National Sealife Centre panoramic

30 May 2008
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Birmingham is one of my least favourite cities, as everyone who knows me can tell you, but there were still a few places that I liked which include this area near Brindleyplace. Funny that I lived in Birmingham for almost exactly 9 years but I never went inside the National Sealife Centre, but it certainly [...]

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Old Town Edinburgh Vertical Panoramics

1 March 2008
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As you can see throughout this blog I really enjoy shooting panoramics. Something I’ve always wanted to try is shooting vertical panoramics and Edinburgh’s Old Town is surrounded by really fascinating Closes steeped in history. Today is just an experiment with vertical panoramics using a very standard tripod head but completely level tripod. As a [...]

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Liv portrait shoot

13 February 2008
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I’ve done a few shoots with Liv but rather than post seperate posts for her, I’ve put all of her studio shots in one post. I really like photographing Liv as she will literally do as she’s told when I want her to strike certain poses. Sometimes she’ll argue with me a bit about doing [...]

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Symphony Hall Birmingham Panoramic

15 January 2008
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On 22nd November 2006 I was comissioned as part of a college project to take any photos of the interior of the Symphony Hall and Town Hall. This was my first big architectural/interior project and I’ve always loved fisheye lenses so I wanted to see what I could come up with. I’m pretty happy with [...]

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Portrait session with Dave

1 November 2007
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Recently I did a studio shoot with Dave. Dave is definitely one of the more fun subjects I have photographed and here are some of the more fun photos. The brief was to do a portfolio type photo and while we did that (I could include it here) I like the fun photos more. As [...]

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Darren portrait

1 September 2007
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Today I did a simple single portrait as part of a demonstration. The other photos from this shoot showed the effects of changing the angles of diffusers/softboxes so probably aren’t worth posting but this is my favourite from the shoot. This photo was literally taken with just a single softbox and a reflector bouncing light [...]

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Birmingham landscape photos

20 August 2007
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Today I have for you a compilation of my favourite photos from the time I lived in Birmingham. I lived in Birmingham for a total of 9 years, almost to the month, but I was quite happy to leave there. This isn’t to say Birmingham is a bad place but sometimes you fit into a [...]

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Zhujiajiao China

2 August 2007
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Zhu Jia Jiao, which is about an hour’s drive from Shanghai, was the last place we travelled to in July 2007. Zhu Jia Jiao was formed around 1700 years ago and is based around a large canal system. When we went there it was easily the hotest day I have experienced in my life, it [...]

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Terracotta Army, Xi’an

27 July 2007
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Here is my final post from Xi’an. We were there for a total of 5 days but we managed to check out quite a lot of Xi’an. We went to muslim street almost everyday, had a wander around the Drum Tower and visited a few restaurants. On the final day we were in Xi’an we [...]

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Tang Dynasty Theatre Show Xi’an

25 July 2007
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I was originally going to incorporate the below into another post but I loved the show so much I’ve created a post just for itself. We stayed in the Bell Tower hotel in central Xi’an and decided to go to a show organised by the hotel, just to check out Chinese culture. We went to [...]

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