Owls in the studio

Just before Christmas I photographed several Owls in the studio. Here's one of the photos of a Snowy Owl I took. More on my web-site here :
 http://www.dj-photo.com/gallery/personal/

Snowy Owl Photographed in the studio

Recent fashion shoot for a UK designer, two day shoot in February. make-up and hair by Lorraine Milligan, model Freya Berry.

Fashion photo

A photograph of mine has been shortlisted as one of seven finalists in the category 'Food Portraiture' for the title Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year. The image will be exhibited at The Mall Galleries, London in April!

Image Magazine Article

I have two photos published this month in the Association of Photographers' magazine 'Image'.
More about the mag here:
http://home.the-aop.org/IMAGE_Magazine

©Darrin Jenkins 2012

Olympians

I'm in the process of photographing three Olympians, will post images when the ads are out.

Toast

Conceptual Photograph of Toast

Some experimental photography

Things are progressing with a long term project I have started. The aim is to show some sort of emotion in the subjects. Here's the first two images, one of them is my plummer!

Young girl with flowers

Portrait Photograph

UK Copyright Law to be Reviewed!

Britain's intellectual property laws are to be reviewed to "make them fit for the internet age," prime minister David Cameron has announced.

Yet again the government (this time the Conservatives) are threatening to mess with the Copyright law which was created in 1988 as a result of a lot of hard work and lobbying by the creative industry, one result was that the creator of the intellectual property is the Copyright holder by default (there are some exceptions when the person is employed).

Quote the BBC:
"The government will do a 6 month review to look at what the UK can learn from US rules on the use of copyright material without the rights holder's permission".

What right does anyone have to use the property of others without their permission? The Internet Freedom campaigners would like see fair use as a legal, I would consider this as being an approach that not only dilutes the value of creative works but will also hit the creative industry hard financially, it will also make it even harder than is at present to get reasonable damages if work is used illegally.

Quote from Chief executive Richard Mollet of the Publishers Association:
"The immutable fact remains that the people who generate and invest in creativity deserve and need to be rewarded."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news

People Ignor Generic Photos Online

The New York Time has reported on a study by Jakob Nielsen, a web site consultant and author of several books about design and user interface. Published on 2nd Nov 2010.

Quote:

"In the past he has argued that large images annoy users because of the long load times, even with a high-speed Internet connection. Now, in a new study, he points out that the random or stock images on Web sites are completely ignored by users, add more clutter to the page and don’t necessarily help from a business standpoint."

and

"Mr. Nielsen concludes with some advice to those using the Web to hawk products or content: “Invest in good photo shoots: a great photographer can add a fortune to your Web site’s business value.” After all, he notes, most sites are full of “fluff — of which there’s too much already on the Web.”"

You can see the full article here:

NYTIMES

Hot Chocolate

Here's an experimental video clip which I took to explore transformations.

http://www.vimeo.com

Photograph of fungi using Helicon Focus App

Fungi

This photograph was an experimental shot to test an application called Helicon Focus.

When photographing subjects close-up like the fungi shot above you get very little depth-of-field and it can be very difficult to get enough of the subject in focus. By shooting a series of images (in this case 14) at various focusing points and importing them into Helicon, you can combine the images together to make one final shot that is all in focus. This one took a little trial and error but finally I got the result I wanted. Camera used was a Sinar X with Phase One P45+ digital MF back.

My favorite photograph

My favorite photograph I have ever taken must be the one I took from a hot air balloon whilst flying over Marrakech city centre on a Decembers day a few years ago. I was on a job at the time to photograph Richard Branson's Global Challenger balloon, and we got a treat of a balloon flight over the city. The maze of small alleyways and crammed houses was an amazing site to see from above so it was a 'must' to photograph. 

The photograph was entered into a competition (London Photographic Association Competition) and won first prize in  'Urbanscape 1'.

PLEASE NOTE ALL THE PHOTOS ON MY BLOGS ARE COPYRIGHT PROTECTED AND IT IS ILLEGAL TO COPY ANY WITHOUT MY PERMISSION.