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Just in from work and thought I might update this, seen as I haven't in ages. A couple of days ago I went out with tom and got a shot of his mamiya 645e, which is medium format, I'd never used one before and only shot 1 roll of ilford fp4, but this is one of the shots I got from it, and I'm really happy with it, now to try and find something to do on a little to no budget tonight. :) x

Queensferry

Took a wee trip to South Queensferry yesterday, it was pretty decent.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21327804@N05

Decent Day....

Spent the whole day pretty much taking photo's it's been pretty good, Went for a walk down almondale country park with the missus and the camera, got some decent photo's but my camera is begining to drive me mental, it's just not that great anymore. need a new one desperatley, someone buy me a D80?

After this I was about set for the idea of a night in with the football, got textin tom and we decided to go do a shot for his draded unit, which involved me sitting at the side of linlithgow loch, having a fag and playing guitar, can't wait to see the results of this, shot on 5x4 film. it was an amazing sky and I had brought my camera but forgot the SD card so got a shot of Tom's camera and this is what i came out with:

I have just reached my monthly bandwidth on flickr. I need a pro account. x

Final Day

Using anything and everything as a tri-pod. x

New York - Day 5

Day 5, and my photographs are getting weird. haha this one is a bit strange, looks like some sort of 50's thing, taken through a window on the staten island ferry, didnt take much photographs today, took the oppertunity to go shopping for a wee break, got myself a nice wee polo at topman in soho. minted.

New York - Day 4

Probably not the most productive today of photographing, however it was decent day. I went to soho and grenwich village, which I have decide I will live one day. So cool. and got the above photo of the Friends building. which I like as a photo, and a bit of a novelty that it is where they filmed Friends, cos it was epic. Anyway this part of the city was really nice cos it's a bit quiter than main manhattan, which i now hate, the people there have no pationce or charm. Fuckin' Wanks. Anway today has been tireing so I'm gona have a beer and go for a fag.

"how I wish, how I wish you were here"

x

New York - Day 3

Today was probably the most successfull so far, Easter Sunday in NY is very weird, and I took full advantage of that to go and do some documentary style work on Digital and Film. They shut of about 4 blocks and had people wandering about with weird hats on and stuff, dressed up and all kinds of things, and this is a couple of the ones I managed to snap.

As per, loads more on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21327804@N05

New York - Day 2

Today has been really good, wandere around again, and found "the center of photography" which was a really cool place, and had a lot of work of New York in the 60's and 70's seeing this and loving, the camera went on black and white, the film camera came out and off i went to try and do some of that, which turned out quite cool. hit times sqaure, and radio city and this is what came of it, really love the radio city shot. and pretty much plan on moving to new york.

1 more on flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/21327804@N05/

New York- Day 1

My jet lag is beyond a joke, it's technically like 2am right now but im still up, just back from an afternoon/evening of wandering the streets and back street cafe's.

As always better quality on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21327804@N05

Still Life.

Today I shot part of my still life project for college, It had to be an object which was glass or reflective, so I choose a bottle of beer and after the first bottle I tried didn't work because of various things I went to Asda and found this bottle of Grolsch which I think works quite well.�

Potential...

After a fairly informative day at college today, on my way home I noticed these clouds in the sky mmaking weird patterns, I usually hate photographs of sky's but these shapes reminded me of a photograph of something i'd seen by Trent Parke. So out came the camera. And after an afternoon spent looking at black and white photos, this one was only gona go one way, I quite like it, quite strange and not ususally my thing, but not bad for a photo taken for the sake of it.

Killing Time....

Myself and Ross got bored waiting on the schuh award giving to begin..

Shambles.

So last night I had to shoot this event that was on at the college, Which involved 8 schools using there art and design classes to create shoes out of all sorts of stuff. and they would get entered into a competition run by Schuh, the shoe store, and this was where the announced the winners. There were 4 of us doing it, and we were required to shoot all 8 schools as a group in the studio, a montage of photographs of the different shoes, a photo of every winner going up and getting there certificate, and a group of 35 at the end. This was far from easy, we were sitting about until half 6, when it had been dead for hours, then all of a sudden everyone turned up at ones, which meant we had about half an hour to get 8 schools in and out of the studio. Impossible, Myself and Ross managed to get 2, but then i had to leave as they were starting and had to get some shots of some men in suits making speaches, riviting stuff. In the end we only ended up getting 6 schools, before they started announcing prizes, and with teachers who are unable to shut there mouth for 5 seconds in your ear 24/7 it does not help. So we just set to getting the shots of the winners, when low and behold flash guns start falling right left and center, so we need to start chaning batteries. all the while we can't really get any good shots because the lighting is so bad. and to top it all of, the woman we asked to announce the fact that the 35 winners have to stay behind forgot, so we eneded up with about 20. Not our fault, hers. All in all a very stressfull evening.

Couple more on my flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21327804@N05

Here come's the sun......

Hopefully this sunny weather is here to stay cos im loving it.
On the way back from brickworks I went through the fields to get back to mine to see if i get some more shots, not for any reason apart from the fact that it's been a while.
This is the best of the lot, I really like this shot, its not often i do anything really landscape related but when I do, I do quite like it. as long as it goes to plan. haha. Now im off to get some lunch and hopefully enjoy the sunshine, before a mission of a day tommorow, school kids, about 200 photos, and chaos all day.

I really hate the quality of photographs on this for a decent quality one go to my flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21327804@N05

Graded Unit

So there is some ridiculous open day on the go at college today, so I think pretty much everyone bailed. I decided to try and shoot some of my graded unit which is on urban decay. so i headed for the brickworks, where Tom was doing a model shoot, at the same time. I think that actually is everyone's favourite places these days. Anyway I went down there with the mind set of getting at least 1 shot completly different to any iv ever got down there before, and any i've ever seen from down there. And this is what i came up with, a decent effort, but this shoot was really just to fire off some test shots, nothing is set in stone yet. but i did get a good few ideas from roaming around that place again.

Stealing Photos

From Toni's camera.
need somewhere to put them so i can get them when I'm home

This is how my new year went.....

From my room to the dread(full)nought. good times.

10th march.

Today has been extremly boring, I went out to take some photos but it just wasnt happening, so I went to college to print off some of my portraiture stuff instead sadly this also failed as none of the printers were working. It's just not been a good day, however i did get some of my evaluation done in college, But then had to wait a bloody hour on a bus, First is the worst company ever. And this of all days is the day i try and cut down on smoking. gutted.
All in all its been a pretty boring day though, I cant wait till these deadlines are over and I can start going out in the middle of the week again. Group shot tommorow, hopefully all goes to plan, and and a bit more evaluating and im done, Now im off to see Antonia and have a boaring night in seen as i canny go out in the middle of the week.

I even made these low res jpegs and the quality is still shit on here
I took these ages ago:

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I think this might turn into a place where I just ramble about anything....

Completely Unrelated...

Listen to British Sea Power



One of my favourite bands at the moment, and amazing live.

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Sitting in my bedroom with the snow battering against the window. It's getting a bit old now eh?
Anyway yesterday I redone one of my corporate photos, the one I done of the head teacher at toronto primary I hated it so much so I went to my dads work and shot a completly different type of photograph. I am much happier with this one, I like the use of props, It is much better window lit than the last one, And this is turning out to be quite a decent unit for me, I now have 5 out of 6 shots that im happy with, Trust it to be portraiture eh?

I also just realised how different photographs get when you upload them on this, they go so much lighter, wierd, Anyway you get the idea.