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If you’ve ever wondered what using a cheap plastic camera in a professional photography studio with a few thousand pounds worth of lighting equipment looks like, wonder no further…..

A little while ago we did a photo shoot with The Glorious Freaks you can see the digital results from the Canon 5D Mk II at this blog post.

With the first Holga & Diana Camera workshops taking place on Sunday 7th February, we are trying lots of different techniques with the cameras.

We were actually quite surprised by the quality of the images from the Holga camera, (a cheap plastic camera first made in the early 80s and with a plastic lens) under studio lights. We expected them to be a lot more lo-fi. In fact we got so many good shots from the two rolls of film that it was difficult to narrow the edit down.

So would you believe here are a load of shots taken on the Holga camera with film that expired in 1998.

Coming to Brighton, next Tuesday, 15th Dec at The Old Music Library Church St.

The legendary photographer Ricky Powell is giving a talk on his work, with a slideshow of images in a great venue in the centre of Brighton. Ricky originally made his name shooting the Beastie Boys, and is often referred to as the fourth Beastie Boy, he has since gone on to document some of the most infamous and influential HipHop superstars of all time, as well as shooting Street Portraits and Celebrities.

Although we arent organising this night, (its being promoted by someone we work with on a lot of our shoots- and friend of Rickys) we thought we just had to tell you to come down to this, a real chance to see and listen to the work of a genuine legend who must surely be filled with as many great stories as he has great shots.

There will also be some Old School HipHop from DJ Format for those of you who are old enough to remember when the Beasties first hit our shores, and the front of all the tabloids.

The Event starts at 7pm, but is likely to be packed out with only a £5 entrance fee.

Part 1 – Canon 5D Mk II

Last week the studio was graced by The Glorious Freaks. Who can be described many ways, but the best may be as a collective of photographers from the Brighton Flickr community. Three of the five are also past Garage Studios students having all done our Flash course. The five comprise of Lisa, Alex, Erin, Lee and Rob.

Now at Garage Studios we have been long time admires of what The Glorious Freaks have been doing, and when the opportunity presented itself for us to lend them the studio for a few hours on a Wednesday night we were happy to accommodate them.

We wanted to show you a few of the shots from the session as well as some outtakes, (although only a few have made it to the final cut) so you can see how many great shots we got from the night, and what is possible from a few hours in the studio and a bit of planning beforehand.

This is the fist blog of two, as we took some shots on a Holga camera to see what they would come out like under studio lights, so watch this space to see the shots on film.

So many thanks to the Glorious Freaks for bringing a sense of the unusual to the studio.

A few weeks ago we did a Christmas shoot for a Brighton Graphic Design company called Harrison & Co. They commissioned us to do a shoot for their Christmas card that they send out every year.We worked with the company after being supplied with an initial sketch idea, to refine and deliver the shots they needed. As well as going on a hunt for all of the bad Christmas jumpers in Brighton. After looking in all of the charity shops for them, we discovered that if you want really bad taste Christmas Jumpers, you need to look in the very coolest trendy retro and vintage clothing shops.

The shoot was great fun to do and the atmosphere in the studio was like a Christmas party, the clients got into character and we shot some portraits of the staff while the others were getting ready. See the portraits below.

Chris Harrison had his little point and shoot film camera and took some photos on the day, so we thought we’d show you those as well.

One of our in-house photographers, Kevin Mason, has launched his new portfolio website, if you go and take a look now you’ll see the ten weeks of the Vanity Project, (an hour a week with the same model, Georgie Hobday) and his Fashion Editorial sets. Its a simplified version of his previous site with full fashion stories and a fresh edit of images.

The link Kevin Mason’s Photography

Kevin Mason Photography for Garage Studios.

Kevin has an excellent client list, and has shot numerous covers, promos, album artwork and fashion campaigns and will be updating further sets in the next week, including Band Promos and Portrait, as well as personal work. Please contact/commission through us here at Garage Studios.

Once again thanks to Delarge for the website construction and design.