Ok, here’s Saturdays piccie of the day.. i must admit i’m feeling a wee bit tipsy, we just let off fireworks for my mums 50th birthday, have never taken pics of fireworks before.. didn’t have much space, would like to get a longshot of a display one time. But hey, here it is.
Posted on February 24th, 2007 by rich
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And fridays goes something like this..
Just went to the market to pick up some bits for my mums 50th birthday party tomorrow, took my camera and thought i have to take at least one snap while i’m down there. Anyway, this is from my way home 
Posted on February 23rd, 2007 by rich
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Well, i’m cheating a little bit.. i’m posting 2 images today, for yesterday, because now is actually tomorrow, and today was yesterday, for now.. we’ll leave it at that.
Dan & Matt (The Munday brothers) - while we were working on a news reporting scene for our film MTF2
And a second, HDR shot of Wood Street train station.. snore!
Posted on February 23rd, 2007 by rich
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Following on from yesterdays success, here’s Wednesdays..
It was the shadows cast on the wall that i wanted to capture the most here. There was a rather pleasant sun outside, creating the strong shadows.
Posted on February 21st, 2007 by rich
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Nads/Random Variable directed me to this post, where Chris Bertram writes about how carrying a camera around with him for a day and aiming to shoot for a publishable pic in those 24 hours changed his perspective on the world.. Well i took a small but significant leaf from his book, i will try and post one pic i like per day, taken on that day.. most will no doubt be shot indoors, and in my house.. but hey, a pic’s a pic!
Heres tuesdays - of my brother, who is leaving to live in america very soon 
Posted on February 20th, 2007 by rich
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Well, i came up with a rather nice project to work on today, well.. i say rather nice, only in the way that hitler was ‘good’ at being a dictator.
After watching the mini-series of Battlestar Galactica recently, nothing has ever brought the threat of nuclear war/destruction closer to home for me. In the first 40 minutes of the show, the homeplanet called Caprica, is pretty much obliterated, nukes hitting here and there, people dying in their millions, nations wiped out etc.. etc..
This did actually depress me for a while, i only realised as i sat down to eat dinner later that day that it was the BSG mini-series that had gotten me blue.
I’ll say it again, never before has something hit home quite so well than the mini-series, and so.. i intend to relay my fears into photographic form, this is gonna be quite a task.. i’m going to give it a couple of weeks.
I wanna nuke london! (i am aware this is now going to be monitored closely by some uber-l337 haXx0r spy)
Seriously, i intend to produce a series of photos depicting London post-nukage.. Only in the hope that it will convey the same message to others as BSG did to me..
I’m not sounding like a paranoid 60’s throwback am i? Hope not, i’m using London as a subject because i live here, and i rather like it.
Posted on February 19th, 2007 by rich
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I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate.
All these moments will be lost in time
like tears in rain..
- Blade Runner
Posted on February 17th, 2007 by rich
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W2J & Music;
Don’t you just hate it when you start something which seems kinda cool, and then you leave it for ages.. in some misc. folder, or ‘New Folder’, and then stays there for a long time collecting computer dust.. well here’s a fine example, ok.. it might not look a masterpiece, but i was quite pleased with it. I intended it to look like some old atari-esque game, on the left of the road is some dude under a cloud, with a bag?.. and on the right hand side of the road was (well, i should say “is going to be”) Welcome 2 John, possibly the greatest band known to man. I’d love to know why i started to draw this, in MSPaint no less! I should carry it on, finish it up and present it back on here..
In the meantime, here’s the image in question, and a photo i took last night of my friend playing drums.. he’s so hardcore he cracks his cymbals.
NP: Michael Jackson - Bad (yes, I’m jigging to it)
Posted on February 16th, 2007 by rich
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Ok, after sometime of messing around in photoshop at work, i’ve worked on making this tutorial for creating a nice starfield/planet scene.
1) Firstly let’s create the canvas (with black background);
2) And add some noise: Filter/Noise/Add Noise
3) Next, alter the brightness/contrast: Image/Adjustments/Brightness&Contrast
4) This next step is up to you, but i prefer having the ‘paint daub’ effect, makes the stars look a little more sparse
5) Create a circular marquee on a new layer, any size is fine - then fill it with clouds (Make sure you have Black and White colours (shortcut D)) then fill, Filters/Render/Clouds, this should fill it with a planet-esque texture, but it’s looking a bit too flat.. so go to Filters/Distort/Spherize (push it to 100% and hit ok!)
6) Now we want to colour it, i chose a light blue.. just to give it that cool, water-based planet… or something? i dunno, it looked cool. Make sure to desaturate it a fair bit, you can follow the values i’ve set if you want (Hue=209, Saturation=16, Lightness=0) go to Image/Adjustments/Hue&Saturation.
7) Add some eerie glow to the globe. Go to the bottom of the layers window, and on the left hand side there is a small button that looks like an italic f in a black circle, click that.. then click outer glow (by the way, you must have the planet layer selected) use the settings i’ve used, or your own after all we live in a freedom-of-choice world!
Blend Mode: Normal
Opacity: 55%
Noise: 0%
Colour: White
Spread: 0%
Size 24% (this will depend on the size of your planet)
Now create a layer from the ‘Outer Glow’ layer so we can edit the glow and the planet seperately. Do this by right clicking the effects layer and selecting ‘Create Layer’
9) Now select your burn tool (Shortcut O) and proceed to ‘burn’ one side/edge of the planet (make sure your planet layer is selected) I had the tool settings on ‘Highlights’ and ‘100% opacity’
10) Choose the ‘Outer glow’ layer (will probably be called ‘Layer 1’s Outer Glow’) and burn away the same area you did with the planet.. so it should look like it’s being erased.
11) To finish off, I swapped the burn tool for my the dodge tool, and ‘lit up’ the other side of the planet..
Hope this was ok to follow, it’s my first tutorial, and questions please feel free to ask!
Posted on February 15th, 2007 by rich
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Just a few snaps from the ‘Art Not Oil’ evening at the 491 gallery in Leytonstone.
Posted on February 14th, 2007 by rich
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