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The photo above is a photo I had taken at the start of the week. the yellow (cheese) glow is from the flash firing from inside my room as well as substandard lighting from inside the room. because I also took this through a window the focus isn’t quite right. Stats for this shot are…

Shutter speed: 1/60
Aperture: 5.6
iso: 400

The image is also heavily cropped as even with a focal length of 300mm it is way too far away. I wasn’t going to take this venture any further as I didn’t think I would be able to handhold a shot in the dark at this focal length, although Supermoon just got me out to try.

This was very much a trial and error experiment for me. Because of the darkness I automatically think that your going to need a longer exposure to compensate, although from what I found it is the complete opposite.

So hopefully this diagram is simple enough. showing a few experiments to how I got to my final shot/s. I started off by shooting normally as I would do at 400 ISO expecting to need a long exposure to capture the detail. I kept playing around trying to get this right until I realised that I was practically shooting into the sun (moon reflecting the sun and all that) which then led me to put my ISO down to 200 to compensate for the brightness of the light playing around with a few shutter speeds I decided 1/200 was working pretty well it was giving me the detail on the moons surface that I needed but it was still a bit too bright. Taking my ISO down another notch to 100 bought alot more detail into the moon and crisped up the image alot as well, although I wasn’t happy with the yellow glow still. Bumping the shutter speed to a longer exposure seemed to get rid of the yellow but then I was still losing some of the detail in the surface.

After some thinking it came to me that the area around me was too light polluted (street lamps spot lights etc) walking further down into Winchester to a secluded spot was where my final experiments really got interesting. The white and grey of the moon was really coming out in the shots but also were very crisp and detailed.

These two shots show my final experiments with the shutter speed. Same ISO of 100 and aperture of 5.6, eventually I settled upon 1/500 as it gave me good punchy whites but still giving a good general tonal depth in regards to the craters and spots. My final shot is below. Cropped in at 100% it has lost some of its clarity due to a multitude of things but overall I think its come out really well and it didn’t require any photoshopping at all besides the crop.

12 of 12 is a creation of Chad Darnell so check out his site for the entire 12 of 12 archive.

Because I took these photos on my lunch break over a period of 40 minutes this months 12 of 12 is very flower centric.

Romsey Abbey here. Not a wedding this saturday. was going to go inside but didn’t have much time.

Been experimenting with a few of these globe panoramic’s recently. This didn’t work out as well as some others but then again didn’t have a wide angle lens and I rushed it out.

Back to the flowers. Found this blossom shame it wasn’t sunny anymore though.

More flowers (warned you) went for a walk round the war memorial park although not much has bloomed yet.

quickly while the sun shone through I snapped up some photos, thought this was pretty representative of the end of winter and spring starting.

this cheeky little duck was running around everywhere.

Swans always give me the creeps. Think its the necks.

Near the end of my lunch walking back to work. No idea what makes trees go like this.

Pretty typical of the English weather really. Sun came back out with only 15 mins of my lunch break left.

Sun was shining through the trees back near the Abbey on the way back decided it needed blacking out when I was editing.

The text on this sign is really cool. could see this working on a uni project in the future.

12 of 12 for March over. Back in April.

here are a few examples of photos that have actually managed to come out!

I woke up really late today. Woops! this is about 2:30 in the afternoon and the sun is piercing the windows of my house.

bit of late editing on a project im working on at uni.

coming home to find my delivery of 120mm ilford film had come. Can’t wait to start taking photos with my new holga.

Dinner for tonight amazing gammon roast courtesy of my mum.

sitting waiting for my train back to Winchester at Southampton Central. pretty horrid station to be honest.

eventually my train arrived and just so everyone know’s I hate cross country trains with a passion!

took a major detour from my normal route back to halls to take a photo of the cathedral very moody looking at night.

nice bit of bokeh of the xmas lights near the cathedral.

some more bokeh this didn’t work so well but it still looks pretty.

this worked a bit better than the one before of the entire high street.

think I might have gone a bit bokeh crazy tonight but I have never really had a chance to experiment with it. This is an entire net of lights in the highstreet.

finally time to change the wallpaper on my desktop to a Winter themed one!

another 12 of 12 completed. New years resolution is most defiantly to be on the ball with taking my photos. check out chad darnell’s site for more 12 of 12 entries this month.

Here is a brief look at some work from the last two projects:

Project 1 involved the creation of a low cost zine based around Winchester. With the final outcome produced on the photocopier. Studying the forms of buildings and landscapes of Winchester and flipping themselves onto each other to create a visually interesting and thoughtful piece of work.

Project 2 involved the creation of a pinhole camera from an object our choosing. I chose to create mine from a story book in a charity shop. all of these photos apart from the 2nd are 8 second exposures in the day with the 2nd photo being an hour and a half at nightime.

Beyond work my time at AUCB came to an end a couple of months back and I start at my new university: Winchester School of Art in just under a month and I’m quite apprehensive to say the least. Will my hallmates like me. Will my classmates like me. Will I be a total failure. There’s a lot to go wrong with moving out and taking on the world by myself. Although at the same time its very exciting to go out and make a name for myself. I’m hoping to exhibit some work on the blog as early as October or November whilst I build up my portfolio to release to the world properly (I’m picky with the design of it). I think I’ve gone on for long enough at 6 in the morning so I will leave you with some generic uni photos of what my room in halls is like. I will post some photos when I have all of my kit set up and when I actually move in.

• First up. University is over! I have finished my course and start at another Winchester School Of Art in October (hopefully) my art show starts in a week and I cant wait to go round on the private showing to see what people are thinking and saying about my pieces.

• Second up I have eventually started updating my Portfolio with work now that I have all this time off, check it out if you have the time, it only has two pieces of work at the moment, but its being updated daily.

• Finally I am appealing for work! I need illustration, and graphic design work over the summer. If you have a firm or you just need the odd job working on email me and I will see if we can work something out!

Some Photo’s from my art show to close this post off…

these are the fronts for 3 tea boxes I have produced.

Also an A2 poster produced for display in my fda show.

I shall update soon with photo’s from my fda show later in the month.