A little fun with lego men for the theme of “Orange”. The background is just card from a stationary shop.  

Taken with a remote shutter release (the timing took a while to figure out) and an off-camera flash.  

This month’s theme was “Looking Up”. I braved the cold to take photos of the Lloyd’s building. It was difficult to find a part not covered in scaffolding at the moment. Couple of edits of the same shot:  

Took this across the Thames for my theme of nocturnal  shots. Got a few different colour combinations of the Eye and County Hall in different greens, blues and pinks, but this was my favourite. 30 second exposure at f/22.

For this class we were manipulating physical prints of images. I was like being back at school. The ones below have been scratched with scissors, left overnight in turmeric, smeared with bleach, and framed with a secondary print of the same photo.

This assignment was to create some stock photographs with the theme of Middle Class Lifestyle. It gave me a chance to use my new Sigma 10-20mm wide-angle lens – the two outside ones of houses were taken with this. One of the traits of stock photography is to create an image with lots of space […]

The second assignment in my Learning to see in Photography class was to come up with a cover for a Gastropub Magazine to appeal to it’s target audience. We came up with the idea of a chalk background mimicking a specials board. With that in place it was an easy enough job to change the […]

First assignment in the Learning To See In Photography class at St Francis Xavier college was a Photographic Treasure Hunt. We were given a piece of A4 paper with various words or phrases, and tasked with taking a photo for each one. The scope was wide open – you could photograph anything as long as you […]