Favorite of the month

Hey all,

And so we say good bye to April, and hello to May and completion of 1/3 of the 365 (actually 366 due to the leap year) challenge!

Time to reflect on the past 30 days of photos, and chose my favorite.

Day 118 - the contrast between the flowers being in colour and the backgrounds being in mono I think works really well. I like the almost industrial feel to some of them.

Day 119 - Simon the snail. I love the angle, the subject and the colour tone of this shot. And the fact that Simon came to my rescue when I was in such a rush!

The winner.......

Simon the snail!

And now over to you.....what was your favorite day?

Much love, and thank you all so much for keeping with me. 244 days to go!

Adam

365 Challenge - Day 121

Evening ladies and gents

Another shot of the lilly flower tonight, (the fiancee requested it) Couldn't quite get 'the' shot, but it's getting late and I have chores still to do!

Result....

Camera - shutter 1/200, ISO 250, f/22. Post - little bump in contrast, had to tidy up some of the background.

Much love!

Adam

365 Challenge - Day 120

Afternoon all.

Hope everyone has had a great weekend, and enjoying a relaxing Sunday afternoon!

Had a great time last night with family, much love to all of them!

Quick shot a incredible lilly flower.

Result....

Camera - ISO 1000, shutter 1/200, f/5.6. Post - little vignette.

Much love!

Adam

365 Challenge - Day 119

Morning!

It is 9:30am, and I have 30minutes before I need to be out of the door (I have a family shin-dig down in Essex this weekend) I am stressing out, I haven't packed, or anything. And on top of that....I have to upload a photo.....a photo! Of what?! I racked my brains....and couldn't find anything.

Then I looked out of the window, with hope in my heart....and what did I find?

Result.....

Everyone, meet Simon. Simon, meet everyone! Camera - f/5.6, ISO 200, 1/15. Post - bump in contrast, and a little tweak in the colour curves!

Much love.

Adam

365 Challenge - Day 118

Evening everyone!

Hope you are all enjoying the start of the weekend.

Had some fun with flowers and selective colouring tonight.

Results....

Shot 1 - ISO 640, shutter 1/200, f/5.6. Post - selective colouring, big jump in contrast and saturation to make the flowers stand out from the mono background. Vignette.

Shot 2 - camera - f/3.5, ISO 640, shutter 1/800. Post - selective colour, jump in contrast, and vignette.

Shot 3 - camera - f/4.5, ISO 640, shutter 1/50. Post - selective colouring, jump in contrast and vignette.

Shot 4 (bonus!) I really love the colours in this shot, so left it as it is, and didn't use selective colouring. Camera - f/3.5, ISO 640, shutter 1/100. Post - little push of contrast.

Much love

Adam

365 Challenge - Day 117

Evening all,

Something a little different today. I found an interesting post on a site I check out yesterday, of a video (check it out here )

The video instructs you to set you camera to 1 second shutter speed, and aperture of f/5.6, and on a tripod. Focus in on the video, and when the video zooms in to the TV screen that is showing the coloured pixels flashing, start shooting away.

Results....

And as a bonus...there was a rainbow outside!

Much love.

Adam

365 Challenge - Day 116

Evening folks!

I am shattered again tonight! The gym is hard as nails at the moment!

We are currently in a state of 'drought' in parts of the UK (where I am) So thought it strange that today we were warned of floods.

Yeah. Floods.

Result....

Rain rain, go away....actually, stay for a bit. Camera - ISO 1250, shutter 1/200, f/10. Post, little crop and vignette.

Much love.

Adam

365 Challenge - Day 115

Good evening!

Late one tonight - sorry about that. Long session in the gym, and a look around the new Sainsburys in Ely (such a rock and roll life I lead!)

Anyway - photos.

Result.....

Camera - ISO 200, f/22, shutter 1/200. Post - tweak to brightness and contrast. Little crop!

Much love

Adam

365 Challenge - Day 114

Evening chaps and chapettes!

Had a hard time thinking of the photo tonight. The teddy bear door stop wanted to get involved, so I let him.

Result.....

Who's at the door, Teddy Bear Door Stop? Camera - f/5.6, ISO 800, shutter 1/4. Post - none!

Much love

Adam

New photos up on Facebook!

Hey all

3 posts in one day! Yikes.

Anyway - there are new photos up on Facebook, of the lovely kiddies Freddie, Max and Isabelle

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.449556508394287.127076.364025543614051&type=3

Thanks to them and the mums for a great shoot!

Much love

Adam

365 Challenge - Day 113

Afternoon all,

I wanted to get out and about today, but the weather today is very.....miserable. Lot's of rain around. So I took the chance to do another attempt at 'reverse lens' macro shot! (at the request of my Fiancee)

Result.....

So this is the flower that I tried the technique out. This is with the lens the right way around, of course. Camera - f/1.8, ISO 200, shutter 1/320. Post - added little vignette.

