Black and White

I had a very productive week in printing photos at the night course. I got four prints done. It may not seem like much but it took over two hours to get the prints right.
These shots are going towards a small project about decay and old objects. How time effects things when they're not being used.
The last print is not really related but I wanted to print one with the snow.

Thanksgiving

Seeing as it is Thanksgiving in America today I thought it would be appropriate to put up my photos of my experience of Thanksgiving in Germany two years ago. While studying in Darmstadt a lot of international erasmus students were staying in the student apartments in Karlshof. Seeing as there was three Americans staying there too they decided to have thanksgiving. Everyone of the international students brought some dish to the party, preferably something native to their country. Frank the American was the driving force behind the whole thing. Given that Thanksgiving isn't a festival celebrated in Germany, no turkey could be found. A goose was the only thing he could find but as he (and his Spanish helper) had never cooked goose before, it kinda collapsed and ended in a mess. But fun was had never the less and I'm sure for Frank and the other Americans it was a Thanksgiving that they will always remember. 

Frank, The man of the night.

Alex

Borja

Cathriona & Sarah

Keeping warm 

Gauthier

The ladies love Mathias

Sarah

What a feast

Fail Goose

Tilt Shift

Tilt Shift Photography is method of photography used for selective focus of an image and is often used for miniature faking, ie an photo of a life-size location  manipulated to give the illusion of a miniature scale model. Special tilt shift lenses can be used to take the photos or the image can be manipulated in photoshop. The latter is what I used for these photos. I found an action for photoshop that I used on my original photographs to create these images. The main features of miniature faking are shallow depth of field, and high saturation of the colours the mimic the bright paint used on models. Here is a selection of my photos that I edited. The change of perspective is really interesting and can really give life to photo.

 Berlin

 Berlin

 Marburg

 Oberwaldhaus, Darmstadt

Ring Strand, East Cork

More Black and White Prints

I didn't get a chance to scan the photos I developed last week so here is this and last weeks prints.

The last one is out of focus but that was the cameras focus not the printing being out of focus. The black and white really reinforces the dilapidation and oldness of the subjects which I like.

Black and White Prints

I started doing a night course in photography where we develop our own black and white film. We were doing prints form our first roll of film today and was really interesting. There's a lot of trial and error and testing before you develop your final photograph. I printed two pictures tonight.

The photos were taken with my Fed 5B camera (an old russian camera). They were taken around my Grandads house which is very old and falling apart. There are lots of interesting decaying machinery, doors and roofs around the house. Hopefully I'll get to print off a few more shots from the negatives next week.

Wedding Portraits

These are some of the portraits of family the day of the wedding and the day after. There were kite surfers on the beach the next day. Never seen anything like it so it was really fascinating.

Unofficial Wedding Photographer

My cousin got married at the on October 1st and she asked me to be the Unofficial Photographer. I was taking the candid and less posed natural shots. It was great fun. The wedding took place at the beautiful Inchydoney Hotel right on the raw and refreshing atlantic ocean. Fantastic location and a surfers haven.
Also I took a few shots with my Lomo LC-A but none of the shots came out; the battery was gone without me knowing....

Knockadoon Castle

For another of the Lomo LC-A race I took pictures of Knockadoon Castle that's near my parents house in east Cork. They were taken in the evening time and the light was really nice. In the last photo my uncle was fishing off the rocks with his dog looking on eagerly for a stray fish.

Lomo LC-A Race Black & White shots

These are some shots I took during the LC-A race. They were taken at Glenawilling beach located outside Ballymacoda in east Cork, Ireland. I had a few different films but these are my Black & White shots. I think it was Agfa APX 400