Vitamin Shot

With the weather getting colder and Swine Flu still hanging around, it might be time for a vitamin shot!

Website Photoshoot

Some friends of mine are starting up a website and asked if I could take a few pictures for the site so I spent an enjoyable evening on Monday taking a variety of shots for them.

As you'll notice from my blog, I don't take a great amount of people shots so it was really good practice for me, especially with a wedding shoot coming up next year. There were a fair few shots that went straight to the recycle bin (the beauty of digital!) but we did end up with some good results and they were both pleased so all is good.

Here is one of the shots taken during the evening. I will post more after their site goes live.

Stop Motion Miniatures

Following on from my Life in Miniature post, I stumbled across this stop motion video which I thought was really good.

Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Up Up and Away

Caught a few shots of this passing hot air balloon passing over my house.

I bet they got some good pictures from up there!

Reading Companion

Since we have been getting a bit of September sun recently, I have been making the most of my back garden. Generally just been there chilling out in the sun and reading a good book or the paper and it seems like one of the local cats has taken a shine to my garden as well.

He quite happily basks in the sun or rolls around on the decking and seems to appear whenever I am out there for more than a few minutes and makes himself at home.

As you can see, he is not camera shy either!

Life in Miniature

Tilt-Shift miniature faking is a process in which a life-size pictures are manipulated (using an image editor) to give the impression of a scale model.

I have seen a number of really good ones online and thought I'd give it a quick try. Click on the images to enlarge as they look better in that size.





They are not fantastic but for 5mins effort who am I to complain! I think that finding the right photograph is the hardest part of this process.

To see more of these images, why not visit the Tilt-Shift Miniature Fakes group on Flickr

Zoom Zoom Zoom

Having another quick comparison between Flickr and Zooomr for photo views & stats. An earlier post on this subject can be found here.

The photo below was posted to both Flickr and Zooomr on 10 September 2008. So after one year, how do the stats compare.

Flickr Stats
Views: 153
Favorite: 5

Zooomr Stats
Views: 1275
Favorite: 29

As you can see, Zooomr still generates more interest in my photography and this picture is currently listed as my most awesome shot on Zooomr.