Photo Project 1, 24. Traditional or Lifestyle

Lifestyle? Well I thought about picturing my other half, she runs her penny saving themed blog and regularly returns with items she's reclaimed from charity shops and the like, but this seemed a little too obvious.

How about feeding pigs wearing black tie? Seems like a lifestyle choice to me.

The only change from the original was saturating the colours.

This picture is of a gentleman referred to as Mutley, who was hosting a wedding reception on his farm – naturally the pigs still need feeding regardless of attire. The wedding was of the lovely couple Kate &Rob Crothers. 

Photo Project 1, 20. Self Portrait

I've got a feeling this has been covered off before in a post about the 10 Second Challenge - basically you set the timer on the camera and run to be in shot, some of the mores tricky locations for this were on the end of the Grand Canyon or on top of the Death Valley sign (the silly footwear was on account of American Airlines deciding to send my shoes (and rest of clothes) on a tour of the states without me).

Also on that previous post was me staying very still in a river... well I've taken that picture and added it to a few more to make a panoramic.

Photo Project 1, 19. Light and Dark

Light and dark meaning Silhouettes?

Photo Project 1, 18. Texture or Pattern

Its a pattern, amazingly complicated... and normally dogs don't stay still enough to notice this detail. Luckily for me Jazz was fast asleep at the time.

Photo Project 1, 17. Mirror or Window

Well out the window it was pretty rainy, sadly the view out of our windows is onto an office car park... which is only entertaining when it's covered in snow.



So instead I have a pirate getting rained on.

Photo Project 1, 15. Sunlight

Sunlight, honestly?! Oh I'm loosing my rag with this project.

F13 1/250 ISO100 @ 34mm on a 400D with polarising filter.

This is possibly my favourite photo of all time (that I've taken anyway), it was taken on my old camera with what I'd class as a 'knock about' lens now... but it goes to show that being in the right place at the right time is often more important than the gear you have on you. The best camera for the job is the one you have with you... and other such expressions.

Infact I like this picture so much we have a variation of it printed on canvas and hung in the living room.

Photo Project 1, 14. Faceless Portrait

This is easy... B loves to hide behind things.

Enjoying last autumn (2011) in a national trust garden.

 Or here's me playing with a home-made light ring idea I had...

It looked a little like this:

It’s quite simple to do, just buy some cheap LED lights from Ikea and poke them through a piece of cardboard in a shape of your choosing, then cut a hole the right diameter for your lens of choice. While interesting to try, it's not really sensible outside the house.

Photo Project 1, 13 Mother Nature

Again, I picked this photo project because it was suitably vague and girly enough to present a challenge. Mother Nature could surely be nearly anything?! Well I'm guessing we're supposed to go down the weather route, and I don't enjoy photographing in the rain. So here is some water hitting a rock instead.

This actually turned into quite an expensive shot to get, a that tide of water coming in hit my tripod... and it's never been quite the same since it got salty water on it.

Photo Project 1, 3. Emotion.

Right, despite what I said on the last picture about avoiding coffee... it's back.

Colours tweaked and given a retro feel. Also, the heart was taken from a different photo as it lined up with the blank side of the mug - which was annoying.

Mug from here...

Heart from here

But for those of you who think a wedding photographer should have more emotional pictures than a mug of coffee I have a spare.

It's rare I change the picture ratio - but here it worked well cutting out the stained glass, bringing focus in to the newly weds (Matt & Olivia).

I struggled to re-edit these, as to be honest I'd played with every setting before hand... so if all else fails just make it look more vintage. For bucket loads more emotion visit my portfolio.

Photo Project 1, 1. Morning.

This was an easy one, morning was only ever going to be one thing with me... Coffee.

Taken for the project, just had the contrast played with a little and slight soft focus applied. Making it look a little more abstract.