Paul Pichugin Fine Art Photography

The Old Pickup Truck

Paul — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:58:16 +0000

Tonight I headed out with Mark Stothard and Flemming Bo Jensen to photograph a truck that belonged to Glenn, a friend of Mark’s. There is quite an interesting story behind the truck too. This is from Mark’s blog (http://www.truenorthmark.com/blog/2012/02/02/a-step-back-in-time):

“Glenn originally refurbished it back when he was 17 and back then it was bright yellow. When he had a family, he sold it and only recently he set about finding it again, bought it back and then fully rebuilt the old girl one last time!”

I’ve gone for a bit of a stylised look, this is actually a composite of 42 images.

Thank you for inviting me along Mark, it was great to catch up again and it’s always great to have the Flembot around, couldn’t have done it without your exceptional umbrella holding efforts!

Regards

Paul Pichugin

Nanarup

Paul — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:11:19 +0000

I did an epic road trip with Leigh Diprose down to Albany and back in a day.. 10 hours driving in all! I got some pretty decent images considering it was such a quick trip.

This was taken at Nanarup, Western Australia, it was my first time there and there were less than ideal conditions.. but I’m really looking forward to heading back there and reshooting it!

I’ll have a few more images coming over the next couple of days.

Regards

Paul Pichugin

Tried out Leigh's 400mm lens with my 2x extender

Paul — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:01:43 +0000

taken from a very long way away.. it came out pretty sharp :)

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This image was taken and edited on my iPhone

Paul — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:11:37 +0000

I'm just testing posting from my phone to google+

I'm also testing if the plugin I installed on my #blog is working, if so this post should show up both on my blog as well as on Google+

Regards

Paul Pichugin
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York Portrait Workshops by Rob Heyman

Paul — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:09:36 +0000

Hey All,

Rob Heyman is coming across to Perth to give a portrait workshop in York! Rob Heyman is a triple master photographer with the Australian Institute of Professional Photography, awarded nationally and internationally for his unique and original portraiture and wedding photography. He has been keynote speaker in every state of Australia and New Zealand for AIPP, APPA, WIPM, NZIPP, Fuji, Kodak, Leica society and many laboratory sponsored educational sessions.

A long time fan of Rembrandt’s style of lighting, Rob uses this knowledge to great effect in his day to day portraiture. This has evolved into a style of candid portraiture that encompasses all types of lighting for many and varied subjects.

If you are interested in producing exceptional portraiture and learning the secrets of the business, make sure you book in to Rob’s workshop on the 20th of March, 2012. Further details and booking information can be found here: http://heymanevent.blogspot.com/2012/01/york-wa-workshop.html

Regards

Paul Pichugin

The Chase Continues

Paul — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:34:13 +0000

Yesterday I headed out with fellow photographer and mate Adrian Wayte to chase the rest of the storm, he was ticked off because I’d tried to get him to come out with me to photograph the lightning but didn’t make it. We decided to head north east and try to get in front of the storm as the most dramatic images are usually the front of the storm..

After covering quite a bit of ground we managed to find a nice hill directly in front of the storm, it was quite surreal coming out from under the storm where it was bucketing down with rain and fairly cool to out in the sun where it was close to 40 degrees celcius! We both hopped out of the car and started taking photos, watching the lightning hit, both of us had been discussing how to capture lightning during daylight.. neither of us had managed it before. I was really impressed with the cloud right on the front of the storm and was getting some images of it with the hills in the foreground:

As we were shooting there were a few lightning bolts.. it wasn’t until I got home much later that afternoon and checked out my images properly that I realised I had captured one of the bolts while shooting!

We kept exploring for the the morning and then headed home.. on the way home I got a few more shots.

There is a huge amount of lightning and storm activity inland at the moment, keeping an eye out on the radar to see if we get anything worth a trip to take photos of :)

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Regards

Paul Pichugin

Perth Lightning Storm Video

Paul — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:40:30 +0000

Hi All,

Here is the video from the lightning storm.. I’ve not included any sound with it as the wind destroyed any sound I recorded!

Regards

Paul Pichugin

Perth Lightning Storm 20th January

Paul — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:58:20 +0000

Last night we had one of the most active lightning storms I’ve ever seen in my life. Lightning was going off every half second at the most. I followed the storm from south of Perth out to the ocean and got some of the best photos I’ve ever taken of lightning. I also remembered to do some video.. I’ll have that up shortly.

Here are the photos:

All images are copyright Paul Pichugin, not to be used for commercial use with out my permission. Sorry I have to include that but a TV station has used my images with out credit / payment or permission previously.

I’ll have the video online shortly I hope!

Paul Pichugin

Storm Chasing

Paul — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:07:27 +0000

I wasn’t going to head out this afternoon… but when Adrian Wayte sent me a message saying he was heading out to get some photos, I just had to join him.. we travelled *all* over the country side, doing some location scouting for future trips, as well as getting some pretty decent photos. I’m very happy that I headed out as I got some images that I’m really happy with!

Thanks for driving today Adrian, was an awesome trip!

I’ll have a few more images up over the next few days, I’ve also got some news coming up shortly about the direction I’m headed with my photography!

Regards

Paul Pichugin

Albany Coastline

Paul — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 08:25:09 +0000

There is something very raw, rugged and untamed about the southern coastline, especially around Albany.

9 image stitch, Canon 5DmkII, Carl Zeiss 50mm f1.4

All comments appreciated

Regards

Paul Pichugin