Challenge

 So how did the 30 day challenege go???

Hi i know i havent sent out as many blogs as normal and i am sorry but i have been in hibernation during the winter months and while i cant take any quick photos on a digital camera.

I have been using a Film 35mm olympus camera

So i have one of these bought fom ebay, broken so it was cheap. Luckily i am a bit of a practical person and i have been able to fix the issue and i am currenlty trying to take some images on a colour film.

As a child i always like the thought of processing film in a red room under the stairs alone and having all the chemicals to get the image onto film paper.

I have got part of that being the chemicals to stop the process of development this link, shows all the items that i have bought, hough i have not got the chemicals yet as they have a shelf life of only 3 months i think and that is if you can get that type.

I have got the smaller items, thermometer, jugs, developing bag and kit all which have not come in past the £20 mark yet.

The final item that i have bought which i hope will work is the wolverine scanner, this i thought i would have some film in the house some where to test but i dont some, as i said i am having to use the film i have to test the item out. I have just got a ideal for this though#

So apart from that i have still been on Viewbug (doing some curating nothing new,) Fineartamerica (even though i am english), Artpal and of course Redbubble 

having sold "4" items over a year i am not doing as well as i thought need some more ideas of products for that one, may be some thing to work on a comment follow up with a blogg 😀.

#photography. #1978photography, #awesome

30 Day Photography challenge

Each link will take you through the challenge for the day. So, let’s get started!

Day 1: Self Portrait

We all know how to take selfies. But this photo challenge will teach you how to do one correctly and with plenty of creativity! Multi exposure i have shown of with before.

 

Day 2: Rule of Thirds

The Rule of Thirds can be hard to grasp for absolute beginners. But we designed this little photography challenge to show you how simple this composition guide is to use.

Day 3: Black & White

It’s easy to take photos in colour. But do you ever wonder how your images would look in black and white? This photography challenge will certainly answer that question.

Day 4: Texture

Taking photos of textures is a great way to study how light interacts with surfaces. Now I challenge you to create dramatic pictures of highly-textured objects.

Day 5: High Angle

Are you tired of shooting at the same angle all the time? Take a high-angle photo of a subject that would otherwise look boring at eye-level and surprise yourself.

Day 6: Low Angle

I like this one as every one can do this, find out what awesome images you can come up with taking photos while on your belly!

Day 7: Silhouette

We often take silhouette shots on accident. For today’s photo challenge, your task is to take silhouette images on purpose. I know its for a phone but i am sure you can make it relevant to your camera too

Day 8: Sunset

Everyone takes photos of sunsets. Now let’s see how you can step it up a notch as a photography creative.

Day 9: Bokeh

This is one of the easiest and most fun photo challenges you can do. Time to open up your lens aperture and capture incredible bokeh shots!

Day 10: Lens Flare

Take photos in front of the sun and surprise yourself with beautiful lens flares.

Day 11: Landscape

Personal fav
ourite of mine, explore places and take breathtaking landscape photos.

Day 12: Portrait

Get out of your comfort zone and take portraits of people in different situations.

Day 13: Dynamic Tension

Look around and look for patterns that induce a certain mood and create a better photo.

Day 14: Light Painting

This is one of the most useful photo challenges you can do at night. It involves lighting up the dark parts in your frame to create interesting exposures.

Day 15: Colourful Water Drops

Now i have tried this one and it will take a while. Breaking out of the traditional and experiment with conceptual photography!

Day 16: Balanced

Photography is all about symmetry. Go out there and train yourself to look for balance in various scenarios.

Day 17: Unbalanced

So this is similar to the last one but something that looks like the other side of the photos but not exactly the same. Asymmetrical elements you can incorporate in your photography.

Day 18: Frame within a Frame

Improve your composition skills and try the frame-within-a-frame technique. You see lots of these images in advertising i am sure you can do this at home, get the ideas flowing.

Day 19: Panorama

Are you bored with regular landscape images? Now is the time for you to learn how to take panorama!

Day 20: Depth

If you continuously suffer from images that look flat, then this is one is perfect for you. It’s the best way to learn how to create dynamic pictures that appear to pop out of the frame.

Day 21: Water Splash

Ever wonder how to freeze water splashes in your photo? Well, you’re in for a treat because this photo challenge will teach you how to do it. This again is a difficult one i have tried this my self and found this a tough one.

Day 22: Slow Sync Flash

You don’t need fancy equipment for this challenge. Just your camera and a few techniques you’ll learn today when you click the link.

Day 23: Panning

Need work with your action photography? Then you’ll find this easy technique helpful. And it’s quite surprising how easy it is to do! I did this once and liked the result.

Day 24: Harris Shutter

This is a funky photo challenge involves using red, blue, and green filters to create psychedelic effects. 

Day 25: Shallow Depth of Field

Knowing how to use your aperture is a crucial skill you need to learn in photography. And this photo challenge is what you need to practice what you have learned.

Day 26: Light Graffiti

Time to take out your colourful flashlights and do some pretty artwork at night! Good for bonfires.

Day 27: Street Photography

Walk around and train your eye to capture interesting moments make them black and white, grainy??, would be ready for a magazine something hard hitting, get consent..

Day 28: Architecture

For this photography challenge, you’ll learn how to take pictures of buildings like a seasoned pro!

Day 29: Night

This photography challenge is a great way to test your skills as a photographer. Taking photos at night requires you to know how to use your equipment correctly.