And these last two shots are with the lens the other way around! Camera - ISO 800, shutter 1/30, f/1.8 (all in reverse?!) Post - little vignette to the top most shot, that's it.

Much love

Adam

Need a makeup artist? Look no further!

Hey all,

Just wanted to give a big shout out to a fantastic up and coming makeup artist Tracey, over at Makeup By Tracey

I had a great shoot with her recently, check out the results at the gallery 

Much love

Adam

365 Challenge - Day 112

Evening!

A rather random mix of photos today, from bras to cricket.

Result.....

I have no idea why there is a line of connected bras, I really don't. But there were HUNDREDS.  Camera - ISO 1000, 1/4000, f/5.6. Post processing - Vignette, colour curve tweak.

And here are the people picking all the bras up (I think they were picking them up anyway) Camera - ISO 1000, f/5.6, 1/2000. Post - turn to mono, and vignette.

And good old English cricket! Camera - ISO 1000, f/8, 1/2000. Post - turn to mono and vignette

An old [fake] sea dog above a cornish pasty shop. Camera - ISO 1000, 1/2000, f/7.1. Post - Colour curve tweak, and vignette.

The sky was pretty impressive on the way home today - but as I didn't have my tripod I couldn't capture it quite how I wanted to. I tried anyway. Camera - ISO 400, 1/400, f/18. Post - tweaked a lot while in RAW (like brightness, contrast, shadow protection) then added vignette, cropped and colour curve tweaks.


Much love

Adam

365 Challenge - Day 111

Hey all,

Day 111! Brillaint!

Grabbed this quick shot today with my phone - so no details. I though it was ironic that he was trying to sell ice cream on such a cloudy, cold, rainy day!

After this shot drove off, only to stop and asked me if there was a problem, and why I had photographed him!

Have a great weekend!

Much love

Adam

365 Challenge - Day 110

Evening folks!

Little science experiment tonight, within a photo!

Result.....

So instead of explaining the camera, I will explain what the hell is going on in the photo! That is a white balloon on the left hand side, and of course that is water from the tap. If you rub the balloon and get it full of static electric then place it near running water.....this happens. It bends towards it. I haven't looked up why it does this....I assume it is the mineral/metal content in water that makes it bend....who knows! Looks funky though.

Go try it for yourself!

Much love

Adam

365 Challenge - Day 109

Evening folks,

Another attempt at the weekly challenge tonight (panning) I am finding this weeks very useful, as I have never tried panning shots before.

Result......

Camera - ISO 1600, shutter 1/25, f.5.6. Post processing - had to adjust exposure a little, turned to mono, cropped, bumped contrast, and vignette!

Much love

Adam

365 Challenge - Day 108

Evening all,

Quick shot of a stormy sky this evening!

Result....

Camera - Shutter 1/4000, f/7.1, ISO 2000. Post processing, tweak to exposure compensation, turn to mono, little vignette to the top of the frame.

Much love!

Adam

New portrait shoot now uploaded!

Hey guys,

Thought I would let you know that I have just uploaded some photos from one of the shoots I have done over the last week or so.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.444716448878293.126228.364025543614051&type=3

Thanks to the girls for a great shoot!

Much love

Adam

365 Challenge - Day 107

Evening all!

Another photo for the weekly challenge over at Digitalrev.com. This week the theme was 'panning'. Thanks to Raph for helping me out with tonight's shot - I enlisted him before our basketball session to throw my bball up and catch it, all while I was panning with the ball to catch the shot. The ball in focus, the background blurred!

Result....

Took a few attempts to get a shot that had the ball in focus, and a blurred, 'action' background! Camera - ISO 800, shutter 1/40, f/4. Post processing - none!

Much love

Adam

Look at this! I'm [almost, not really] famous!

Hey guys,

I was checking my profile over at Digitalrev.com, where I also upload my 365 challenge photos, and look what I found.....

Yup that is yours truly on the 'discover tab'. It's the page people go to discover new members, photos that are getting a lot of attention, and trending cameras etc.

I am featured under 'revving up' group which basically means a member is becoming popular with the community! But not only that I also have two photos on the 'trending camera' line too - my bubble shot from Day 101 and candid portrait shoot from day 100.

I am very proud - it is a big achievement for me, to be recognised by my fellow photographers in this way.

Thanks to everyone that follows my blog too - I appreciated you all!

Much, much love!

Adam

386 Challenge - Day 106

Evening everyone!

Hope all have had a great weekend. Had a great photo shoot today (pictures coming soon!)

Cats, and sunsets.....

Result....

Shot 1 - Camera - f/5.6, 1/200, ISO 2500. Post processing - Mono, contrast bump, vignette added.

Shot 2 - Camera - f/8, ISO 2500, shutter 1/200. Post processing - Mono, contrast bump, and vignette.

Shot 3 - Camera - f/7.1, ISO 400, shutter 1/1600. Post processing - crop, and a vignette.

