Recent content by _belial

Hi all, I've shot in a few studios in the east end but I now work in Westminster and hoping to find a decent studio in West london to save me some travel, does anyone have any recommendations for good studios with some decent props available? Ideally boudoir setting or also nice brick/stone...

Nothing to drag me away from my D700 there tbh, would have loved the high-iso of the D4, but guess i'll have to wait :(

Another + for lensesforhire here too, i've used them a few times and their service is second to none.

That M42 shot is amazing John, really spectacular stuff!

I've used DSS before, excellent bit of kit. I did try "Iris" once but was a bit too over-compllicated for what I needed at the time. All my stacked startrails are processed with either use DSS or "startrails.exe".

Thanks for all the advice everyone, it's very much appreciated. I'm really fancying the idea of that astrotrac, as it's reasonably cheap entry point into astrophotography but also means I could buy some new glass for my camera i could use for astro + other areas. I've taken a few just on my...

ooh that looks pretty impressive Ian, have you used one of those? Looks ideal (and portable) for starting out without spending a fortune.

Thank you all for the advice, it's certainly given me food for thought. If I was to go out and get the driven heq5, would I be able to plug the finder from my syscan into it for it to auto track?

What would you recommend? It's a minefield out there :)) I'm just reading up on posts in that stargazerslounge now so thanks for the heads-up. I know a friend of mine had the EQ5 mount, and although was an excellent mount, the only disadvantage was that he was pretty much restricted to using...

Thanks Allan. Would something like this (i'll get a motorised mount) be more suitable then? http://www.harpersphoto.co.uk/product/skywatcher_200p_eq5_pro_synscan/ What would I need to piggy-back my DSRL on it as well? I have the t-rings and adapters etc for taking images prime through the...

Thanks Paul, I was hoping I wouldn't have to hunt a new scope though, but seems like it may be a better option in the long-term then. What about piggy-backing my DSLR onto my skywatcher? I've seen this mentioned a few times, how is it done? How do you get the camera lined up with the telescope...

Hi all, I've wanted to take some pictures of some DSO's for a while now, but am unsure about the best way to go about it. I have a Sky-Watcher SkyMax 127 (127mm f/1500 Maksutov), and have managed to get some great lunar shots, and managed to view some of our near neighbours. But as of yet...

Hi all, I was at a studio shooting last night, and I was playing around with shooting against a chroma-key green screen which i'd purchased a while ago but never got around to using yet. Anyway, I got quite a few shot of the models in various poses I could imagine against settings, but...

Ah that Gazebo thing looks like an ideal solution, despite the look i'll get from the model as she's soaking and i'm all dry and toasty, perfik :)

Hi all, I've got a shoot coming up where the model wants to do it in the rain (no shortage of that about here atm). I've got a cover for my camera which makes it waterproof, that's fine, but was wondering what people were using for protecting their strobes (in this case 2xSB900's) from the...