Photo Project 1, 5 Shades of White

Really lost interest with this one... any B+W picture is surely shades of white, there was a lot of snow a few weeks ago and I got a bit carried away trying to capture it melting... but it was hard to work into a single picture.

 

So here's a simple picture of lots of white, which has shades. (From left to right) My brother, our Dad and myself up a mountain skiing for my brother's stag do back in January.

This was a rare chance to get a photo in-between blizzards! And the 10second timer was a real challenge, as I refused to take my skis off.

Oh, and heres a prettier landscape picture from the same trip... looking down on the valley as we descended down the windy road in the French taxi with so many flashing warning lights it looked like the Vegas strip (including the ABS). Anyway, photography came up as a subject of conversation and he pulled over for me to take this shot.

Business Cards...

This week I've been working on a batch of business cards, it went through a few concepts and I was really grateful for all the feedback I got from friends.

1. Ring and information, taken from this picture.

2. Confetti with information, taken from this picture.

3. Without the background to keep it clean and tidy.

 After a couple of days of pondering and suggestions from friends I ended up with these

Top is the front and below is the back of the card.

The front no longer has any information on it and i made the text easier to read with a simple outline. On the reverse I tidied up the information, removing the "Tel", "Web" and "Email".

In-between these screen shots and sending it off to the printers I brought the logo swirl in by 5%, as I know printers often muck up the edges... It'd annoy me if it got trimmed off.

Photo Project 1, 4. Diptych

Day 4 in the photo project was "Diptych or Triptych" for the full list of days click here. I Tried a couple of things for diptych, after looking it up in the dictionary (apparently two paintings attached on hinges and well I'm fresh out of these).

However, I do have a great little 3D date saver for my brothers wedding - which he drew himself.

 
The lego ninja lives in there, he's not really relevant.

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, 2. Simplicity.

It was nearly coffee... I've got a cracking photo of a plant reflected in a black coffee. But I thought this would lead me down the track of trying to make all 24 pictures coffee related. My heart can't take that amount of caffeine.

Instead I decided smoke was quite simple (although capturing it is incredibly hard).

Taken with a black background and 2 flashes, 100m Macro, ISO-100, 1/60, F2.8. Again, a little tweaking of balances and the smoke/background was made B+W for extra contrast.

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.

Photo Project 1

 I've dabbled with themed pictures before, but never tried a whole project from a list of themes found online. B was looking at one the other day and I thought I'd give it a go.

It's amazingly girly and vague, I'm really not looking forward to #4. But I thought It would be more of a challenge for all it's shortcomings.