Engagement preview

On Sunday, I went through to Edinburgh to take engagement photos for Lisa and Scott. Here's a little preview:

Learning curve

Yesterday I took photos of a friend's little girl. I discovered that taking pictures of other people's children is challenging. I had taken about 100 on the digital camera, and a roll of film. Out of the 100, I had to weed it down to 30 that I could work with, and I'll have to wait until Monday to see how the film shots worked out.

I need more practice I think :)

Recap of a week - busy weekend ahead

This week started out feeling like it was going to be very productive. I spent six hours in the dark room on Monday, two hours of which were spent on one print (dodging - very time consuming). I did four prints, mounted three of them, got one final assignment finished and submitted, and another class assignment finished and submitted. I have two more prints left to do on Monday and once I mount them, I can officially say that I've completed the final assignments for three classes.

I have a presentation to do next week for my Communications class, and then 12 images to work on for my digital imaging class and a resource book of 35 photographers that we're researching. 

I'm slowly getting there, but it feels really....well....SLOW. 

This weekend I'm shooting on both Sat and Sun. Saturday, pics of a wee girl, and Sunday, a couple. Hoping the sun comes out. Also, Friday night I've got a meet up with some ex-colleagues, so it'll be good to catch up.

Keep an eye out for the results of my shoots! :)

The Lit Tree

When we were at the Crinan Canal, and heading north back to Kimelford, I happened to look back in the wind mirror and noticed this tree away up on the hill.

The clouds were wispy, the hills were dark, except for this ray of light that was shining down on this tree. Whipped out my digital camera, zoomed in as far as I could and got the following shot.

I increased the colour saturation, and also did a black and white copy. I quite like both.

More pics:

I've spent most of the morning working on these. Let me know what you think!

1) Celtic Cross at Kimelford. This was taken late afternoon when the sun was setting behind the hills. Taken with my Canon EOS 50D. I adjusted the levels of contrast.

2) My son - sitting on a stone wall. Also taken with my digital. All I did with this one was crop the sides a bit. 

3) Loch Lubnaig - Also taken with the digital. It was in colour, but decided to switch it to black and white. Tweaked the contrast.

4) And finally, a red rowboat. This was taken with a cokin red filter on my digital.