Tag: colour

One Colour a Day

One Colour a Day

Reading Time: 2 minutesI have to be honest and say that in the run up to Christmas, as is often the case, I was not feeling particularly festive, and in my suggestions or interests for the work secret santa this year I think I put some thing like …

White Balance (It’s largely a matter of taste)

White Balance (It’s largely a matter of taste)

Reading Time: 6 minutesWhite balance refers to how your eyes identify colour in an image. What I aim to show in this tutorial is that sometimes, there is no ‘correct’ white balance, it is a matter of taste and creative vision. I am going to try and avoid …

Streaks of Light

Streaks of Light

Reading Time: 4 minutes…I have been discussing this work with another photographer, Andreas Andrews, who also uses light trails and long exposures in his work, though often in his case with a very steady set up so that the background is rendered sharp and the trails very clean.  I think that both styles have their appeal – there is a definite calm to clean straight trails, but sometimes the atmosphere of a place is better rendered with some chaos and confusion…

X-pro

X-pro

Reading Time: 3 minutesI found this little page today, and thought that I would re-blog it. http://pixelfarmize.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/xpro-film-chart/ It has got me thinking a bit about cross-processing, and the results that you get. Cross processing has become a bit of a trend at the moment, with the whole l*mography …

Autumn Colours

Autumn Colours

Reading Time: 2 minutesI took myself round and about Woodhouse Moor for a lunchtime walk, and to try and capture some of the colours of Autumn. Autumn is a funny month, nature displays some of the best colours of the year, but the weather so often fades these …

Textures of Dereliction

Textures of Dereliction

Reading Time: 3 minutesThese are some more images from Hyde Park and the surrounding areas, taken alongside some of my research photos – these are much more an aesthetic project, aiming to capture the micro textuaral details, isolating these from the full scene. Though of course these are …

Happy Hyde Park Basra Night

Happy Hyde Park Basra Night

Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve found a setting on the new camera to take shots of fireworks – a long exposure that saturates the image nicely. Hyde Park is literally like a war-zone at the moment, and this is one of the things that does piss me off about …