sunset

finished university quite late today and as I was walking down to my car noticed the sunset was pretty damn awesome... fortunately I had my camera handy as I had been photographing some of my work so went for a drive along riverside and took some snaps

 I have photographed riverside from roughly this location plenty times and every time I am drawn to taking pictures of the rows of street lights, this time was especially effective as the sunlight is reflected in the glass of each post.

 The one below is my favourite of this bunch, I love how the rays of sunlight beam down over the bonnet of my car and the shadow cast from the light shining underneath makes the foreground so much more interesting.

this panorama was strung together from  6 individual photos, for this to work I had to lock the exposure ever photograph so the final image looks seamless.

I didn't use much equipment for these shots, just my canon 1000d, standard lens and also my ultra wide angle sigma 10-20mm lens i use most of the time. I didn't need a tripod as the camera was pointing at the sun the shutter speeds were very fast even though the light was dying. No camera or external flash was used, it is just purely taken using the light provided naturally, my favourite way of photographing sun sets/rises, landscapes and urban areas.

crail raceway

as the summer is pretty much dead me my dad and sister wanted to get all our cars cleaned up to take to one of our fairly local car shows, unfortunately the Sunday morning was very rushed and I ended up forgetting my canon and all my other equipment :( so I was limited to my compact Panasonic lumix and Photoshop later on, the day was nice but cold and I am left fairly frustrated at the fact my first real photo shoot I’m posting on my blog was done with a standard compact camera severely reducing the control I had over each photo.

Anyway a couple of my favorites from the day ...  the mini in the middle is my sister holly's, the green and silver pickup is my dads and the black pickup is mine, she is called hazel : P

 this photo was just from a random car's wheel in the show but i liked it too much to leave out :)

in general i am pleased with how some of these came out considering i was back to basics with no control over exposure or aperture size etc.

first impressions

My name is Chris Berridge, I'm a first year student studying architecture in Dundee University, I'm 17 years old and one of my main interests is photography so the purpose of this blog is to document all my photographs whether related to uni or just for fun.


one of our early assignments was to find an inspirational place in the city of Dundee, fortunately i have lived here from birth and my photography has had me exploring the highs and low's of the city so I already had a few locations in my head i thought would be fairly original.

the location i picked was the roof of Bellstreet multistory car park. What drew me to the location first time around was the high viewpoint of the city but when i was up there i was amazed by how peaceful and still everything was compared to just a few dozen feet below me in amongst all the chaos of the city traffic.

 

so on returning to the location i thought it would be good to focus on the area of Dundee that is somewhat stuck in the past, as Dundee today is all talk about the modernizing waterfront i took pride in bypassing that and looking into the old architecture that was at one point a big deal as well. i took another few photos and done a couple sketches and i tried to emphasize the contrast in being above and in amongst central city life and the ability to stand still and watch everything else pass by you, whether that is rushing cars or slowly drifting clouds.