Studio Equipment/Loan to ADAPS.

[cameraclix]

Dear Members

I hope you're all well, I'm still getting over the positive comments following my talk to your club. It's a rarity that a lecturer gets such positive feedback but then I thoroughly enjoyed the session too!

My ongoing "studio downsizing" came to head this week as my landlord gave me less than 12 hours to clear my studio...it's been a stressful few days! However, I had some equipment that I had offered for sale but which simply wasn't moving fast enough for me in the current recessive climate thus I would like to give it to your club on a semi-permanent "loan" basis. I'm not anticipating a time when I would need it back but it is "loaned"...just in case I do. However, if you're club doesn't want to keep the gear but knows someone who would like to buy it...then lets all chat together and work something out.

Pam Vose came over this afternoon and has taken the gear which comprises of:

*A Bowens Quad generator (& cables) with 2kW and 1.5kW heads, reflectors and a snoot
*A Lastolite lighting tent
*A Lastolite 90cm x 90cm x 90cm white cubelite
*An almost new Royal blue roll of Calumet background paper
*An almost brand new Manfrotto boom arm & sandbag
*A small portaflash head & snoot that I use with the boom
*A focussable spotlight gobo to fit an elinchrome light (or any other with gaffer tape!)
*A large Bowens Lighting cone for still life/macro/product photography
* and a few other little bits & pieces.

One of your members is a wood-turner...his website's photography could benefit greatly from the cubelite or lighting cone...please ask him to get in touch with me if he would like me to show him how to use these to his advantage. Few amateurs find "still life" an exciting area of photography, even though it comprises the bulk of marketing photography that surrounds/influences them in their lives. To take exciting still life you have to know the laws of lighting and then be brave enough to break a few rules....yet if you can master this art, you should be able to apply the same mental processes to any other type of photograph. This is the reason why most photography courses START with still life.

If any of you would like to be kept up to date with my studio, my occasional giveaways and my photoschool events & tips newsletter, could I please ask you to sign-up on my website (every newsletter you receive has an "unsubscribe" option at the bottom of the page, if you ever want to stop receiving these irregular newsletters) http://www.j27photoschool.com. You can also view a short video download of me teaching Portrait Photography at Macclesfield Camera Club.

I do hope that you will graciously accept this little gift as i would prefer that they are used rather than being dumped in a skip or my attic!

Keep in touch & Kind Regards

John Lyons
Cameraclix & GirlzART
Tel: 07946 477 005

[John]

Thanks John, the thought is much appreciated. We'll see what can be used and , as you say, much better in use than stowed away for that rainy day that never arrives!

[Paul Jones]

Hi John and THANK-YOU!
This is very much appreciated.

[Lee Bold]

Hi John i'm the woodturner who has one of these cube light boxes but hasn't really got round to trying it but any tips and tricks would be much appreciated. I have 3x300w studio lights to use on it if thats any use. Maybe then i'll get round to finishing me website.
And on another note the wife was so impressed by your images she's posed for me, and even though she won't let me put them on the forum were happy with them.
Thanks again
Lee

[Tracey McGovern]

Hi John

I think I speak for everyone at the club when I say a BIG THANK YOU for all the items you have donated (on loan), it was very thoughtful and kind of you to think of us and to trust us with these things which I'm sure will get put to good use.

I never got the chance to thank you also for the presentation you did. It was a real eye opener for me once I initially got over the shock of some of the props you use (ie freezing cold chains), my first thought was "oh my god those poor women". But since that night I have thought about those images alot so they have definitely made an impression on me and all of your models are real women who have been happy to pose for you. All of your images were done with such sensitivity and many of them were anonymous to the viewer. I liked that they had not been tampered with in Photoshop which shows real talent from you and there is nothing wrong with women having flaws which can be more endearing and beautiful that trying to portray someone as perfect, so for that reason alone I applaud your work.

Thanks again.
Best Wishes
Tracey

[cameraclix]

Thanks Tracey

In your message you've captured the entire essence of what I'm all about "True Beauty" and "Beauty from within" rather than having to live up to the expectations of a society which is seemingly lead by marketeers and celebrity perfection. If only more women could be proud of what they've got and if more men could value them for themselves rather than just their bodily attributes....oops, I'm developing into a sermon!

...so, have you got a chain in the freezer now?

Kind Regards

John