[Past Posts: Photo-a-Day 2008; Week 1; Week 2; Week 3; Week 4]
Having completed this year’s challenge, I have a varied selection of photos; some of which I’m pretty pleased with. But I’d like to know what other people think.
So if you’ve got a few minutes, please take a look through my Photo-a-Day July 2008 set and tell me which you think are best by posting a comment here. Also, have I done better than last year?
See past the break for my favourites…
Continue reading ‘Photo-a-Day Round Up: Which were your favourites?’
[Past Posts: Photo-a-Day 2008; Week 1; Week 2; Week 3]
Well I’m a bit late in posting this, but here’s a round-up of my photos from the last ten days of this year’s challenge.
Still in exam mode on 22 July, I had to grab a quick shot in the house. I had been using these sweets as part revision sustenance, part nostalgia trip (fondly remembering the old adverts with grandpa and grandson). The following day, with the final exam over, I was out celebrating with my friends and used my phone camera to photograph the Mojito ingredients before I’d drunk too many to hold a camera steady…
Photo number 24 was taken in Jess’ garden, enjoying my new-found freedom. I rather like these silhouettes against the blue sky.
The following day I went to meet my brother in London. Jess joined us in Green Park, and here are her feet next to mine. A very simple picture, but one of my favourites so far.
Read on for days 26-31, the exciting conclusion to 2008’s project…
Continue reading ‘Photo-a-Day: Week 4′
[Past Posts: Photo-a-Day 2008; Week 1; Week 2]
This past week I have been struggling a bit for inspiration. On 15 July I had a go at another reversed-lens macro shot, which allowed me to get the following shot of my monitor, showing individual pixels. The front lens (I was using two, with the frontmost one being held reversed ahead of the main one attached to the camera) was just a few millimetres from the screen, and what you see below has not been cropped. Larger versions come with a health warning: may cause fuzziness.
Following this I tried an arty arrangement of my iPod Shuffle:
July 17th and 18th both saw me play with light; first shining from the front onto my watch, and then from behind through some beer bottles. Of the two, I am happier with the Light Beer shot (complete with snappy name) - especially given that I’d forgotten to change the date on my watch since the beginning of the month, something that could be a bit of a give-away in a date-specific project like this!
Read on for days 19-21, including my first go at a self-portrait…
Continue reading ‘Photo-a-Day: Week 3′
[Past Posts: Photo-a-Day 2008; Week 1]
Nearly half-way through now! It’s getting difficult to think of new ideas, but I’ve had some results I’ve been pleased with this week. Here’s a run-down of photos from the second week:
I think this one, from 7 July, is my favourite so far. Lego + Star Wars = Double-Cool 
On the 8th, several other DVDF members also taking part in this challenge had taken photographs of their guitars. Picking up this theme, I decided to use my Guitar Hero controller and took this. I like the colours, and I think the vignetting (added in post-processing) works well.
I’ve not taken many photos of people, but it’s something I’d like to get better at. I had my lovely girlfriend staying with me so I chose a portrait to be my photo for day 9. I’m quite pleased with the result:
Read on for days 10-14…
Continue reading ‘Photo-a-Day: Week 2′
Well, I’ve made it to the first weekend. Following on from my last post, I took a couple of photographs indoors for days 2 and 3; first a slightly lazy shot of my laptop and then a more interesting arrangement of video game controllers:
Also on the 3rd, I was leaving college in the afternoon and saw this fantastic reflection in the Hyatt, which I had used as the subject for day one. I was a little miffed at not having had such a good reflection to use for my previous shot, especially given the contrast to the dark, moody sky, but I didn’t have my camera on me anyway:
On day 4 I took this shot from the canal, facing towards The Mailbox:
At the weekend, I thought I’d try some different things. So on Saturday I went out and bought a couple of bags of Skittles and spent half an hour dropping them onto a table. I had the camera on a tripod, remote release in one hand and a bowl of Skittles to tip onto the table in the other; and roped in my housemate to hold a lamp providing light from the front. This was the result:
Continuing the different techniques theme, today I had a go at using a reversed lens to create a macro setup. See the description below the photo on flickr (which you can find by clicking on the picture below) for more details on the setup I used.
Here we go again: it’s time to dust off the camera and take one photo a day for a whole month. There’ll be some panicked moments when inspiration is running low and I can’t find a decent shot, but I hope to end up with some interesting results and aim to up the standard from last year’s project, which produced several photos I was really pleased with.
As before, this is part of a DVD Forums project; for more information refer to this thread. This is also where everyone will be posting their photos as the month goes on - it’ll be well worth the look as there are 30+ people signed up and there are sure to be some stellar results.
My photos will be appearing in this flickr set, and I shall also be discussing them here on Spatho.com every week or so.
Today’s effort (inset, above) was snapped as I walked to college at 8.30 this morning; I saw these window cleaners on the side of the Hyatt hotel on Broad Street - rather them than me!
Finally, for those who missed my photos from last year’s Photo-a-Day for July, you can find them here. They make up the rather lovely mosaic shown below.
I bought some Moo MiniCards last week, and I’m pretty chuffed with them. Selecting and cropping some of my flickr photos was quick and easy, and from there delivery was pretty speedy (I ordered late on Wednesday evening, and they arrived on Saturday).
Each card is tiny and pretty appealing, with my details on the back. I have 100; now I just have to figure out what I’m going to do with them…
You can see a larger shot of the cards here (with apologies for the dodgy, flat photograph).
I haven’t posted here in a while, partly because I didn’t have much to say and partly because time has passed so quickly I can’t believe it has been nearly six months since my last effort. Six months! Hmm.
Anyway, I intend to resume posting a little more regularly now, probably more with photos than anything else. To kick this off I have changed the style of the site, giving it a groovy new look. This is still a work in progress, and I have for the moment borrowed heavily from someone else’s style as it has the kind of colour scheme I want to move to. I will be tweaking this though; in particular changing some of the fonts as I’m not keen on them.
In the meantime, the other big shift is in the header images you see above. I’ve gone for a selection of my photos which lend themselves well to the letterbox-type crop. As always, you can find the full versions of them along with my other photos on flickr.
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been slowly working through a backlog of photos from the summer. I’ve put a bunch up on my flickr page already, and more will follow in a trickle over the next few days weeks months, but for the moment here are some of my favourites.
These three are from Helsinki during a visit to Finland for Richard’s wedding:
[This last one looks better larger and on black.]
Click on each picture for larger versions, and read on for some photos from this country…
Continue reading ‘Recent Photos’
Well, I managed it! That is, I successfully took one photo every day in July (as described in my previous post), and posted them all to my flickr group. Here is a mosaic of the resulting images:
I’d be very interested to hear any comments you have on any (or all!) of these photos, either here or on flickr.
