Ulster Museum (architecture)

So I got up reasonably early this morning to do practice shots for my next assignment.

I am working on an architecture theme which needs to be shot on colour transparency!

I have decided to go for the Ulster Museum as it's just about to re-open and I was hoping for some great architectural detail.

So off I went, pretty darn cold this morning, but nice and crisp with the suggestion of blue sky out there. Stopped off for a sneaky Starbucks on the way (needed change for parking, honest) I parked at the new Queens University library, which incidentally is a pretty great looking new building as well (perhaps my back up plan). I walked over to the museum but was slightly disappointed to see fencing all the way around it, it's not actually due to re-open until the 22nd, so I should have expected something like that. I did however managed to get a few abstract shots of the corners. But what it unexpectedly allowed me to do was get a real sense of the building.

I have been doing some art history work in college, which is extremely fascinating, and proving to help me a lot in my work. There is an early photographer called Frederick Evans, and something he said about his work has managed to stay with me. He tried to get a sense of the building of which he was about to photograph, if the building could speak what would it say, is it possible to capture the essence of this piece of architecture. This has helped me so much, as initially architecture was not something I was particularly fond of capturing.

So that being said, although I could take that many many pictures today, I did stand in front of the building for quite some time thinking about how the building made me feel and how I can transfer this later when I get a chance to get closer to the architectural detail.

Until I get the opportunity to get more shots, here's just the one to wet your appetite :)

Kaz

iPhone art

Hi again,

Well now I'm also working on a bit of an iPhone photo gallery. I'm using an app which works great for some quick creative editing.
I'm just going to be documenting me and the things I see around me, and I'll try to make these images as interesting as possible..
Here's what I have so far, let me know what you think :)


















-- Post From My iPhone

Feeling Good

Well, I guess it's time for a bit more web space to be taken up by a rant from me :)

Saturday was a lovely day, so it was a great opportunity to head up the North Coast with my camera.

I am trying to work on a bit of a project at the moment, I keep changing my mind on the specifics, but we'll just see where it all takes me.

I asked Pete where his favourite place was in Northern Ireland, the place he feels most relaxed and can really let go. I should have know (he's always talking about it) he picked the White Rocks Beach up at Portrush. I thought it would be a really nice idea to capture people at their happiest. We are all constantly rushing about, stressing over this and that, and working too hard these days. So I believe it's nice to capture people in their most peaceful state, it's something we don't really see too often. Maybe it's me that's rushing about too much and not noticing that people are happy and enjoying life. That said I wanted to try and get this freedom captured as naturally as possible.

Pete did a great job, he's very photogenic and was able to just take himself off round the beach and not worry about a big camera all up in his face!

Below I have a few examples of what I shot, I'm pretty happy with the outcome, lots more to come though. I just need more volunteers? Where are your favourite places, where do you go to clear the mind...

Come to think of it I don't even know where my place is...

K

Hopes and Dreams

Having positive thoughts and taking my life where I want it to is in the forefront of my mind right now. So thought I'd grab my camera and capture this little blurb..

K

The Bucket List

HDR Photography

Greetings...

I have just began experimenting with HDR photography as of today actually, so I thought I'd take to my blog and talk a bit about it.

So HDR (high dynamic range) is basically taking the same photograph in 3 different exposures and then merging them together later in Photoshop. You have to use a tripod so as every scene is captured in exactly the same position.

Today was a great day so I headed off to Castlewellan to see what I could find (incidentally I did this after stopping off at tesco to take advantage of the great wine offer they have on at the moment) Anyway, yes so I arrived at Castlewellan, and obvious as it is I headed for the castle as I figured this was the best place to start. I had a magazine with an article about capturing the images with me, (you didn't think I could do it without some point of reference did you?)

I set up my gear and proceeded to take what I needed, it was lovely just getting away on my own, I even packed a lunch! I didn't feel particularly inspired to capture anything else so I headed home to get to work on some post production.

So below we have to of my best efforts, lots more to practice on in this area, got to try and think what else what be a great subject... Feel free to suggest something :)

It's a great new thing to try, and I believe it gives the pictures a great bit of punch. but got to be careful not to over do it.

K

The Final Piece

Here we have my final piece for the very last assignment for this year.

This is it all framed and ready to go to college tomorrow, complete with plastic still around the edges, oh and complete with a reflection of me, have to give the sense of glass ya know ;)

It turned out pretty decent, but sure true to form I've looked at it that much i'm not really a fan... The workbook is nearly complete, not the best work I've ever done, but it goes in to pretty decent detail about what I was trying to achieve here, maybe you'd like to put your own spin on that?

Hope you like..

Kaz x