Louise's Photo Blog

Giveaway!

2009-09-03T22:29:00.001+01:00

Ian Parry Award

2009-08-04T12:37:00.002+01:00

There are lots of young photojournalists out there trying to find a market and get themselves noticed and one way to do this is to win the Ian Parry Award, no easy task mind you.
Ian Parry was a photojournalist who died while on assignment for The Sunday Times during the Romanian revolution in 1989 aged 24. A scholarship was created by Aidan Sullivan and Ian's friends and family. Each year, young photographers who are either attending a full-time photographic course or are under 24 can submit work. Previous winners include Harriet Logan, Simon Roberts, Marcus Bleasdale and Ivor Pricket.
This year's winner is Maisie Crow, who is a graduate of the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University and currently an intern at the Boston Globe.

You can see all of her pictures here

Content from BBC website - link as above

The one taken on a REALLY frosty morning

2009-07-30T19:00:00.001+01:00

Taken on a really frosty morning. a few months ago

The other one of the back garden

2009-07-29T18:58:00.000+01:00

Taken a few months ago loved how the tree looked against the sky. Gosh I REALLY need some new material!

The one with the cold beach

2009-07-28T18:55:00.002+01:00

Dont you just love the beach in winter?

The one with the wellies

2009-07-28T18:53:00.000+01:00

Just what we need for those lovely British summers!

The one with the colourful old school bus

2009-07-27T22:19:00.002+01:00

I took this on a trip to Aruba a few months ago. Isn't the colour just gorgeous....and the beach.....ohhhhhh I wanna go back there :)

The one of the interesting building

2009-07-26T16:46:00.000+01:00

The design of Peasholm Island was inspired by the scene depicted on the willow pattern plate. The island sits in a large-ish lake in Peasholm Park at North Bay in Scarborough.

The one with mum smiling

2009-07-25T00:34:00.001+01:00

She hates her wrinkles so I did a flattering effect on them LOL

The one with the sick cat

2009-07-24T00:24:00.003+01:00

Our cat was rushed to the vet a few months ago. Sooooo scary. I honestly thought he wasn't going to survive the night. He was diagnosed with acute pancreatitis and was to sick to eat but needed to to prevent liver failure so he had a feeding tube (oesophagostomy) put in. He had it for 2 weeks and had to be fed 6 times a day...it was exhausting. Poor thing...

Photo-a-day: The one with the doorway

2009-07-23T18:01:00.001+01:00

Don't ask me why but I like doorways LOL

Photo-a-day: Nairn beach

2009-07-22T06:59:00.000+01:00

Nairn beach - taken August 2008. This place is soooo beautiful!

Photo-a-day: View from our bedroom window

2009-07-21T12:44:00.001+01:00

Ooooh how exciting I hear you say? LOL

Photo-a-day: Royal Yacht Britannia at Leith

2009-07-20T08:03:00.003+01:00

Aaaaahhhhh....happy memories. This pic was taken last year on a trip to see my sister in Scotland. Andy and I are a fan of ships so my sister took us to see the Royal Yacht Britannia at Leith near Edinburgh.

I liked this picture because even though its a bit dull and flat (taken with my old naff camera) I like the way that it illustrates one of my favourite activities....people watching. I like people-watching....its free....available anywhere...and I find people interesting.

Incidentally the person in the photo isn't just a regular person that I was spying on - its my sister....my twin sister. Did I mention already that I'm a twin?

Did you find me in yesterdays photo-a-day?

A fun photo-a-day for you today

2009-07-19T17:52:00.006+01:00

Ok I have a fun photo-a-day for you today. I took this photo in the ships restaurant on a trip I took last year. If you click on the photo it will be much bigger and you'll be able to see me hiding in a reflection somewhere. Can you find me?

