THANK YOU!

I am so happy today... 

Its been one of them crazy days and I will get to Chinese New Years later but I just wanted to say thankyou so much for all of the suport that you have all given me of late.

My last image on facebook (The HDR you can see below) have had 38likes and 22 Comments and to add to that amazing thing, my blog just hit 10,000 hits! 

                         10,000 HITS

Can you believe that, wow! I am almost in awe of this and I just want to say thank you so much to everyone for showing the love and suport, It means so much to me

HDR Walk About

I was out today as I was smoked outa the flat by down stairs. Who think its a great idea to have a old oil burrle as a BBQ and stock it with wood from a wooden packing grate. So being up so early I went up town... Had a little look around the city to grab some images but did not really grab any great ones, I did happen to get a HDR image. 

High dynamic range imaging (HDRI or just HDR) is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range between the lightest and darkest areas of an image than current standard digital imaging techniques or photographic methods.

My 1st since I got my canon 7d and I do like it, It does lack a subject and a little bit of drama but I still like it.

Something for any of my Mindcraft reader

I just been looking through some of the videos done by the very telted guys at freddiew channel on YouTube... Enjoy!

Panting with light

As many of you know I am really into my photography, but some of you might not know what got me into it. Well it was something as simple as light!

I was always loving the DSI style of shooting people but it was always the backgrounds that made it for me, I hate watching raving images without some kind of play with light. I know that alot of photographs dont like to have them but I just think its a waste of a clubs good lighting not to use it!

I kinda knew how to use my camera to get that kinda of feel but I was no where near to mastering it, But soon after I got my 1st Dslr I was starting to use it for what I found out was called Light Panting Photography.

Now I have worked on this for a while but tonight I have been looking it up after hearing about a site that is dedicated to just this... and its called lightpaintingphotography.com. I know I was shocked at the name as well. Anyways I just wanted to give these guys a shout out as there doing some amazing stuff and I will be stelling some of there ideas in up coming shoots/Events!

This is a Youtube vid I found using this style of photography and I really liked it! ENJOY!

WaterDrops (20120123)

Its funny what you find out your travels...

I popped out the other week and saw a massive pain of glass (about .5m x 1.5m) and had an idea.

This week I used the glass pain to get some really interesting shots of a candle from a birds eye view, But I also used a fashion mag and my iPhone.

I placed the glass across 2 chairs and sprayed the glass with water, Placing my camera on a tripod on top of the glass and with a mix of skill, tech and luck I am very happy with some of the images I got.

Now some are edited and some are as shot with the camera... Lets see if you can guess what ones are witch!

LINK to the full set and please leave a comment on the ones you like or what ones you think are edited or fresh from the camera

Happy Birthday LRE - RIP!

Today was the 21st and that is a day in my family that comes with both good and bad memorys

This was my oldest brothers birthday. Lewis was born 15.30 on the 21/1/1980 and was the 1st born of my parents 3 sons. He had cardio dismorthey (a hole in the heart) and was only given a 50% chance he would see his 3rd birthday and would not live till his fifth.

But my brother being the stubbed little shit he would later be know for lived way pasted his 5th and stayed till his 25th just to spite the doctors, Living long enough to look after his 2 little brothers, making sure that they got through care and see the men they became. Having a son of his own little Charlie, who is the spit of him in both looks and attitude, He also stay around long enough to hold his 1st nephew (Connor) before passing a week later.

Now every year, on his birthday my family meet to let a balloon go with a message to him, say a few words and then have a drink in his name.

LRE, Ronny, Lewis, Brother... Love you

Song Of the Day

I have not done one of these in a while but here goes...

I love its lyrics, the way they are both clever and no to subtle at the same time. Enjoy it and I also love the video!

Camden Lock By Night (20120119)

The other day I was watching something on the telly. Thinking about it now I cant remember what it was but the long and the short of it... was that I wanted to go up to Camden to take some images. I wanted to do something with the reflections on the water alone the canal.

My aim was to do something in the day and try get some images as the sun was setting. Then again this is me and if you know me - one thing I dont do well is morning's

(evening if the morning is really the afternoon).

I left the house around 16.00 and hit the tube getting there around 17.00 and the sun was already gone but that point only leaving a thin blue line of line in the sky. Lucky or me I had my tripod with me so long ass shutter was no trouble... Well no trouble till all the light went and pushing passed 30secs is hard without a cable release.

Anyways... I am kinda happy with what I got today and I hope that you guys like them as well!

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE FULL SET CLICK HERE!

You LIKE me?

Today I hit 100 "Likes" on my Facebook fan page!

I cant believe that I have made it to have 100 fans of my own work! Its shocking to me as I never was very good at anything (Jack of all trades but very much a master of none) that I have this many people behind me and I might as well say it now, not all of them are my friends, some are people I have never met but they have seen my work and and liked it.

I dont wanna blow my own horn here or anything, Al I wish to say is Thank you to everyone that has helped me get here and I hope that I can give you more images that you like over the next 3 years xx

Shelter Me (20120114)

Shelter Me is an event that happens every year, A free event with all the money going to Shelter, a Charity to help home the home-less people and last year raised over £500.00

But (yes I am using the BUT word) is was not such a good night for me, I had a really long day before hand and was talked into going by a friend. A friend that did not turn up to the event so I was there all by myself.

I was looking forward to going and using my new camera but my new flash had not turned up yet so I had to use my old camera (Sony A300). After using my Canon for the last 2 months, Saying that I had to get used to my old set-up was an under statement!

So with the photography not going the way that I liked, friends not showing up and to add even more to the bed vibes... I got a massive headache that took 3 days to go away!

Anyways, My gallerys are live both on the site and DSI so check them out if you wish but they are not my best!