We have relocated

Hi,

Thank you for all that have visited my blog since it was open, even if it was mis-click. I am however, moving to a new a home, I will leave this blog as it is, and if you want to check out the new blog please follow the link below.

I will be posting an image everyday as well as the occasional tutorial, techniques and links to useful resources. Hope to see you soon.

The Passionate Mute (new home)

Bouquet

Shot through the window, the sun was directly behind me reflecting strongly on the top pane. Picture taken in b&w and color altered in photoshop during post-processing. Thanks for looking.

Photograph details:

ISO: 200
Aperture: f/4.5
Exposure: 1/210s
Focal length: 17.0 mm

Abstract

Photograph details:

ISO: 200
Aperture: f/2.8
Exposure: 1/4s
Focal length: 8.0 mm

Muse

This is Olivia, my muse. I was feeling a lack of creativity and had some spare time so decided to take a walk in the near-by park. That's where I met Olivia who was being walked by her owner. She gracefully posed for the shot for long enough for me capture several shots. This is by far my favourite - it not special because of the technical aspects (lighting, composition etc.) but it helped me regain my confidence in photography.

Photograph details:

ISO: 200
Aperture: f/2.8
Exposure: 1/90s
Focal length: 9.0 mm

Cityscape

I took this shot whilst on a random bus journey - when returing from university I took the bus which takes me back near where I live but I didn't know of the route. The bus took a extremely long way around (it took 2hrs+ where as the other route takes 30min). It did present me with great photographic oppurtnities, this shot was taken through the bus window - in the foreground is the railway bridge and in the distance is the church. I just liked the composition - the image was taken in b&w and I later adjusted the color to a darker grey in photoshop. Enjoy.

Photograph details:

ISO: 200
Aperture: f/3.1
Exposure: 1/52s
Focal length: 38.0 mm

Doorway

So, lately I've just been in a monochrome mood - this shot is of the main entrance of the children's centre near where I live. It was nice sunny day and the glass reflected the light extremely well allowing me to meter to get a high contrast. I shot the image in b&w and later tweaked with the levels in photoshop to achieve what can be seen below.

Photograph details:

ISO: 200
Aperture: f/5.6
Exposure: 1/300s
Focal length: 18.0 mm

Nature abstract

Sorry all, I haven't been posting recently but blogger has been rather erratic lately (at least with my account). Anyways thanks all who have commented on my photos, your comments are appriciated, so thank you again.

Right, an abstract then, this started as a mistake. I was photographing a flower and because of the camera shake i got a blurred image - it seemed intresting to me but something was missing! I then just went about placing random objects with the flower and taking shots this one is off the flower with part of my blue t-shirt in shot. Enjoy and thanks for viewing.

Photograph details:

ISO: 200
Aperture: f/2.8
Exposure: 1/4s
Focal length: 8.0 mm

A view of passion

Taken again during the performance of Pygmalion at Keele University. I adjusted the levels because I wanted a very glamorous look and wanted to make the image appear as if the two bodies were merging in to each other at least in the black area. It was of great help that the costumes and background contrasted so well. Enjoy.

Photograph details:

ISO: 200
Aperture: f/3.1
Exposure: 1/16s
Focal length: 47.0 mm

A character view #2

Photograph details:

ISO: 200
Aperture: f/3.1
Exposure: 1/60s
Focal length: 47.0 mm

A character view #1

Picture take at Keele University during the performance of Pygmalion and edited in Photoshop CS2. Enjoy.

Photograph details:

ISO: 200
Aperture: f/3.1
Exposure: 1/100s
Focal length: 47.0 mm

Artificiality - Part 2

Photograph details:

ISO: 200
Aperture: f/2.8
Exposure: 1/7s
Focal length: 8.0 mm

Artificiality - Part 1

Photograph details:

ISO: 200
Aperture: f/2.8
Exposure: 1/4s
Focal length: 8.0 mm

Experiment in high key

I haven't really done many high-key photos before but when I saw this composition I had to try it out. Enjoy.

Photograph details:

ISO: 200
Aperture: f/4.5
Exposure: 1/240s
Focal length: 18.0 mm

A walk in the park

As the title says - Just a simple photo converted to b&w in photoshop.

Photograph details:

ISO: 160
Aperture: f/6.3
Exposure: 1/350s
Focal length: 8.0 mm

Cottage

I wanted to go for something a bit more unusual - I don't I seemed to have lost confidence in my photography recently, which is really bad as I've had to shoot gigs, plays and other such events recently.

I wanted different results, but I was quite happy with the results here. I loved the contrast especially with the trees and the sky. Have fun viewing.

Photograph details:

ISO: 200
Aperture: f/5.6
Exposure: 1/320s
Focal length: 26.0 mm

Ducky

I think this is a duck, I don't know - But anyways it was walking along the side of the pond near my house, I tried to get as close as I could and since I didn't have a zoom lens. But it was really fun to photograph this - it was freezing cold and I was lying on my stomach crawling bit-by-bit trying to sneak up on the duck(?) - it was awesome.

