Street Photography

As part of my photography project I had to include some street photography, so I decided I wanted to do a fashion shoot with an urban twist. These are some of my older work but still a good example of street photography. I had taken these photos in a car park and as I was using natural light to take these photos I had the challenge of working out how I was going to get my photos well lite without having to use a longer shutter setting. I had worked out that if I went to the location early in the morning with my model then the sun would rise letting lots of light through the open gaps.
I did some experimenting with the settings for each photo so I'll put the setting I used under the photos below.

6.3mm

1/80

f/3.8

ISO 400

6.3mm

1/80

f/3.8

ISO 400

5mm

1/60

f/3.4

ISO 800

4.3mm

1/60

f/3.1

ISO 250

7.8mm

1/60

f/4

ISO 640

My photos were taken on my Fuji bridge, handheld as that was the only camera I had at the time and I didn't own a tripod. Hope you like them :)

Question of the day: Do you prefer fashion or urban photography??

The Photography Show

So yesterday I went to The Photography Show in Birmingham NEC, I had a whale of a time and there was plently to see/ do. Fortunately for me one of my weekly tasks in uni was to recreate an iconic photo, I was rather lucky to stumble across a Marilyn Monroe look-alike throughout the day at the Hasslebland stand and just had to snap up a great opportunity. Here are some of my photos ...

I decided to keep my photos in colour as I thought the photos looked beautiful with that splash of colour thought I might play around with the photos and experiment with them in black and white. 

Question of the day: Did you go to the Photography Show this year?? 

If you did what day did you go and did you go intending to buy anything?? 

The Weird And Wonderful

At my university the photography department work closely with the media make up department. This is brilliant for both departments as I get to photograph some amazing work as well as giving useful photos to the make up artists to use in their sketchbooks. Before Christmas the media make up girls had an assessment which I had the honor of photographing for them, each model has a different theme so I've labelled them for you (some are more obvious then others). Below are some of my favourite ones, hope you like them. 

Circus 

Royalty 

Butterflies 

Fossils 

Medusa  

Flowers 

Question of the day: Which is your favourite photo??
And, how long do you think it took the girls to create these wonderful masterpieces??

Behold The Bokeh

Before Christmas I was set a task in my uni class to take some Bokeh photography (For those who don't know what Bokeh is, it's where you taken out of focus shots, usually of light). I thought with the Christmas tree having so many different coloured flashing lights, what could have been better timing!! So before the Christmas tree gets packed up, I tried to get some good shots. I've never done Bokeh before so it was a bit of a shot in the dark, it's definitely something like I'd like to try again. But with that being said I'm still quite proud with how some of my images came out, I've got some of my photos below, how you enjoy :)