151:365 Drinkies

A wee bottle of beer that was a gift from the chef at the restaurant last night, cheers Chris

150:365 Filters

Struggling for time today so just a quickie.

149:365 Film Collection

Some more film to shoot through soon

148:365 The Dungeons

Went to the Edinburgh Dungeons with the school yesterday and picked up a couple of these pens.

147:365 Graded Unit

This is the ig box of stuff being handed in tomorrow for my graded unit, finished at last.

146:365 College

Sorry to anyone who follows this blog but last week was a bit manic with college work and some technical issues so the uppdates are in bulk

pretty much all tripe now too

145:365 CSI Pumphy

Helping Ross out with his college Graded Unit - how evil does this lot look.

144:365 Birthday Cake

A large slab of cake made for my birthday by Lynn and Caron.

Thanks :)

143:365 The phone

Another rubbishy picture for tonight, this time of my phone

142:365 Take Off

Another rubbish shot today :(

141:365 The Wine Buff

Neil, one of my lecturers, helping me out and posing for a shot from my graded unit.

Big update coming to my largeformat blog tomorrow.

140:365 The Waterfall

Really really happy with tonights shot.

I was feeling a bit down, stressing out with all the Graded Unit work i need to do by next week and asked Ross and McKillop if they fancied a wee trip out.. McKillop was away watching his nephew playing football so ended with just Ross and I.

We went down to Almondell and after splashing some fake blood about the place for Ross's graded unit we had a wee play with some water shots.

This is the first time i'm really happy with the result of the 10 stop filter...used my microfibre cloth over the top of the filters as a hood and it seemed to work grand.

2.5 minutes at f16 for this one.

139:365 The Badge

Utterly awful picture today of the MPP badge on the MPP Microtechnical MkVIII

better one tomorrow i promise.

138:365 The NED

Another shot for my Graded Unit ... this time Kyle being a NED but holding a bible :)

137:365 The Skipper v2

A remake of the last skipping one with Caron, i just wasn't 100% happy with the last ones so re-shot them today, both digitally for testing (image here) and on LF film.

Will nip into college tomorrow to do some scanning of the LF ones and fire them on the LF blog tomorrow.

136:365 The Pooch

another rubbish picture tonight this time our Pooch Buffy

135:365 Top Trumps

This is just a quick grab shot of the 5x4 slide's of Debbie's Mad Cow Hoovering.

using Lynns craft lightbox to view them.

The negs were processed this afternoon by Trumps of Edinburgh who are absolute stars and did the E6 process in under and hour and a half.

I love the look of the negs (even if Darren ran into shot on this one) and i reckon the colour print (will be scanning on Monday) will look outstanding...

134:365 Poetic Justice

Another couple of shots for my graded unit today, one with the completely nuts Ross Golden (will be on my LF blog tomorrow) and one with the stunning Anna.

Anna, who is also a photographer - you can see her work at http://www.annaturnbullphoto.com/ , and is the NQ class at college helped me out with the shot shown here.

Anna is a bit reader and loves poetry and it is a very precious book she is reading.

Flash was sat in the boot of the car to add effect.

133:365 The Ivory Flame

Today was something a bit different, this shot being of the lovely Ivoryflame (holly)

we went to the brickworks in pumpherston and managed to play about for a while with some lights and really love this shot.

it just has a lot of power for me..

132:365 Mad Cow

My mental sister-in law who agreed to do this shot for my college project, this is one of the digital testing shots, more to come from the B&W and COLOUR film shots over on my large format blog within the next few days.

131:365 Lovers Tiff

Scott, Scott and Ross at the Brickworks after helping Ross do some of his Graded Unit

130:365 Cake

ok another poor quality image i know but i was just all over the place today

still tired from her indoors getting back late from a night out and my eldest is away to france for the week with the school and left today so a bit all over the place.

this is a cake made by Scotts brother Callum and his g/f ... looked yummy.

129:365 Tut Tut

A test shot today, my daughter skipping on her brothers bed :)

the film version will be on the large format blog soon

128:365 Night Out

had a night out with Paul (left) and drew tonight,

just in and totally drunk

127:365 Hot Anna

Today i was lucky enough to be asked to do some shots for Anna.

Anna is such a bubbly, stunning young lady and it was great fun.

very happy with the final shots.

This particular one is straight out the camera.

126:365 Coming Tomorrow

Todays shot will be here tomorrow .... it was taken on film and i need to wait until i scan it tomorrow.

125:365 Filters

crap picture and not sharp but hey ho i don't care tonight lol

these are part of my new filter kit -

filter holder and 67mm adapter
ND2
ND4
Light grey grad
10 Stop ND

124:365 Fall and Perish

Been quite an interesting Day as Scott and I did some promo shots for local metal band Fall and Perish today...

They've got a pretty cool sound and are all decent blokes.

Shot here is of Steve the drummer who also happens to be in one of the photography classes at college... really happy with how the shots turned out.

123:365 Drying Time

another poor picture today, but these are my first set of negs in a few ways, hanging out to dry in our bathroom :)

First time using fomapan film, first time using microphen, and first set of negs through the MPP

122:365 Movement

This afternoon i dropped Lynn off at her mums and went to linlithgow to do some shots before helping out in the restaurant for a wee while.

I was playing with my new filters and the MPP but i think it was just too bright for them.

I will be processing the 5x4 negs later today and scanning on Tuesday but in the meantime these are one of the digital shots, in both B&W and Colour.... i think i prefer the B&W one.

To get the effect i used a 10 stop filter and and ND4 plus a light grey grad. These are 90 second exposures on the basis of Lee Frosts advice to calculate out the proper exposure and add half again... they certainly work pretty well.

Off again later today i think to get some longer shots later in the day where i can really increase the length of the exposure.

121:365 My New Toy

This is my new toy, fully extended with the focus shade out :)

isn't it gorgeous :)

more pics tomorrow in the light :)