boredom is scary

  Well being the idiot that I am I was left with nothing to do the other night because I left my sketchbook and folders in uni, to most people this is a good excuse to take a night off and not think about work but unfortunately I’m the kind of person who isn’t capable of doing nothing. Flicking through a photography magazine inevitably lead to me playing about with my camera and here is my favorite few edited results.

  Comparing the black and white to the colour version makes a big difference, personally the majority of the time I prefer black and white but its still surprising how much the removal of colour can transform a photo.

  I like these mainly because they were taken in a fully lit room with plain old boring lighting but some exposure tweaks (and help from the apparently very bright light on my mobile instead of flash) created a very different style of image. Setting the exposure to -2 helped create the spot light effect by making the unlit areas even darker while the light helped pick out detail around my eye as well as bringing out the highlights and colours.

fireworks

Well guy fox night wasn’t as big an event this year unfortunately partially because of the weather and partially because of the 1 year old in the house, so missing the display at Baxter we didn’t have our usual display at the house (that in my opinion would give Baxter a run for its money in previous years). I have never tried photographing fireworks before so thought I would give it a go this year with the few little ones we did set off, this was very much trial and error with the exposures varying from 3-30 seconds and only really liked 3 images by the end of the night.

I like this first photo especially, it was amazing how such a pathetic firework turned out looking so dramatic through the lens

I wanted to get a good shot of light painting with the sparklers but unfortunately no one wanted to co-operate so this was the best I could get out of them…

haloweeeeen

Slightly late but never mind, I decided to get a bit creative this year with my pumpkin carving, they are always so boring and since Halloween is nothing more than an excuse for fancy dress nowadays I don’t see why it had to be scary anyway here is my effort

these photos were nothing fancy, I just used my compact Panasonic lumix, by manually keeping the ISO low it reduced the grain and my turning the flash of it created a spooky candle lit atmosphere to the subject, I occasionally prefer photographing this way because if I had used my cannon I would have spent hours fiddling around with settings, lenses and tripods for what was really just a bit of fun.