Shot 4 - Camera - ISO 400, 1/4000, f/7.1. Post processing - Very slight contrast bump.

Shot 5 -  Camera - f/7.1, ISO 1600, 1/200. Post processing - Vignette, contrast, colour curve tweak.

 Shot 6 - Camera - ISO 400, f/7.1, shutter 1/640. Post processing - little bump to contrast.

Much love!

Adam

365 Challenge - Day 105

Morning!

Even puppets need to do their makeup........

Result.....

Camera - f/5.3, shutter 1/40, ISO 1600. Post processing - tweak birghtness and contrast, colour curves. Vignette added.

Much love!

Adam

365 Challenge - Day 104

Evening, and almost good night, folks!

Spent the evening with the in laws tonight, and they came up with some interesting things to photograph.

Result.....

This is a picture of my in laws great Grandfather. So a picture of a picture. I have added this because I love old vintage shots of people.

Camera - D60 used, ISO 400, f/4, 1/80. Post processing - bump in contrast, and tweak to colour curves.

Much love

Adam

365 Challenge - Day 103

Evening all,

My fiancee picked up my D60 last night and went snapping around the house. She came back with some terrific results....so much so that I have copied/taken inspiration from one of them tonight!

Result.....

This is my laptop - very matrix. Camera - f/2, ISO 800, shutter 1/15. Post processing - straighten, contrast bump and drop brightness, and a crop.

Much love!

Adam

365 Challenge - Day 102

Evening all, 

First day back at work today....booo!

But had a little visitor when I returned home.....

Result....

 Shot 1 - Camera - ISO 3200, shutter 1/2000, f/5.6. Post processing - Colour curve tweak, vignette.

Shot 2 - Camera - shutter 1/4000, ISO 3200, f/5.6. Post processing - Big jump in contrast, and lowering in brightness.

Much love!

Adam

365 Challenge - Day 101

Afternoon all,

Had a great shoot with some lovely kiddies today (Thanks Freddie, Max, and Isabelle for being so cute!) and took the chance to take my photo for the challenge.

Kids love bubbles....

Result.....

Camera - ISO 500, f/5, shutter 1/3200. Post processing - Crop, drop brightness a little, tweak colour curves.

Much love

Adam

365 Challenge - Day 100

Hey hey!

So my blog turns one hundred today! 100 days since I started this crazy challenge!

Lots of ups, and probably more downs, but definitive more to come!

The fiancee was hard at work today, while I was playing with the D90.

Result.....

Camera - ISO 3200, shutter 1/15, f/5.6. Post processing - change to mono, contrast bump, and darken the right of the frame.

Much love!

Adam

365 Challenge - Day 99

Evening folks.

Hope everyone had a great weekend, and those of you that are lucky enough (like myself) to have an extended one due to bank holiday tomorrow, are still enjoying it!

Had a great day with family today - and took some shoots of the illusive cat 'Tilly'

Result....

Shot 1 - Camera - Using my new D90 for the first time in anger today! ISO 3200 (STAGGERING quality for such high ISO, I am VERy happy!) shutter 1/13, f/5.6. Post processing - Little bump to brightness and contrast, vignette and colour curve tweak.

Shot 2 - Camera - shutter 1/20, ISO 3200, f/5.6. Post processing - Mono, colour tweak to sepia, and vignette.

Much love!

Adam

365 Challenge - Day 98

Afternoon,

So I picked up my lovely new camera today, a Nikon D90 with a 18-200mm Nikon lens.....oh and a whole load of other goodies that I didn't know where part of the deal!

I will post about the camera soon, once I get to grips with it, so look out for that.

Result.....

Beautiful!

Much love

Adam

365 Challenge - Day 97

Evening ladies and gents

Had a fun day with one of my nephews, and took the chance to take a picture of some brightly coloured blocks!

Result....

Camera - f/2, ISO 200, shutter 1/640. Post processing - colour curve and contrast tweak, added vignette.

Hope everyone is ok!

Much love

Adam

365 Challenge - Day 96

Evening folks!

Late one tonight as we have been out for a curry, and a Robbie Williams tribute act - great night with great friends!

I decorated my pint with some stars...

Result....

Camera - taken on my fiancees iPhone! ISO 500, f/2.4, shutter 1/15. Post processing - contrast bump, turn to mono and vignette.

Much love!

Adam 

Cars, cars....well car actually!

Hey all,

Just wanted to share a couple of photos of a beautiful Mk1 Escort I took last year. I uploaded them as part of a weekly challenge I am involved in on another site and thought I would share them here, as they are getting a lot of attention....mainly from petrol heads!

Much love

Adam

365 Challenge - Day 95

Evening all!

Another 'product' type shoot tonight.

Result....

Camera - f/10, ISO 200, shutter 1/60. Pop up flash used to trigger the speedlight off to the side. Post processing - darkened the corner to the right, bumped contrast, and tweaked colour curves a little.

Much love!

Adam