Owen Boyd

Expert photography

In depth tuition

Stunning drone imagery

Tuition

A 1-2-1 course with Owen Boyd is what you need if you’re stuck on green auto and don’t know what f-stops and shutter speeds are all about! Or do you know the basics and are ready to take your photography to the next level?

I’m here to help!
Call or message me on 07930 391060 to arrange your lesson

I offer quick response drone inspections and high quality aerial photography, throughout the South East. 

High resolution, HDR stills and 4K video are my specialties. 

Close up roof inspection, landscape, estate agency work, 

creative projects….
Call or message me on 07930 391060 to arrange your job

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Owen Boyd Photography

Owen Boyd Photography

Finding the exceptional

I’m always looking for new techniques, new angles and new ways of revealing the visually unexpected. A friend walking his dog messaged me that there were glow worms by a local lake. I worked out a way to use diffused flash to illuminate the insect, and a long exposure with a high ISO to catch the glowing tail. Focussing was completely trial and error, checking the images and moving the camera on a slider to and fro.

I had no idea what a glow worm looked like until this.

Finding the groove

Whitstable, on Kent’s north coast, is a town of surprises. More oysters and gastro pubs than kiss me quick postcards and candy floss. As we walked along the sea path towards Margate, there was a group of dancers, playing salsa music and taking turns to strut their stuff. It was a group thing, but passers by stopped to admire their moves. 

This couple stood out, lost in the moment and in the groove. I used a long lens: partly so I could stand back, out of their way, but also to get the ‘flat’ look which works so well with people shots.

Salsa dancing couple at Whitstable. Shows use of long lens. Candid street photography

I was cycling back to London Bridge from a drone inspection job in East London, and the early evening view of the City became more and more spectacular. So I stopped on the Whitechapel Road and sent up the whirlybird. After a spell of dull rainy weather, the sky was perfectly clear as the sun went down, and the City sparkled. It was almost unworldly. One of the neat features of the Mini Pro 4 drone is that it lets you switch the camera from landscape to portrait. I took a sweep of shots and stitched them together in Lightroom.
I used to be dubious about HDR, as it often seemed to give unrealistic, hyper-colour photos. But with small sensor, high resolution drone cameras, it offers far better dynamic range. For this composite each shot was bracketed 0.7 stop +/-

Finding the light

Whitby Jet

Whitby Abbey may have fallen victim to Henry Vlll’s Dissolution of the Monasteries, but the ruins of the abbey have continued to be used by sailors as a landmark at the headland, and of course by photographers.
Why is decrepitude so photogenic?
It’s odd to think that no one could have these views, just a few metres above the ruins, until the advent of the drone camera.
Let Owen Boyd video your pile, up close and personal…