Over-cooked

2009-07-18T07:29:00.004+01:00

I took this photo last summer in a small village about 6 miles away from my house. It was a really stormy day although I kind of killed the photo (some might say) by over doing the HDR. I was still learning how to do HDR at the time and kind of realised that actually I quite liked the over-cooked look. So anyway I recognise its not everyone's cup of tea....but I love the drama of it :)

The one with the cat

2009-07-17T07:24:00.004+01:00

This was the first picture I took with my new camera (Canon Eos 450d). It was taken on fully auto as I didn't know how to use the functions back then. Of course I kind of know how to use them now :)

This photo is only a snap really but I've posted it because....well I think its sweet. I remember being totally amazed that I could see the texture in his fur....even the bits that weren't focused on. With my old Sony camera there was so much noise that everything looked fuzzy...even in reasonably goo lighting conditions.

The one(s) with the rabbit

2009-07-16T07:37:00.006+01:00

Today I couldn't decide which picture to post as I like all 3 - and they are basically the same object anyway....just different views of it. The pictures were taken at Yorkshire Sculpture Park....my all time favourite place....just incase I haven't mentioned it a few times already! This place is truly amaaaaazing....really.

The picture above was taken last autumn when all the leaves were covering the ground and adding some lovely colour to the scene. The colour was enhanced further during the HDR process. HDR photography seems to be something people either love or hate. Has anyone tried it?

You can find out more about HDR photography on Wikipedia. Essentially you take 3 photos (a bracketed exposure)...one is normal exposure and the other 2 are over/under exposed. Then you use some special software such as Photomatix Pro to merge the images. There are other ways to do it and get similar results although I don't think the results are as good and I'm not sure you could call it a true HDR image. And I'm not interested in the debate...I know what I like and that's what matters :)

The head - I love the angle of this shot

The feet - if you look closely the detail is amazing!

Feel free to critique....constructive of course lol

Photo a day(ish)

2009-07-15T12:01:00.001+01:00

I’ve tried this before but gave up after 100 days or so for various reasons, but I’ve decided I wanted to try again. I used to post (on a previous blog) photo every day and then I’d kind of critique it and hopefully learn something from it. Sometimes it would be a new photo and sometimes it would be an old one that I found interesting for one reason or another. So without further ado I’ll post todays photo.

This photo was taken on Filey beach (N E coast of England) in January 2009. The weather was terrible – dull and stormy and the photos just looked flat and lifeless in colour. I decided to try the photo in black and white because I thought the clouds and water would look more dramatic. So anyway, ignoring the fact that I never stuck to the rule of thirds, I think the results were fairly promising. Whilst it could still do with some corrections, I kind of like it. I would have liked something more interesting with respect to composition, but it wasn’t really the weather for hanging about!

cough, cough

2009-07-12T09:42:00.002+01:00

*Dusts off blog*
*cough, cough*

Ok I'm sorry I did kind of forget about this blog - although reading through it I am now wondering what I was thinking when I wrote half of this stuff LOL. Anyway, I will try and come up with something new at least twice a week. Do graphics count as photography? Hmmmm maybe I should re-name this blog "Louise's image work" :)

Where does time go?

2009-05-12T23:17:00.003+01:00

Really? I have no idea where time goes! It doesn't seem 2 minutes since I last updated this blog!

Well there hasn't been much time for photography lately with essentially working 2 jobs, but I have been getting some ideas together and I've been keen to try out some tricks that I've seen in various photography magazines.

We just came back from a trip to Lincoln recently and I'll post some of those pics soon. Unfortunately there was restoration work going on at the cathedral and so the pics weren't brilliant.

100 cool photoshop effects

2009-01-24T20:36:00.001Z

Bored with your photos and want some fun things to do with them? Ten check this out: 100 wonderful photo effects.

My new toy

2008-12-26T21:42:00.001Z

I got a graphics tablet for Christmas and I love it ;o)

Saves me drawing with my mouse YAY!

Merry Christmas

2008-12-25T21:41:00.000Z

Christmas day antics in the Franks house LOL

Catch a falling star

2008-12-21T21:39:00.000Z

I was listening to a song earlier and had some inspiration. Unfortunately the photo didn't come out as well as I'd hoped. The lyrics to the song were...

Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket.....never let it fade away....