Continueing cafe culture....

Bulking up my project a bit, seen as ross had some along to linlithgow with us today to shoot some cafe culture stuff I thought i'd take the oppertunity, to bulk mine up a bit and get rid of the shots i wasnt to keen on hopefully, So after convercing over a cup of tea we got the cameras out and this is what i came away with. 2 shots that i think work really well in black and white, especially the top one with the lights going off into the distance out of focus, looks really good in my opinion, so turned out to be a right good day.

Good times....

The end of block 2 is actually in sight, and I'm almost done, Today i went through to my dad's work to do a corporate photograph, the second of my 2, however the first will very possiblly be getting re-shot. This one had to be lit with flash so Tom and Ross came through to give me a hand, Thanks to Tom for this one, he's a wizz with a flash gun,
cardboard and a bit of velcro. haha. Shot in one of the conerence rooms, at f.8 and a shutter of 1/200 of a second. I think it works quite well and one of the better of my portraiture unit so far.

Finally....

I have finished my cafe culture project, Went to glasgow today, to take a trip down ashton lane, because there are loads of nice pubs and cheeky cafe's. Went into this one called "The Lane" who were a bit sketchy about taking photos, but eventually i got away with it and managed to get the last few shots I needed to fiish this, The project didnt quite turn out as good as i wanted but ther are a few quite strong shots in it, and a few that are definatley making up the numbers tbh. but oh well, has to be done, These are a couple of the ones that I'm really quite happy with, a bit different to the other ones I had taken in resteraunts and pubs, so adds a bit of variation to my project, Now I just have a bit of colour calibration, and a couple of portraits which should be taken care of tommorow, and block 2 is done,thank god!

Almost there....

The final slog of this portraiture unit, and today I shot my school portrait, pretty standard, but it had to be done, got my little brother in to do it. I used a standard 2 light set up one with a softbox over it the other with an umberealla. I am still hating this project to be honest, portraiture just does nothing for me, and this was probably the worst of the lot, horrible backdrop, Model has to be very formal, no creative outlet with this shot what so ever, however what has to be done has to be done.
I decided to take a shot of the studio set up today aswell, bit more creative than a school portrait....

Once Again

Cafe Culture this time, which is what we all intended to go and shoot, sadly this didnt go as well as shooting architecture did, however i did get some shots I am really pleased with a couple of the shots i got, this one being the first, completly unplanned, sitting in the advocat having a sly pint, and had the idea of something like this, the lighting in there was pretty poor so it had to be shot over by the window, however I think it works really well, having the glass and hand in focus with Ross in the background out of focus, almost like a Magners advertisement.

This is the second of the photographs that I am really happy with, This one was shot after Tom managed to blag us into a hotel resteraunt called "The International" very edgy the whole time we were in there, they clearly didn't want us to be but said yes for some reason, so it was a case of set to it and get out as quick as possible, What I like about this shot, is how the outside of the restaurant is in view, and you can see the castle, which is a really nice touch, which i think works well being out of focus with the wine glass being the main focus of the image. All in all one of the most successfull days of photography in a long time.

Architecture....

Went very well today got a few good shots, enough to finish off this project in fact, Tom kindly drove myself Ross and Swalker, to edinburgh to shoot the museum for what is hopefully the final time as I am sick of the fire alarm going off in that place, we got a belter of a day for it, clear skies and blinding sunlight, Good times. This photograph is one of my favourites from the architecture side of things, so simple but yet very effective I think, very thankful for the sky in this, could have been a very boring image had it not been so kind to me.




The other 2 images are a couple of the first i took today, so I think i got off to a good start, needing some strong exterior shots for this project as i already had about 5 interior ones. I thought i'd focus mainly on this round building at the front as it is alot more interesting to look at than alot of the rest of the building, really happy with how these shots turned out in the end, good times all round.

Very successfull day....

Today after a trip to Edinburgh with Ross, Scott and Tom, I hit the studio to do my high key portrait, which my girlfriend modeled for (Thank you Toni). It went quite well again, portraiture not being my strong point, however I am quite pleased with the outcome of this one, A 5 light set up was never going to be easy but thanks to some help from Ross setting up the studio, and alot of fiddling with lights during the shoot I did get there in the end, and the fact that I showed my lecturer the photo after, who is a man hard to please, said it worked. So for that I am thankfully and hopefully the final slog of this portraiture uint goes as well as this did. Taken at f18 with a shutter speed of 1/125 and iso at 200.