The somewhat natural organised chaos of the remains of a slate quarry. This is the original hill side but stripped for decent slate.
Slate Chaos
August 31st, 2010When I was testing the Sealskinz!
August 31st, 2010
The shot I was taking in the Sealskinz video.
Clear Cadair Idris
August 30th, 2010
Sunny Cadair from Craig Magee on Vimeo.
So finally seem to have got a bit of luck with this commission shooting Cadair Idris. The weather gods decided to give me a break in the cloud for a few hours and I made the most of it. According to the locals its pronounced Cader!!! I need to learn some welsh.
Ogwen Valley and Tryfan
August 23rd, 2010
Untitled from Craig Magee on Vimeo.
Video from a recent trip to Ogwen Valley / Nant Ffrancon to start a book project on North Wales that I’ve had in mind for a while. Don’t want to give to much away yet, but should be a really nice project.
I got two out of the three shots I wanted that day, the rain interrupted the third. All of them involved some pretty awkward shooting positions but this one was the trickiest, requiring balancing the tripod, and myself, between three rocks.
Definitely going to be a fun project .
Making use of the Sealskinz
August 5th, 2010
Untitled from Craig Magee on Vimeo.
What you don’t quite get in this video is that I’m perched on a couple of rocks on the sides of the river flow, feet are totallysubmerged in cold Welsh river water! The middle is knee deep! totally buying some of the longer socks. Question is normal black ones or the olive and grey ones they make for the tweed brigade!?
Grey Grey Wales
August 5th, 2010Well I’ve had this commission to shoot of Cadair Idris for the last month and annoyingly most of that time its been cloudy and wet! I went today with Sherpa Paul (!!) with high hopes and… well… see below!
GREY CADAIR from Craig Magee on Vimeo.
Pistyll Rhaeadr
July 21st, 2010
Bottom part of Pistyll Rhaeadr, highest waterfall in Wales.
Socks? yeah Socks!
July 19th, 2010One of my favourite bits of kit at the moment are my Sealskinz socks!
Might seem a bit odd that I’m not talking about a lens or tripod, but when your up to your ankles in a cold North Wales river, the fact your feet are nice and dry makes you a happy snapper. This is even better when your in the car with soaking wet shoes and your toes are all warm and toasty instead of freezing cold.
They are even fine to wear in the summer as the merino wool liner wicks sweat away.
I’ve got two pairs and would happily buy more. At £20ish quid they may seem expensive for socks, but for me, having happy feet makes them worth every penny.
(excuse the crappy iphone pic but was feeling lazy)
Manchesters CJC
June 24th, 2010
Couple of shots from trip to Manchester of the awesome CJC building. Why can’t Liverpool have architecture this interesting??
5DmkII vs 4×5 neg
June 18th, 2010
Recently while shooting some new stuff for BaaBar I took a quick shot with the 4×5 on Portra 160nc. Thought it would be interesting to compare to the 5D. Not a particularly scientific test but it shows some interesting stuff. 5×4 is at the top by the way.
Check out the differences in the red light boxes, the Canon has some weird stuff going on were you can see the placement of the tubes as yellowy hotspots! I’ve not been able to get rid of them unless the image is massively underexposed. I’m guessing its to do with the spectral response of the 5D’s chip and its seeing more than the naked eye!
Click the images for larger versions on Flickr.