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October 2008

Advertising in Jomo Kenyatta Airport… a photographers take..

By Candid, contrast, light, Wide angle7 Comments

This photo was taken on the entry into Jomo Kenyatta International airport as you walk down towards the Immigration desks..

I liked the original perspective of this image but i later realised that the light that was coming of the adverts on the side were beautiful…

i have just used the curves to pull out this light and then tone down the rest of the backgrounds… i also added a layer effect multiply to be exact and a little gaussian blurr..

do people like it or is it too dark…

one fore thing i had to crop it down as it had allot of useless space above and below it..

16/10/2008

Old Kenyan Man

By Depth of field, Portrait11 Comments

I took this image with a 70- 300 manual focus lens that i does not auto focus well with my Canon 20D so when i do get a nice image like this its rather rewarding..

I like the soft depth of field and the contrast that i have boosted it too… The mans face has so much detail and the way he is posed just shows wiseness…

The fact that his eyes were closed also was interesting and went well with the old feeling.. not that all old people sleep just though it was nice…

13/10/2008

Ringwood Forest Series #6

By photographyNo Comments

This is just some of the trees as you look up in the forest and then boosted contrast makes the whole thing really dark and contrasty…

This concludes the Ringwood forest series…  Please do go through and tell me what you think of them and leave lots of helpful and even constructive criticism.

There is two main aspects that are consistent with this series,

  1. Black and White
  2. Forest and trees

I have tried to display a few different ways of taking pictures in a Forrest and i hope that it has helped you see what is possible.

Tell me which one you like the most…

08/10/2008

Ringwood Forest Series #3

By photographyNo Comments

The first thing that sprang to mind for this one was a nuclear aftermath. It looks like some of the trees have been flattened or also like the trees that have been flattened after St Helens Exploded.

Again this is solarised and intentionally quite sinister and dark looking.

Is it too strong or grey??

08/10/2008

Ringwood Forest Series #2

By photographyOne Comment

Here is number two in the series sorry that it was not posted yesterday… Was very busy…

Its got quite a sinister feeling to it and its basically been solarized by the photoshop filter looks like it could be out of a horror movie…

I like the contrast between dark trees and the light ground… the original.. was quite dark and this was another take on the forest.

08/10/2008

Ringwood forest Series #1

By photography26 Comments
Wide pan shot of path in the forest

Wide pan shot of path in the forest

This shot was taken when i was doing a shoot for one of my major projects for Uni… It was a great opportunity to catch the beauty of the forest. I shall be doing a 5 part series on this over the next 5 days so do keep checking back each day.

I like this one as it is a cool gradient from light to dark across the frame and also the perspective of the rode into the distance…

Just achieved by a few photo filters… and de-saturation effects..

08/10/2008

S macro

By photographyNo Comments

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Same as ttaT This image was taken with the revers lens trick effect. This is basically taking the camera lens off your SLR and turning it upside down.. then you have to focus by moving the lens and keeping it steady for the shot. Its often a hit or miss shot but when it works its beautiful as you can see the above image is just of some text on a piece of paper that you can even see the pixels of the ink jet..
I left it blue as thats how it came out just changed the levels to the right exposure..

08/10/2008
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