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This weekend I was supposed to be in sweden living it large at the Drag Racing, that never really happened which is a massive shame as it sounded like a dam good weekend according to the eurodragster coverage.

Not one to waste a free weekend, I caught up with my good  friend Robyn to throw some light around have some fun and make some cool pin up pictures.

To start with we headded down the road to bristol to The Lanes which is a killer period Bowling Alley and Diner.

After siding around on the polished floor of the alleys we headded over the other end of the building to get a milkshake take some pictures in the Diner.

Next stop was some really cool period lamp post Robyn has spotted round the corner from hers so we waited for the light to drop and the sky to go a deep blue before heading out

Lighting for this one was super simple, the camera was set to 7200k white ballence to really blue out everything bar from the tungsten lighting, then to match the flash to the street light I threw on a full CTO filter and got the light as high as I could. “Crushing the Brolly” to really controll the light so I could emulate the soft but semi-focused light of the street lamp, all pretty simple stuff really.

Sunday we hit the local Launderette, first a quick example of how just changing the color ballence on the camera can have a massive effect on the mood of a picture

3400k white balance will give you the above. Didnt like this felt the light didnt suit the mood of the clothing so I dropped the White Balance to 6400k and let the kool blue tones rock on!

A quick outfit change to something a little more period. Was really wanting to give it the look of shot from the 50’s that often have quite a yellow tinge inside, so I nocked the White Balance back down to somewhere around 3400k, dropped the hight of the light by about two ft to make it look like the setting sun is glowing in through the window.

Getting the light back up high cooling the White Balance off and moving the light back to give a soft even glow let me get something that you could easily mistake as being from straight out the 50’s

After the launderette we had some time to kill before I had to head off.

The above was pretty simply lit Just kept moving the main light around to suppress any shadows I didn’t want

Just to finish with what has to be the best photo from the weekend, I know I started the post with it but I just gotta show you it again!

Thats it people! I have a couple of posts that I need to catch up on including the film photo’s from the NSRA Nos Nats and a Day with Steve Plater.

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