Friday, 30 December 2011

LIGHT painting





I have been experimenting with light painting surrounding an object and also text lighting


Think I'm getting somewhere with it 


Other than cropping there  has been no Photoshopping of the above images


Not too bad for a second try

Thursday, 29 December 2011

LIGHT switch on Part 2

Pretty Girl Rock Perform

Tupele Dorgu  of Corrie fame plays the witch at this years Pavillion panto Snow White

Snow White AKA Amy Thompson

Few more pictures of the festive switch on

Rhyl High Street 

Whoever was responsible for the sound and lighting there I must say did a great job, the event was a pleasure to photograph with no flash needed . There was also some very talented acts performing .

Tuesday, 20 December 2011

HUNDREDS of miles apart in the same photo !

 After ruining a reel of film by getting my timings wrong a couple of weeks ago I got a few nice images with this lot . The first pic shown below is a double exposure ( The wind turbine was taken in Scotland and the background was a mural on a wall in Chester almost 250 miles apart )

boats near bridge Garden City Deeside . The Lomography fisheye camera gave it an interesting composition


Wednesday, 14 December 2011

DAFT PUNK IS PLAYING AT MY HOUSE




I had a bit of a brainwave about light writing just before walking through my front door today . Might keep the technique under my hat until I have a proper play at it . You can even see the streetlight in the background on some shots

Sunday, 11 December 2011

CUTEST helper ever

Had a bit of help from my little nephew putting the Christmas tree up today . He's such a cutie

Friday, 9 December 2011

STUPID idea but nice results




As I was in Llangollen today I thought rather than waste fuel on only one job I'd get some stock photos of the castle for archive purposes as it was a nice day and this time of year the sun is low all day 


The four important words from the last sentence "was a nice day " quickly turned into "attack of the gale force driven hail stones, " just before I got to the castle , if it wasn't such a steep climb up I probably would have turned back but I want a reason behind my calves hurting tomorrow


I'm pretty sure I even heard a sheep saying mmmmmeeeidiot meee 


Luckily I think in the 20 minutes or so I was up there I saw all four seasons


Above pics are some of the results , they are also not far from the originals


Next time hot choc and thermals .... actually might wait till summer

Thursday, 8 December 2011

CHRISTMAS light switch on Denbigh

I'm really trying to get into the Christmas spirit this year 

So far so good I saw a cow with a Santa hat on yesterday ...... (AMAZING)

This was from last week with some of the cast from Rhyl's Christmas panto help switch on the lights in Denbigh

Saturday, 3 December 2011

WHITE wedding




I have got to be honest I don't often do weddings with today being an exception 

 I had a great day , the bride and groom were fantastic fun  and I felt really welcome


Pretty much nobody knew but on exiting the church there was a snow machine organised , quite an inspired move and made for some really interesting photos !

Also I'm all against camera snobbery but I borrowed my friends Canon 7d ( cheers Mel ) and it literally blew my 40d out of the water . 


Thursday, 1 December 2011

RHYL Christmas light switch on 2011

RHYL JOURNAL HOMEPAGE



It's amazing how quickly a day goes when you're busy !

I finished the day with the Christmas light switch on in Rhyl
It was fantastic that the weather held out (except for a small shower) and see so many hundreds of people on Rhyl High Street to see the light switch on and special guest acts 


There was some great talented performers and Rhyl should be really proud of itself for the show it put on . The acts performing were Ben Williams , Pretty Girl Rock , Becki Herdman and X Factor contestant Sami Brookes , not to forget some of the cast fron Rhyl Pavillions Panto Snow White


Also from my point of view the lighting was fantastic I had my shutter speed up to 400 ISO 800 , and still got some nice crisp well lit images

Pictures and full report will be in next weeks Journal , also on the website ( Follow Link )

http://www.rhyljournal.co.uk/

I'll post a couple more pics next week after publication.... maybe by then I'll get my hearing back to Normal .....

...............And tomorrow light switch on in Denbigh............