Last night i went round to a very good mate of mine's in Manchester. After a few beers the camera came out and so we had a mess around.
Here are a couple of images - the making of the idea, and the finished image…
Ronin Ryu Atemi JuJitsu, Martial Arts Club.
A mate of mine runs a martial art club in Blackpool. I loved the idea of trying to catch some natural shots of the guys, and girl - doing they're thing.
I didn't want to use a flash on this shoot so I could fit in better and try to be unnoticed.
Scot who runs the Club is a fantastic teacher, very clear and puts things into perspective, so everyone can understand.
The people who train there are great, there are no egos,
all just want to train hard and enjoy it.
Scot runs self-defence and fitness classes also.
Car Shoot with Dom.
Through a friend, i have met a photographer called Dominic,
He has some fantastic ideas and some very well exicuted work.
We decided to hook up and have a play with our cameras, he has a love for car photography and so i cleaned up the car. It was interesting to see how he views things.
i always find it interesting to talk to the educated photographers. As i am self taught, its nice to see how they tick.
This was a fun day, the fish eye'd picture was taken right on Preston North End's football ground. We turned up and asked the girl on reception, that we are students and for a project, can we shoot a car there.
This is something i think can be used time and time again.
Here are a couple of shots from the day.
Lee has Discovered PHOTOSHOP!
As anyone who is looking to improve their photography, will at some stage came to the cross road, where you have to decide,
how and what to use to edit your images.
After much reading as there are hundreds of programmes out there, some free, some mega expensive. What offers you what.
I chose the Adobe Photoshop brand, there are many versions, and different programmes, but I am a big believer in buying what you can to try and limit the need to upgrade at a later stage. So I went for Photoshop CS4 and im over the moon.
Well, I say over the moon lightly, its more frightened feeling to be honest, you sit there download the programme and it opens, oh my!
Now what do I do?
There are a million of settings, boxes, tools....
hmmm I think a book is going to be needed for this or a Degree course Ha!.
I would strongly recommend downloading Podcasts, they are free and offer some fantastic tuition,
if not there are various magazines out there, books all sorts on the photoshop software.
Here are a couple of pictures of me playing about on Photoshop, i took the first image trying to be smart and have a photo of lots of me, but that evening out in a bar, a mate suggested a picture of trying to give yourself a head lock...
Aaaarrrgghhhh,, you cant throw a curve ball at me like that!
and so hung over the next morning, all i could think about was to try and create this shot,
and so here is me - giving myself a head lock :0)
A couple of Shots from Manchester.
Here are a couple of images that I have taken.
I have seen many versions of the light trails and wanted to give it a try, the lights are not that pin sharp, as I would have liked and so I will definitely revisit this idea at a later time.
Out and About Manchester.
I am Currently Living in Manchester, right in the centre which is fantastic, in the days my house mate works, and so trying to learn and take better shots, (like us all) i walk about town, trying to find cool things to shoot.
here are a few image
i hope you enjoy.
Its Christmas and i have just treated my self to a DSLR camera
Well Christmas is here with us once again,
While browsing over all the websites and shops, for presents for my loved ones, I thought it's finally time to bite the bullet and buy a dSLR.
Ive been a Canon IXUS point and shoot user for many years now and have upgraded a couple of times.
Now on facebook people are uploading images which just make me envious, as they are producing images which are well out of the baby IXUS's league.
With being a Canon user for years I was toying with the idea of a dSLR from them, but a few people have been raving about the Nikon brand, without getting into a Debate, Canon Vs Nikon, I have opted for the Nikon D90, and guess what?? I LOVE it!!
She came with the 18-105mm kit lens.
Here are a couple of images where im trying to get to grips with all the millions of settings, buttons and dials.
