Seduced by Light: A photographic journey of light and shadow

Lensbaby Composer and Creative Aperture Kit… For those of you that don’t know what a Lensbaby is, it is a fully manual creative selective focus lens with interchangeable aperture disks, there are various flavours of the Lensbaby and several different lens options, each having its own particular quirks, also there are 2 aperture kits that …

Halogen Vs LED Cree spotlights, playing with light colour… 2 million candle power spotlight: It’s been a while since I last posted anything, but there is a fair bit in the wings, including a post that outlines some of my most used light-painting kit, what it does and why I use each one for a …

Paint it Light: Lightpainting… On a recent night excursion with Stu Luddite88 Hyland we went to a localish location with some interesting abandoned buildings and the obligatory array of torches, tripods and shutter releases to seek out something a bit different from the well known Scottish Landmarks, the intention always to take something that is …

Winter is Coming… Winter is coming and the days are getting short, It’ll soon be time to recharge the torch, So don’t be winging about the cold dark nights, Now I can go and make my own light. Balvaird Castle, near (ish) to Perth… On a spontaneous, lets go out its only midnight and play …

Final Resting Place… I close my eyes to see your face That’s how I see you from this place With my finger your soul I trace Remembering you in all your grace. Copyright © Simon Pole 2011 As with most of the posts here, this post will have an accompanying image, however it does not …

Revamped… Not really so much of a redesign, as the format is basically the same, a simple, that works layout , just bringing it a little more up-to date and modern within a network of my other sites, to incorporate an internal blog which will hopefully be easier to maintain and update than the previous …

Charmed Forest… OK so technically this could be anywhere, but it is in Scotland, so it counts, this was shot in the grounds of Loch Awe Hotel in September 2008, it was total darkness and a little unnerving with all the creaking trees etc. So anyway, the main scene was lit with a 2 million …

The effects of Day, Night and Different Light Eilean Donan Castle, Scotland… Eilean Donan Castle is probably one of Scotland iconic castles and is a well known landmark on the road route to the Isle of Skye. Possibly also well known as the castle used in the 1980′s movie, Highlander. And takes its name from …

A year in pictures… Just over a year ago, Chrissie and I met after several months of random passing of comments and mutual admiration of one another’s work. On our very shoestring budget most of what we have done wouldn’t have been possible under the normal model/photographer process as we mostly just go out for …

Ruthven Barracks, Kingussie, Scotland Ruthven Barracks with available floodlighting This was shot approximately 12 hours after my first attempt, previous post, this time at dusk as the light was falling, the barracks are floodlit but only on one end, which doesn’t make for much interest and only a small portion actually lit. Also with little …

First attempt at landscape lightpainting… Dawn by Torchlight: My first attempt was early morning, well most would probably call it the middle of the night, 4am start, because I was away and couldn’t sleep. Anyway this was shot before the sun had risen, but there was a light in the sky, although not much, the …

Lighting Scotland Back in September 2006 I attended a mini LightPainting tutorial lead by David McAleavy of LightPainting.org who I had met a couple of times at social events in Glasgow, I had admired his work since I first came across it in early 2005, having had a few plays with the technique, I was …

On Location with Katy T I know this blog title will get me in trouble, but hey I just couldn’t resist it. Saving Trees Anyway it has been 18 months since Kate and I last worked together and 2 years since we were on location, but there weren’t any trees about at that time, its …

Interview with Chrissie Red. Recently Chrissie had an Interview with Jan Murphy on the Univers d’ Artistes Blog. Very interesting and insightful and worth a read, you can read the Chrissie Interview here.  

Lightpainting on the Isle of Skye… As well as our model/photographer collaborative work Chrissie and I also dabble with joint photographic projects, which fits in well with Chrissie’s other interest, photography, something I am keen to explore with her. Both of these images are difficult to get right, having two lighting at once is interesting …

Skye and Moody Sky, Art Nude and Waterfalls… Skye: Day 1, arrival. As Chrissie has already bolgged Skye is at best tricky for doing location nudes due to its popularity, however we did manage to have a fairly productive trip in which we clocked up a respectable 951 miles in total. I met Chrissie in …

Trip to the Isle of Skye… Chrissie and I will be taking a trip up to Skye over the Weekend, I’m sure this will result in some decent photographic ventures and no doubt some random adventures. Chrissie wanted to stay in one of the Wigwams (which look pretty cool) at Portnalong on the west coast …

Aberdeenshire and Boddam lighthouse… OK to be fair this doesn’t really have much to do with our collaboration other than the fact that I took Chrissie up to Aberdeen to shoot with Sam Brill, whilst I wandered off for the day to shoot some landscapes or well whatever really, so off I went to Boddam …

Out and About Searching for Snow Snow Window. Yesterday Chrissie and I took a wee jaunt further north, for reasons best known to ourselves, in search of snow and somewhere even colder than we are normally used to. This is was the first shot of the day in a ruin that we came across, pretty …

Digital Double Exposure Without software Assistance… Experimental/concept shot. Model movement in total darkness, single frame, dual in camera exposure on digital. The shutter was open and two flash fires, the point being solely to recreate digitally the same/similar effect of a dual exposure on film, which of course under normal conditions is not possible with …