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March Challenge

larosson — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:39:53 +0000

When I’ve finished with the #febphotoaday challenge, I’m going to do the #marchchallenge which is different because it is actually a vlog-a-day challenge, but you can do some days as a photograph instead if you choose to. Here’s the list of tasks if you want to join in!

When I do vlogs, I’ll post them here or here. When I do photographs, I’ll either post them on this site or on Instagram (my username is @fingersmith)

Filed under: Photography, Video

February Photo a Day Challenge #24: Inside Your Bathroom Cabinet

larosson — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:32:54 +0000

This is another one of the totally random shots on the #febphotoaday list. But here it is anyhow:

Yes, yes, yes: as you can see I’m fond of Listerine, St Ive’s Apricot facial scrub and Aveda’s Reconstructing Conditioner (well, you have to have heard of this if you’ve ever encountered peroxide)! By the way, this is another iPhone shot. HDR’d, and then converted to sepia with extra noise added, for a retro feel, and a frame added in iPiccy.

Filed under: Photography, Writing

February Photo a Day Challenge #23: Your Shoes

larosson — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:26:57 +0000

I’ve had my boots since I was eighteen so they are manky as fuck, but they’re too comfy and lovely to say goodbye to!

Filed under: Photography, Writing

Surprise Breakfast

larosson — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:34:06 +0000

Yeah, so work hasn’t been great lately. My hours have been reduced and because of exams what hours I have left are very flexible and easily cancelled. It’s not fun getting up at 7 and dragging your half-dead arse to work only to find that you don’t have to be there for an hour. But I figured, fuck it, I’ve got a coffeehouse and my iPod, I’m grand!

So I spent my morning with coffee, scones and Lana Del Rey:

Filed under: Music, Photography, Writing

February Photo a Day Challenge #22: Where You Work

larosson — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:34:02 +0000

University of Bedfordshire:

Filed under: Photography, Writing

Extras

larosson — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:05:21 +0000

Random shots that I haven’t had a reason to use or post:

Filed under: Art, Books, Photography, Places, Writing

February Photo a Day Challenge #20: Handwriting

larosson — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:58:58 +0000

Filed under: Photography

Old Warden, Bedfordshire

larosson — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:19:58 +0000

Sometimes you forget that the most beautiful places are right on your doorstep. It was ice cold today, but it was sunny so we went for a drive and a walk around this lovely little village and had a coffee at Shuttleworth.

Naturally, I had my camera on me. [Sony NEX-5N with 16mm & 18-55mm lenses. Edited with Photoshop and Pixlr-o-matic. (I may post the pure shots at a later date, because they are lovely without the filters and effects.)]

We also stopped off at Clophill and Cople and here are a few shots:

I’m still fairly in love with these instragrammatic-esque effects – and they certainly make snapshots look lovely – but as I said before I’ll start doing less of these retro style photo sets soon and focus on pure photography for a little while. I’m going to be doing portrait shoots and macro shoots soon, all of which will be free from these retro stylings. However, because I’m such a sucker for these beautiful old, rusty, dirty, shaky, unique and idiosyncratic shots I’ve actually purchased one of these cheap & impossible Holga lenses for digital systems. They create the same kinds of images, but in the camera – including underexposure, vignetting, ghosting and all of the things that you don’t usually want from a lens, but (when used creatively) make for great shots. So look out for plenty of new photo posts soon!

Filed under: Art, Photography, Places, Writing

February Photo a Day Challenge #18: Drink

larosson — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:44:32 +0000

Diet Coke: my eternal addiction.

Filed under: Photography

February Photo a Day Challenge #17: Time

larosson — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:31:48 +0000

I didn’t want to do something really bog standard like taking a shot of a clock and I didn’t really have the ability to do what I wanted to do (a timelapse or slow shutterspeed shot of a clock ticking away) with the equiptment I have, so instead I got a bunch of shots and did creative things to them by making a gif. Here goes:

(Well, I’m not sure about you guys but WordPress appears to be refusing to play my gif so here it is on Tumblr in full working glory.)

Filed under: Art, Books, Photography, Writing