Say Cheese! – West Country agricultural photography

I was recently sent to do some agricultural photography for a magazine on a dairy farm in the West Country. Cows are very inquisitive animals and once they know you are friendly they soon start sniffing around you with their wet slobbery mouths. As I got down to taking photographs I made the mistake of leaving my camera bag slightly open for a few minutes only to return to find a camera and a couple of lenses coated in a thick layer of cow drool. After wiping of the worst of the slobber I managed to get a ‘portrait’ of this beauty.

Say Cheese!

Say Cheese!

Shooting video with a stills camera

Over the years I have often been asked if I ever shoot video in addition to stills, I have never been able to justify the additional expense of yet another camera system and a continuous lighting kit so have had to turn the work down. My degree was in Film, Video and Photographic Art so I know a little about the other media. I have also noticed that my recent new cameras have had a button that says ‘Video’ so feel that while I could never claim to be a filmmaker I might be able to offer clients video clips to accompany the stills I normally supply.
To properly take advantage of the video features I have had to modify my nice ergonomically designed camera into an alien beast with extra holders, microphones and focussy things. The footage that the camera takes though is beautiful, the shallow depth of field produced gives a polished high quality look which works particularly well with food work.

You can see examples of some of my short films in the video section.

My camera fitted with radio microphone, follow focus, rig and viewer.

My camera fitted with radio microphone, follow focus, rig and viewer.

Image digitisation service

We have recently launched a digitisation service for flat, two dimensional and three dimensional objects for museums, galleries, artists and other collections.

Digitisation with copy stand
Digitisation with copy stand

With several years of experience digitising and supporting collections in undertaking digitisation projects we are now offering a full consultancy service.

Services include

  • Flat original digitisation (scanning or photography)
  • Glass plate negatives and magic lantern slide capture
  • Three dimensional object capture (photography)
  • Small objects e.g. coins, watches, medals, jewelery etc.

Onsite training

  • Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom training
  • Creating a media rich website for free!
  • Digitisation, photography and scanning
  • NEW Getting started with your iPad

Clients include the National Trust and Transco.

We were very happy to work with Nigel as he provided a flexible and high quality learning experience.

He was able to tailor the training to our specific needs which proved to be a valuable and cost effective solution.

We look forward to working with Nigel again in the future.” National Trust-Picture Library

Free Photoshop training videos

I have been producing photoshop training videos demonstrating Photoshop editing for digitisation clients and students of a few years. I have placed all of the videos in one place for anyone who is interested. You can find them at www.nigelgoldsmithmedia.wordpress.com .

I have taught at Bristol University, Bath University, Gloucestershire University, Coventry University, the National Trust and the BBC as well as numerous other organisations and individuals. If you would like on-site Photoshop, Lightroom or digital photography training do give me a call on 07973 631185

Photoshop training videos

My Photoshop training video site

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