Saturday 31 December 2011

Fototastic 2011

Well, it's the last day of the year again so as usual I've done a quick video recap of the year of 2011 on the fototastic blog.

Happy New Year everyone and I hope you all enjoy seeing in the new year with style ;-)





...See you all in 2012

Thursday 29 December 2011

Getting Creative For Christmas

Hope that you all had a fantastic Christmas. I had an excellent one and am lucky enough to have the whole 2 weeks off work so am enjoying the relaxation.

I always think that it's a nice touch to give something personal and creative for Christmas (or birthdays) and although I have gifted a number of framed pictures, photo mosaics, etc over the years sometimes you can't beat a hand drawn picture.

As it was my good friends baby's first Christmas (featured in a previous post), I decided to create a drawing from one of the photos that I took from when she was 2 weeks old.

A few months back, I dug out and dusted off a drawing pad then set to work using fine liners. A long long time ago, back when I was at school, I created a series of portraits using just dots on paper. This is a very time consuming method but I like the way that you can get the required shading just by increasing the consistency of the dots and you can't really go wrong - Well, that's not strictly true but it is easier to cover any mistakes!

Anyway, 2 pens and thousands of dots later, here is the resulting picture....



As usual, click on the image to enlarge and I think this looks better if you view from slightly further away from the screen ;-)

Tuesday 20 December 2011

Christmas 2011

Right folks, it's that time of year again when I post the obligatory photo of the Christmas tree and wonder where the past 12 months have gone!

No where near as large and bushy as last years effort but it was a lot more manageable to put up and cost almost half the price!

Like last year I got bored of the standard shot and started experimenting with movement as you can see in the second shot.





I found some old lights (which only work when they want to), an inexpensive fish bowl vase and some cheap ball balls for this new edition to the Xmas decorations!



Merry Christmas...

Saturday 10 December 2011

Baby's First Christmas

My good friend's baby will be having their first Christmas this year and the grandparents requested a picture of her in festive attire so they could send out some personalised Xmas cards to friends and family.

I volunteered my services and we had some fun last Sunday afternoon rearranging their lounge and setting up some shots then trying to keep the baby amused and looking in (roughly) the right direction!

Here are a few of favourites from the day.







As usual, click on the images to enlarge.

Monday 5 December 2011

Wireless

Wireless is everywhere these days from tv remotes to keyboards and now even wireless energy transfer.

If you were born around the end of the 1970s or start of the 80s then you, like me will remember when a lot of TV's didn't even have remote controls (or not even colour screens in some cases!). How times have changed!