Wednesday 18 February 2009

Large Format

17/02/09 - Firstly I would like to apologise for being too lazy to upload shots from my trip away, I will post them soon.

I finally used Large Format - the negative is 5x4" - BIG. I went to Beecraigs country park and over the period of about 2 hours i shot 2 subjects. I processed and scanned them.


Wednesday 4 February 2009

Thank god for snow..

02/02/09 - I woke up to quite a fair bit of snow.. so i headed out as soon as i could, I love shooting in snow - its dead good.

I was only out for an hour or so but the weather changes were incredible. blue sky and white puffy clouds to blizzards with very low visibility, you cant predict it at all. I only photographed local areas, but it was surreal to see paths, plants, grass all blend into one another.

One of my photographs is in the style of Michael Kenna who is one of my favourite photographers - most of his work is very minimalistic in that he has a snow scene with a small area of woodland, or a telegraph pole to break up the emptiness. His work is incredibly technical and i wish i was able to create photographs with in film like he does.


Forth Rail Bridge...

01/02/09 - Yes.. out again on the same day! went to photograph the rail bridge from north Queensferry at night. These bridges are getting a bit boring, but i was really excited about doing some night shots. As usual... absolutely freezing and windy... You can't really go to the same place and get different shots so me and Tom got fairly similar shots, i had a slightly wider lens and managed to get an impressive amount of the bridge in.

Howden House 2

01/02/09 - I was kicking around the house bored. For a while i wanted to re photograph howden house with my new 28mm lens. So i waited for a horribly dull stormy day and made my move. When i was walking there i was bombarded with hail.. great. It was on and off for a while and i decided to stick it out - and out of no where, the sun came splitting through the trees - success. I am really happy with the outcome, moody and intense is what i wanted, and finally got!