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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SharkATCK

Something else I forgot to mention, my friends and me have started up an online magazine of the arts, in which we will review music, photography, film, poetry and lots more as well as posting our own stuff! so please go check it out! 

http://sharkatck.wordpress.com/

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Scenic Shots

Recently I've been shooting a lot of scenic stuff, I've never really shot in snow or taken any scenic shots apart from the tilt shift photos, So here's a few of the shots I like that I've taken recently.

As you can see I got a little carried away with the sunset pictures, but it was a pretty beautiful sunset and I was in the perfect location. I edited the 3 in different ways just to see what they would come out like and it's always good to do a bit of comparison. Now, speaking from my point of view I like the top one the most the colour of the sky is mind blowing and the vignette really makes you focus on the sun, the only problem with it is that there is probably a bit too much black space at the bottom, speaking from a professional side I think the Bottom one is most likely the best,the colours aren't as vibrant as the top sunset photo but it looks a lot more natural and it has a really nice composition being portrait. The middle of the sunset photos is the worst in my opinion and my professional opinion, the colours are lacking in this photo which I think is the best thing about this sunset.

As for the very top photo with the grass in the snow, this was me testing out the macro on my camera which is another style of photography in which I haven't really tried yet and would like to try out!

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Stop Motion

As I said in an earlier post I've been doing some filming which is sort of new ground to me, I know the basics when it comes to editing videos, but in the past I've done a couple of stop motions that are on youtube and I've noticed one of the videos becoming more and more popular. I edited this on Final Cut Pro, which I would love to get better at.

I made this stop motion about 2 years ago now but it's had over 21,000 views! I'm pretty sure the pop culture hero Mario had something to do with it getting this many views, but in my opinion I think I decent job with this and it flows fairly well, I may have to shoot another stop motion in the near future!

Live Band Photos

The other night I went to a local bands e.p launch to film some stuff for the guys. in between filming the madness I managed to capture a couple of photos with one of the supporting acts.

Tilt Shift.

Posting those photos of the abbey reminded me of some work I did a year ago about Tilt Shift Photography. The long and short of Tilt Shift is the illusion of making big scenic photographs look more like a model play set.

There was a lot of experimenting involved and I thought I'd post some of the photos and talk

about them.

Obviously there are two ways of making a tilt shift photo, one is having the actually lens second

is post processing which is the route I took.

So these were the first two I decided to edit from my first set of photos and to be honest I think they came out really well, especially the second, I think they all look like toy cars. another thing to make your tilt shift photos really come alive is a large amount of contrast and saturation. The way you post process the photos is switching to quick mask mode then using the gradient tool to get your selection of what you want to be the main point of focus, exit and the put a lens blur on selected area, obviously be sure to tweak until you see what looks right.

These two photos are from my second set of tilt shift shots, after looking around for some high vantage points in bath, i managed to get into a great place for Great Pulteney Street. and in my opinion Tilt Shift photos come out a million times better when taken from above. the second photo is my favourite because the little lady and cars just ended up looking just like toy models.

Now this last one was just an experiment, while researching tilt shift I'd noticed that there was not one Tilt Shift photo taking with a fisheye lens, so considering I had one to use I thought I thought I would go around and test. This is Great Pulteney Street from ground level, and in my opinion the post precessing did work. it just doesnt capture the right feel because a fisheye distorts the photo already then adding more distortion like Tilt Shift makes it just too much.

Casual Tourist Shots

So i was with my dad and he has his own art project going on at the moment in which he takes photos on certain things every season and will put them together, either way I tagged along and thought I'd grab some photos of the Bath Abbey because I never have.

The moment we turned up at the abbey the sun came out of the clouds and made the church a perfect golden, so these photos have little post process because they already look exactly what how I imagined. The only thing i really decided to post process was sharpening the image slightly to put a bit more definition.