Wednesday, 21 September 2011

A bit of background

It's been a long time since I finished my academic studies, if you can can call it academic. I studied photography many years ago and worked for some time as a food photographer. I was always interested in the new lighting techniques that appeared, in particular light painting. One of my tutors was Paul Wenham Clarke who did a lot of light painting at the time and won numerous awards for his work, Aaron Jones was also very active and marketed his Hosemaster system.

I'd had a few goes with Pauls lightbrush and seen him using it on several shoots so when I happened to be browsing Ebay one day I was amazed to see a full kit up for sale. I put in a very cheeky offer and the guy accepted. 3 days later the kit arrived in a very large box containing the following:


















Looking good I thought so further inspection revealled the following parts























This appears to be pretty much the full kit of parts that the company made, given that the company no longer exists this is a good thing!

Given that there's virtually no information on these systems I thought I would start this blog as no doubt other people have heard of these before
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2 comments:

  1. Steve Dreiseszun10 December 2011 at 07:10

    Hi,

    Found your blog after breaking my LightBrush 300 out of mothballs. Have you had any luck finding an alternative for the EZG lamp?

    Thanks!

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  2. Hairyduck20 December 2011 at 04:06

    Hi Steve,

    Not yet unfortunately, I managed to buy a couple of new ones off ebay at a decent price so these should last me a while. I'm busy trying to organise a new fibre optic cable replacement at the moment to overcome the yellow cast caused by light degredation. Once I have an update I'll add a new post

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