off limited edition print of this image below. (The Competition will be run from the Latest site).

Louie Banks_Suburbia_GangUp

The print is approx 20″x16″ Giclee print, mounted on Aluminium, by our good friends at Colourstream. and is worth hundreds of pounds, and is the first print this size that Louie has made available. Believe me you’ll want to win this, as its a solid chance of getting this guys work before it becomes far too expensive to buy first editions of.

The competition, as far as we know, goes live tomo (tuesday) but we’ll post a full link as soon as we have it.

In the meantime if you’d like to buy copy of GangUp then click the link. Its a beautiful 104 page magazine, packed full of some fantastic photography, and is priced at £12. If for some reason you cant order online then its available in numerous outlets including Borders, and RD Franks, Crane Kalman and more…. (we’ll update this with links asap).

So have a look tomorrow and see if you know the answer to the competition question, this print will look amazing on someones wall.

We’ve been so impressed with some of the shots we’ve seen, from one of our past Off camera flash / strobist course students, that we asked her to write a blog post for us.

Juliet Greig came on our FLASH: Improve your lighting course back in June and has just done an amazing shoot. Here’s what she wrote:

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“In the last few weeks I’ve been working with Charlotte, who is looking to build up a modeling portfolio. We had already done a few shoots of Charlotte with my photographer friend Katariina, who has bowens lights at her studio in Newhaven. This time we wanted to give off-camera flash a go, and take advantage of the natural surroundings of Brighton beach rather than a neutral studio environment. I wanted to re-create the atmosphere of the 1950s style beach photographs of the girls sitting on the railings, as Brighton is the perfect location.

Having recently done Adam Bronkhorst’s off-camera flash course at Garage Studios, I was able to get things set up without too many problems. I put the nikon SB600 flash on a lighting stand and attached an umbrella to diffuse the light. Unfortunately the wind was blowing so strongly that the umbrella crumpled and broke within the first 5 minutes. That was an important lesson, umbrellas and wind don’t go together very well! Anyhow, I used a plastic stofen diffuser on the flash for the rest of the shoot.

As the sun began to set, the golden glow was visible through the glass of the promenade shelters. Katariina had the idea of asking Charlotte to pose in front of the shelters, which turned out to be the best idea of the day. The golden light in the photographs behind Charlotte is exactly what we saw. The settings for the camera for these shots was 1-200 sec shutter speed, f 6.3, ISO 100 with the flash off-camera on a stand at 1/8th power.

This shoot was the first time I had used off-camera flash outside and it was a valuable learning experience. Charlotte, Katariina and myself are very pleased with the shots and we will definitely be trying this kind of photography again!

Juliet”

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We’ve just set the new dates for the FLASH: Improve your lighting course and they are Sunday 22nd November & Sunday 17th January. If you’d like to find out more or to book a place CLICK HERE.

You can see more of Juliet’s photography on her Flickr stream here and you can see some more past students work here in an old blog post

In the mean time have a look at Juliet’s amazing photos:

If you’d like to find out more or to book a place on the flash course CLICK HERE.