17.11.17

De Montfort University vs Bishop Grosseteste University

DMU 2-0 BGU

One of my keen passions is sports. I love football and I love Photography, so I thought to combine the both and start building myself a portfolio and try to photograph some professional football matches next academic year. In the meantime, I decided to contact the my university's football team and to go to some of their games, home and away, and photograph their matches. So far I have been to one game and it went pretty well. I had taken two cameras with different lenses. I had my favourite, Canon 5D and my trusty 700D and also took a flash gun with me for better lighting. The key to sports photos are to have a fast shutter speed and a fairly high ISO of 400. Always use shutter priority or aperture priority when photographing fast moving subjects, this will help you get better and clean results instead of blurry shots. 

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09.09.17

Crystal Ball Photography!

These are the photographs that you see in the video! I love all of the photos, it did take a while to capture some of the shots as I wanted it perfectly focused but eventually I achieved the shots I wanted and had a good outcome to this project. I had a lot of fun photographing something different to my usual style of photography, it started off as an experiment and now I can see me developing this project further on, using different locations around Leicester and in the photography studio too!

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08.09.17

Crystal Ball Photography... Video!!

So this is something I have been meaning to do for a while. Recently I purchased a crystal ball from eBay. I have seen some amazing photos by using a crystal ball and thought 'It looks amazing and it's something I haven't done before so let's try it!' I have experimented with it to get the hang of it but didn't post any of those photos on my photography blog because I wanted this project to be what you guys see first! 

I went to Abbey Park in Leicester, with the ball and my trusty Canon 700D. I was just going to take normal photographs but I decided to make a video with photos as well... I wanted to use the skills I've learnt from my first year at Uni and make a project around it. 

It went great! I had such an amazing time producing the piece of work. I would love to develop the piece of work further and travel around Leicester with the crystal ball and my camera and make more YouTube Videos!

RM

01.08.17

A Day in The Life

I ran out of ideas on what to photograph, so I searched Google for some project ideas and came across ' A Day in The Life' which I thought sounded interesting so I gave it a go. I decided to photograph a day which didn't include me just sitting at home all day, so I chose Saturday. I photographed things that I did that would be interesting to see and not just the usual activities such as watching tv. 

Saturday Morning: 10am

Pure Gym

Photographing myself at gym was definitely not easy to do. I'm self conscious about the way I look and everyone at gym looks at you when you take photos, so I found it hard but I overcame it and took these four photos which is what I did  at gym. I asked my friend to photograph me after I set up the camera for him. 

Saturday Afternoon: 12pm

Late Breakfast After Gym

Due to me going gym, I recently have started to diet.I decided to photograph what I ate for breakfast because I had something different. Having one slice of 50/50 toast and a Banana with a cup of green tea (Green tea isn't the most delicious thing!) 

Saturday Afternoon: 2pm

Youtube

After gym and eating breakfast, I find myself the best way to relax is just watching Youtube Videos. I definitely prefer it over TV due to the amount of content on the website. I watch a lot of gaming videos, podcasts, music videos etc. 

Saturday Evening 7pm

Dinner

For dinner, my oldest brother decided we should go to Asda and cook chicken and boil some vegetables. I have never tried Cauliflower, Broccoli, Kale or String Beans before. I photographed my brother cooking the food to try develop my food photography skills further, plus it's still photographing what happens on that day. I definitely didn't like the vegetables but did enjoy it as a healthy meal. My brother and I have decided to cook together more often and maybe I will photograph it and share it.

So that was my Saturday. I did enjoy the project, it was different and fun. I have wanted to do this project for a while but I had nothing going on in my life that was remotely interesting to capture so I had to stall it until now. I'm glad I captured the moments throughout the day, and was able to share the photographs and the outcomes. 

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03.07.17

Recently, I have joined up for the gym and ended up getting myself a new photography project. I have a personal trainer who is an old friend of mine since primary school and he wanted some pictures taken for him and his new business in which he wants to become a personal trainer. I thought why not help him and help myself at the same time. 

The reason why I have edited the photos like this are due to his other posts. He only uploads in black and white and he wanted me to edit the pictures leaving the weights in colour. This is 'Pop Art'. There aren't many pictures yet, but I'd like to develop these pictures into a further project and see how his body develops in the future.

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