Saturday, 31 August 2013

Project 365 Catch up - 31/8/13

I haven't posted in a couple days and really need to kick the habit...

This morning I had some time to spare in Southampton so went a bit Instagram mad, 

All of today's photos are on my instagram feed which you should be able to follow here http://instagram.com/daniel_imaging :)













Noticed the leaves falling off the trees :(







So I'm back to work on Monday so the theme for next week will be making sure I post every day...

Wednesday, 28 August 2013

Project 365 Day 26 - 28/8/13

Todays photos are from Sea Life Centre in Brighton, which was very cool but challenging for photography. It was very dim down in the aquariums and getting a decent shutter speed without too much grainy noise was hard. Even after trying to reduce it in photoshop the grain is still evident. I spent most of my time manually focusing as it was too dark for auto focus so getting sharp images wasn't easy. Heres a select few of the better pictures...


I tried a tilt shift effect on the crab photo which makes the focus really selective, the other effect it can have is make the in focus subjects look miniature but it didn't really work. Tabs reckoned the crabs looked like they were at the pub having a pint and talking about crab stuff.




Tuesday, 27 August 2013

Project 365 Day 25 - 27/8/13

Today I met up with a good mate of mine, Dave. We had a walk round town and ended up playing a couple rounds of mini golf, and that's where I got today's snap...


Monday, 26 August 2013

Project 365 Day 24 - 26/8/13

My attempt at star trails tonight was scuppered by clouds that decided to show up so I decided to do an HDR from an old set of bracketed shots, started with these...





And ended up with this, on reflection might have done a bit too much dodging...


Sunday, 25 August 2013

Project 365 Day 22/23 - 25/8/13

Today I went out with the intention of shooting a ship wreck down on the estuary but the combination of high tide and harsh sunlight rendered my shots a bit underwhelming. I've been wanting to try HDR for a while just to try it out more than anything and took a set of bracketed shots of a bridge while I was out, here is the end result...

 
And this was what I got when I accidentally let off the shutter between bracketed shots, thought the rays looked cool for an accident of a shot...


Saturday, 24 August 2013

Project 365 Day 21 - 23/8/13

A day late again, but yesterday I was on a boat all day fishing with my old man so photography wasn't high on my priority list...

Hold on to your butts...


Tools of the trade...


We're gonna need a bigger boat... (Photo taken by my dad)




Thursday, 22 August 2013

Project 365 Day 19-20 - 21/8/13 double whammy...

So I still need to catch up on a day, here is a photo double whammy to get me back on track...