Photograph details:

ISO: 200
Aperture: f/4.5
Exposure: 1/210s
Focal length: 47.0 mm

Bench

I wanted an isolate feelings from this shot but at the same time wanted to put them under the spotlight. I don't know, I didn't like the shot at first but now well....

Photograph details:

ISO: 160
Aperture: f/5.6
Exposure: 1/300s
Focal length: 22.0 mm

Piercing...

We found this piercing on the floor (I think) - that's more or less it, no real story behind it - we were discussing what sort of piercing it was - I thought it looked cool so took a photo - simple.

Photograph details:

ISO: 200
Aperture: f/4.5
Exposure: 1/20s
Focal length: 8.0 mm

Shadow play

Again taken at the vagian monologues, I suppose I was just luck to capture this - it just intrigued me. Thanks for looking.

Photograph details:

ISO: 200
Aperture: f/3.1
Exposure: 1/110s
Focal length: 47.0 mm

Monologues image #1

These images were shot at the vagina monologues... which is an intresting play (to say the least). I like these especially because of the dramatic lighting and the expressions from the actresses. I apologise I don't the names of the actresses. Anyways, enjoy.

Photograph details:

ISO: 200
Aperture: f/3.1
Exposure: 1/240s
Focal length: 47.0 mm

P.s. Sorry I haven't been able to post much recently this is due a combination of blogger refusing to listen to me and me being too busy, will definitely try and do better.

Monologues image #2

Same note as above.

Photograph details:

ISO: 200
Aperture: f/3.1
Exposure: 1/60s
Focal length: 47.0 mm

Daisy again

Another picture of a daisy taken early in the morning. I was experimenting with the capabilities of my camera and more specifically the macro lens on how close I could go.

Photograph details:

ISO: 200
Aperture: f/2.8
Exposure: 1/58s
Focal length: 8.0 mm

It also seems that I've been doing a lot of digital stuff lately, but because I haven't used Photoshop for so long I have forgotten much of it so I opened up this image in photoshop and jazzed it up a bit - I was trying for a fashion look. Thanks for looking.

Daisy

Here in England, especially near where I live - there are no flowers, or aleast they haven't bloomed yet. So having some free time I decided to go around shooting anything that I could find. And the only thing I found was a daisy.

I love shooting daisy's they are so simple, yet can give a whole host of compositions. I wanted to display the full character of the daisy - how it stands alone but proud and glows in its own beauty. Enjoy.

Photograph details:

ISO: 200
Aperture: f/2.8
Exposure: 1/34s
Focal length: 8.0 mm

Fallen

Hi there. I haven't been able to sleep for two days, and I had a neuroscience test in the morning today. So after spending a entire night memorizing the anatomy of the fetal brain; I went out for a walk early morning with my camera so that I could relax. I couldn't find anything for a while and then I saw this feather just lying there, it was strange since there were no other feathers around apart from this one.

Again I was taking pics in b&w, and it was nice and sunny but because of the angle I used my two reflectors for additional light. I later edited the image in photoshop messing with the levels because I wanted a errored/degraded look as the bird is losing a part of it. Anyways, enjoy the view.

Photograph details:

ISO: 200
Aperture: f/2.8
Exposure: 1/42s
Focal length: 8.0 mm

Abstract

I was sitting in the bar, passing time in between lectures - with a choice of either studying or doing nothing I took the more obvious choice of doing nothing. So there I was, sitting around a table doing absolutely nothing - I took out my camera and started snapping away and anything that was around. Using my wide-angle lens and utilizing the macro function I pointed the camera on the table and I saw this awesome pattern.

Edited later in photoshop to get the colors that can be seen here. One thing I don't like about this shot is the engraved "M" that seems to be in frame. I didn't notice at the time I took the image, oh well... Thanks for viewing.

Photograph details:

ISO: 200
Aperture: f/2.8
Exposure: 1/4s
Focal length: 8.0 mm

Berries

I saw these berries hanging off on to the pavement on my way to university. I ran back home grabbed my camera and took a shot. I didn't really know how to compose them, just that I had to take a photo. I was pretty happy with the composition, I did at one point think to fill the entire frame with just the berries. I tried this and it just didn't work for me. Anwyays, here it is - I loved the dew drop still hanging fromt the berries.

Photograph details:

ISO: 200
Aperture: f/2.8
Exposure: 1/26s
Focal length: 8.0 mm

Zip

This was taken on the same day, I was sitting on the bus and didn't have anything to do - its a grueling 40 min. journey. I had my camera still from the berries incident, so decided to mess about. I saw this compositon as I was taking the camera out of my bag. Luckily the sun highlighted the worn out zip and gave good contrast. Enjoy.

Photograph details:

ISO: 200
Aperture: f/2.9
Exposure: 1/6s
Focal length: 13.0 mm