Overboard

Here is a new video Ive been working on, it started as a little experiment.. ie 30 seconds but I decided to finish it. It is completely filmed on an iPhone 4 and edited with Final Cut Express. It is me in it, it was I that filmed it and myself that edited it. Song is by James Vincent McMorrow and its been filmed around my house.

Love at First Sight!

Ive gone and treated myself to a new toy, Ive been drooling over this for ages now and especially over the last couple of months. Its a Nikon D90 and its b-e-a-utiful! Ive had the Nikon D40 for 4 years now, Its a reconditioned one, I got it off ebay for £190 with a 20% discount code and it has been unbelievable.... which is why my heart cannot get rid of her. Its been emotional. I'm keeping the D40 for the time being, I figured it could be my holiday / back-up camera. The D40 is great beginner camera and Id recommend it to anybody wanting to take Photography to a more serious level. Its light and capable of great things. Going with my motto "you've got to spend money to earn money" I decided to jump in and purchase the D90 on the spot.

The biggest box ever!


The D90 however is a step up, its in a different league. 12.9 megapixel, 4.5 frames per second and 11 different focus points... plus much more. It also has HD Movie Mode which is fantastic for me at Uni at the moment.

The beast!




The D90 with 18-105mm lens against The D40 with 50mm 1.4 lens.

Rockstar...

I saw an image similar to this the other day and it inspired me so much I decided to open up photoshop and add my own twist.

Think outside the box...

I thought I'd write a blog to help inspire this depressing time, none of us asked to be born into this crappy society but here we are. In 12 months I've earnt £50 from Blogging on the internet, I have 1 advert on my blog and a couple Amazon products. I set up a Westlife blog about 12 months ago... laugh all you want, but I receive around 150 page views a day and have had 33,000 page views in total. I recently became a OnePiece Brand Ambassador (a week ago) and have earnt £15 in commission already. The point to this blog is, Im barely doing anything. I post a few news stories about Westlife a month and watch the google ad clicks come in. Is it that easy? Imagine what you could make if you put some effort in and had 10 blogs with 3 adverts on each blog? You'd be laughing.
All you need is a GoogleAds Account which is free and something to Blog about, you get paid for every click you receive. (dont click yourself, they'll find out). Below are some screen shots of my earnings...



I hope this small post inspires a few of you who are shafted at the job center or are in University without a job or whatever your situation may be. Its costing me £50 a week in petrol at the minute, my car is a 1.4 that averages around 45MPG.... I travel about 60miles a day... I have a part time job and yet I cant keep my head above water with money, all I seem to spend my money on is petrol. So if you see a google ad at the side of my page, I beg you give it a little click so I can make 20p off it. Thanks!

You can view my Westlife Blog Here.

Rose...

Its that time of month again where Im bursting at the seams with creativity so I asked my lovely sister in law (almost) if she'd like some pictures doing and help me out with some of my ideas, Rose is so lovely and absolutely stunning. These were shot in Newborough Forest, I had a beachy look in my head because Rose is very surfy and natural. We stopped off in Aberffraw to start with where we found a great old looking boat just sitting in its lonely shadow, props are great for making your photos a little more interesting. We couldn't have asked for better weather it was beautiful. When we got to Newbourough it was clouded over slightly in the forest which made the lighting perfect!! We had a great day and such a good laugh (as always) trecking around trying to find the perfect little spots in the forest, and Rose said it wasnt as awkward as she thought it would be.

















Amazing view...

iPhone 4 Movie

I decided to test out the iPhone4 Video Camera properly by making a little montage of some objects in my room. Its such an impressive camera, I hated the iPhone2G camera but this new one puts a smile on my face every time... anyway just a bit of fun below.



Also If you do have an iPhone there's a great Photo App called 'Instagram'. It changes your photos with different filters and makes them into Polaroids (sort of). There is also a great free Polaroid Programme (for your computer) from Polaroid themselves HERE. It turns your digital pictures into Polaroids and the resolution is also high enough to get some good prints out of them. Have fun!

Editors Choice...

So my basketball picture (in my previous blog post) has been getting good feedback on some Photography Magazine Websites. I logged onto PhotoAnswers the other day and it had made it into the Editors Choice Catagory. He wrote a great comment about it saying "This is a fairly simple image to take, but it's yet another image that shows a little effort and some visualisation really means your results can be greater than the sum of their parts". Exciting! Lets hope it makes their 'Practical Photography' Magazine.