Day 30: Creative Reflections

Celebrate your last photography challenge – Using a mirror

Bubbles

Its not about michael jackson's pet monkey.🐒

So more weeks of photography, i decided to take some images of bubbles made the mixture and tried to take some shots, outside, inside and in the darkroom where i decided on the lighting.

So i tried and tried and tried, its certainly not as easy as you thnk, or its just me may be using the balck background was the bad idea, i will try again today in the sun.

Any way i used all the ideas from this site, bubble. 

I dont think that the images are bad, i know they arent the greatest, as you can see i used two light either side of the camera to make them as bright as possible. Then blew my own bubbles, without dripping on the camera.

So my thoughts were about re creating the apple bubbles, I have previously taken images while there where in a sink bowl and could take the images and get real close in with macro but there would be lots of other bubbles like in the bath.

So floating bubble is not easy, focusing on the bubble is speed critical falling bubbles and getting the correct speed of shutter in a dark room with a aperature to just less than focus on everything behind. That was part of my problem my background is smooth and shiny so capture the reflection of the light so i tried to have the background with no relfection and the lamps facing me blinding! me.

With multiple tries and fails i eventually got this one. 

So i got the simplicity of the bubble and plenty of blank space to the writing to be placed for marketing and it could be manipulated further.

You can have some real fun with bubbles next frozen bubble.

On another note redbubble and other print on demand servies have not done me any good getting me plenty of follows, thats nice but follows doesnt convert to purchases, similar to fineartamerica and artpal. putting my photos on these site i am hopeing to get noticed and have the chance of selling more photos.

Lochnagar

So i have been to aberdeen now as you seen in my last post and i was...

Good really the town is known for being the granite city, and that is so true each building is grey. But the building are an acritectural wonder looking like a scene from a fairy tale some time. 

Being right next to the sea i though well it going to be cold. WRONG. I was warm and worn shorts all the time is was there, nice tanned legs you see now. 😀

Anyways i have been looking at questions again to answer then i will get to showing some of the shots i took.

So i have been seeing alot of questions of when will there be a photography show avaliable well there is one i have been a couple of times before when i was able to visit being local and its the birmingham NEC photography show. https://www.photographyshow.com/ well this year due to all hte problems of covid-19 we arent able to got physically but virtually you can and its FREE. join view and enjoy the toys you can buy.

What photography magazine is best, well this is more what information do you want to read about really i just use the internet nowadays to learn what i want at a particular time, like last time i wanted to leanr how to do multiple exposures so i found a page that i understood and tried it out, couple of week back i wanted to do some work on a cinemagraph so again i found a article that was understandable and i tried it out with some of my own images. 

So this was after listening to a pod cast and so i ran with it and this is one of the attempts that i made what do you think, i like it cause its even more like i am there again taking the photo and loving the country again, which also make me sad.

Anyway

aberdeen i went up Lochnagar it took 8 hours walking in total, but there was also the drive there and the drive back so add 2 hours each way, long day. You need some cash with you for the parking and in the current time a postable toilet or beable to hold for 10 hours the toilets were closed.

in all it was an enjoyable walk and fresh wow windy time but there were some great views and i was so lucky to see 

This was a great find by my partner she saw them and told me, it was great being able to see, may be a once in a life time capture. Long telephoto lens and 

Aberdeen

Hi all,

It seem like i am geeting a few people reading from looking at the statistics of the site, hopefully i am interesting and more of a normal person who does photography, any comments on the multi exposure image it created the other day?? please do contact me and i will have some content to add into the blog.

I found some more myths of photography,

People believe a good camera makes a better photographer.

The camera is a too, the person (photographer) is great because of the skills they have.

everyone learns in their own way but the vision is created by that person too. You can create a image with a single use camera and as the trend is heading back to film camera that are cheaper than the new digital cameras (you can get bundles camera and lenses) on ebay when i just looked a bundle can cost £40-50.

This is where your skill gets real, you will have to wait and see what you have shot no checking the viewfinder or monitor to see if the shot was good. Bit of anticipation more exciting than digital and when you get that shot better feeling.

Now manual camera also means you learn why there is different ISO film. A high iso means a lower amount of light is needed to get a image on the film so 1600 mean low light.

ISO 100 mean sunny days, bit difficult in the UK and may mean you need different cameras if light changes.

Next the aperature now this is how much the eye of the lense controlling the amount of light passing through the lens, of which 

So smaller number then more focus on the subject you want to shoot, smaller number then more objects are in focus

Shutter speed is the amount of light that will be seen by the frame on the film.1/500 and bigger, you will have matrix style skills and beable to freeze time and the image, 1/4 and lower then the image will blur.

A High ISO is bad

This is subjective, i personally learn that a low iso is better as i mentioned. The brighter the day the cleaner the image will be, if you want to shoot with a ISO100 at night then you will need a tripod or a steady hand, unless your a robot it wont work or you will like that type of image. personal choice.

A tripod is always needed for clean shots

Again subjective, i normally shoot without a tripod and i am fine. you want to take a night shot with trailing lights then you will need a tripod, anything long exposure the closer you get to one second exposure, more likely you will need a stable place to mount your camera, a bean bag, tripod, monopod, wall or fence.

 this image didnt have a tripod

Only bright light make good photos

guess, subjective but it is true sometimes above image was in bright light and on a beach, i really enjoyed having the trip but below is a low light image taken in the lake district

without a tripod either.

 So answered some myths moving on soon i will be taking a trip to Aberdeen few hours driving but i will be taking some time to shoot. in the mean time take a look at wish or redbubble and buy some merchandise