No Longer Updating

I've decided that the 365 wasn't for me, i was producing rubbish images just for the sake of taking a photograph, not something i wanted to do.

I won't update this any longer, but you can still see what i've been up to over at http://blog.ifotou.co.uk

169:365 What's On TV

Feeling rubbish and watchinf daytime tv - again the cam phone

168:365 Flowers

again from the camera phone

167:365 Rubbish

Another crappy camera pic shot.

166:365 Ice Cream Anyone

Popped into ASDA earlier and ended up buying a pack of toy cars for Darren, this was my fav from the pack :)

165:365 The Waterfall

Today Scott and I took a wander down to Almondell country park to do some shots.

Scott was playing with his HOLGA and i was playing with the 10 Stop filter and long exposure shots.

This image was shot with the 10 stop and was a 5 minute exposure, there's some minor mark removal done along with a little curves on the sky detail.

164:365 OUCH

Crap picture trying to show the bruise on my arm from paintballing this morning

163:365 Swalker

Swalker at College on our last day, another cam phone pic

162:365 Scary

My Scary Daughter Caron (camera phone pic)

161:365 Super Sam

had a great shoot today with Sam Wardlaw, this one is straight from the cam

160:365 Getting Ready

Getting Organised for a shoot tomorrow

159:365 The View

The current view from our kitchen window - dont you just love that sky

158:365 Linlithgow Palace

Out at Linlithgow Palace again today also doing some 5x4 Velvia stuff.

This is shot with a 10 stop filter and an 80A blue filter which is why there is a distinct blue cast.

157:365 Jacques

After a few options - decided to stay in and drink my jacques - yummy

156:365 A new Phone

In the process of moving over to T-mobile (number is coming with me) and should be over to the new phone by monday or tuesday.

Taken with the old phone.

155:365 Sepia Prints

Photograph of the pile of Sepia Prints for my documentary for college.

154:365 Duck and Ferrari

Pretty awful picture but meet Ducky and his Ferrari :)

153:165 The Pool

Crappy camera phone pic of the paddling pool the kids have had out this week.

152:365 New Bag

A new bit of kit for me.... i wanted a new bag that was big enough to cart as much kit as possible and with some birthday cash and a jessops voucher i picked up today my Lowepro Fastpack 350 seen here

it can take my digital kit, 35mm slr and the MPP and lens quite comfortably, and has room for a 17" widescreen laptop at the back too.

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 :)

120:365 Batteries Not Included

it's like getting that brilliant new toy at christmas but no batteries to go in it.

i ordered my MPP yesterday and have today got a 150mm f5.6 lens to try out (im likely to buy it) but the camera is still yet to arrive.

soon please :)