50mm

I recently purchased a lovely little 50mm lens for my cannon and thought I'd show you a couple of snaps that I've taken lately. 

A Little Something

This is more of a personal movie, but really happy how it came out, Check it out!


Filmed on my Cannon 550D, this is the first film I've filmed in a long time, but i got some fairly decent footage and had a go at Final Cut Pro X, which was an interesting experience to say the least; aided by Zelah in the editing process we managed to put together a lovely little memory!

Playing With Low Shutter Speed.

Now, we've all seen the photos of lights flying by in a blur and it always looks amazing and magical, so I thought I would join in and post some of the photos I took in Holland using a low shutter speed.

Photoshop Textures

Today I've been playing around with textures of pictures and using layer blends to make them work with some photos.

For this particular edit I used a Tutorial which can be found HERE, it also gave me some nice high quality textures, which is always great!

I used a photo from an old set and I did actually encounter some problems. The one problem you get from following tutorials is that they are editing their photo, not yours, the photo on the tutorial was a lot brighter than the one I used, but in some ways I found that to be a good thing because it meant I could put all my own personal touches to it.

The main issue was with the first texture (the rainbow texture) which at 100% opacity was over powering the actual photo, so it was a matter of turning the opacity down low. The first part of the tutorial where the publisher tells you how to edit the photo was something I followed loosely due to our photos being totally different.

All in all though it was a great tutorial and I did learn some very useful things as well as gathering a few nice textures.

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Fujifilm Instax Picture Review

About a year ago I bought a Fuji Instax polaroid camera, and I thought I would just write a little review about some of the photos I've taken over the year.

 This first shot was taken only yesterday on a crisp winters day and as you can see, the camera managed to capture that perfectly, the actual photo is a bit brighter but my scanner made it loose a little quality.  in my opinion if you're looking for that vintage effect there is nothing better that actually using a vintage means of photography such as polaroid.

 This second picture was taken during a photo shoot for my college project in the start of summer, and again it has captured the weather perfectly, another thing that surprised me is how well the vibrant colours come out on the film, it has nice grainy look.

The next two photos were taken the same day on a lovely spring day, and as you can see the vibrancy and colour of a spring day was captured well, yet the best thing about these two photos were how well they were focused, and its something I would never be able to re-create with a digital camera, another thing that makes them look so good is the fact I have had some photos turn out very unfocused or so much exposer that you cant see the subjects face. 

Yet, all in all I think the Fuji Instax is a great novelty camera which is great for capturing a moment with your friends that you don't want to forget!

Design Work

One other thing I also try to do is a bit of publishing work every now and again.

I made this minimal logo for my DJ alias VoidVoidVoid. I wanted it to be fairly minimal because I wanted the focus on the words and didn't want a flashy background. the original idea was to have all three of the "Void"s to be the same colour but it became illegible so I simply made them my favourite colours. A simple yet effective logo in my opinion, I made this on Photoshop CS5.

Shooting in Macro

I was trying to think what would be the most interesting subject to to take a photo of, I didnt want to do something cliche like taking a photo of a tree or rust, so I got something living, my sisters gecko.

My two favourites are the second and the forth because the focus on the head gives the body way more depth, it's great how much a little sharpening on a macro photo can make it look that much better. Editing wise that is all I really did to the photo as well as some noise reduction, I felt like it didn't need a lot because Macro is more focused on the detail of the subject and the scales of a gecko were a perfect thing to choose!

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