first kind of attempt. deffinately not the final thing.

Experimenting with the photographs I took. Emma was a great model to use and didn’t fail to give me lots to work with. Thank you Emma, Much appreciated. :)

working to a specification made my life in some ways much easier and in otherways made me want to kill myself. it was like having a rush of creativity and not being able to grab hold of it until you have finished meeting the specifications. by which point youve forgotten what you wanted to do anyway. but in otherways working to a specification made me work harder and be more specific to individual points. obviously not all the points of the specification were made as i disagreed with many of the things i was asked to do. and if i disagree im not about to do it anyway if it isnt going to improve the photograph. for instance straightening of her nose and things like this i actually believe decreased the personality and character of the photographs. but she wouldnt realise this as she was looking at what she wanted and not what she saw.

heres another picture of my girlfriend that i never put up.

everyone is always critical of work they have produced. in my position i believe sometimes i am over critical, but that is how you push yourself to get better. i look at these pictures of my girlfriend often, and they just werent good enough for me to be happy with, so ive had another go at editting this particular photograph.

tada

original image

colour edditted

black and white edditted

Balaclava

"In December drinking hochata, I'd look physcotic in a balaclava."

I had another go at the zombie 2 face cos i figured the first one wasnt good enough for me to be happy with it, so this is attempt two. it still isnt perfect and its still got a long way to go, but its better that attempt number one.

i took some photos of this dead bird i saw as it was covered in lady birds which i found ironic. they came out as some really interesting photographs. and then there was a bone totally stripped accept for the foot.

first of many skate pics.

Ashwell skate park

the other bypass bridge shots.

the rest of the sunrise images.

Here are the other images that I didn't get around to putting up until now of the sunrise set.

Just trying something out with my camera with the height angles and lighting and the likes, and i took 10 or so similar images of this shot, but i quite liked this one, it works much better than the others.

chilling in the sun

Ben and Ellie are two good friends of mine. i said lets take some pictures and so we did. these are just a couple and ill put some more up once ive edditted. the vespa is awesome and thats why its part of the images.

mugshots

I'm starting a mini project for myself to do over this last term to keep myself active and give myself something to do physically. so ive decided to create mugshots of my friends. mainly for the summer trip to newquay as just part of the laugh to remember it by, but also cos it gives me an excuse to do some potentially intense portraits of my friends, which for once theyre willing to model for. so far this is my little brother just as a tester shot to see how it might look, the boards missing numbers and the backboards missing numbers and so on, its not perfectly edditted either but it gives you the idea of what im going for.

As a person, im not much of a sleeper. When it gets to half four in the morning and you can see this beautiful sunrise developing and you may not get the chance to really experience this strange beauty if you dont go right now, you just have to go out leave your cup of tea behind and hope to come back with some good pictures.

i was really chuffed that morning, going out at half past four listening to my iPod at full volume and singing at the top of my voice just because i could. i spent about an hour out and these are some of what i came out with. it was absolutely magnificent and if my bad sleeping pattern results in a sky like this, i dont think i mind not sleeping.