Star Wars X-Wing Starfighter over Altrincham bus station
I’m going out a day early this week because the thought of the small matter of the football game tonight between Manchester United and Manchester City which could potentially decided the 2011/2012 premiership title has prevented me from focusing on anything particularly productive at all, and I can’t guarantee being fit for anything tomorrow. So [...]
My favourites from 2011
It’s that time again…. In keeping with the last couple of year’s reflections on the year that was (2010 here, and 2009 here) below are my 12 14 favourite images from 2011. Slightly different from these previous entries though, I haven’t picked one image from each month, I’ve simply tried to pick my 12 (which [...]
Misty trees by the river Bollin
To buy a print of this image, click here. One from the archives for you today. Taken around spring last year down by one of my photographic “muses” – the river Bollin in deepest Cheshire. Shot using a Lensbaby Composer to give the selective focus before I had a tilt/shift, sorry perspective control lens, this [...]
Just how much fun can you have on one evening
Just a quick post today – the portfolio and blog site improvements / changes continue and have taken up far too much of my time already! The week before last I was invited by an old friend to join a group of his buddies go-karting at the 3 sisters track in Wigan. Being a bloke [...]
Manchester, May 2008 – Champions League Final Celebrations
In light of the small matter of the forthcoming Champions League Final at Wembley tomorrow between Manchester United and Barcelona, I felt I needed a little flashback.
Manchester… devoid of life
So this has been a hectic week, what with the bank holiday, trying to re-shuffle a terabytes worth of data around to improve my workflow and just general crap – thus the missed post on Tuesday. Apologies. However, now that I have additional storage hooked up and ChronoSync schedules amended, things are now cookin’ [...]
Autumn themed portrait shoot
Earlier in the year I did this shoot with Natalie, an up and coming local make-up artist. I like the images on their own, but felt that there was a series in here somewhere. So Natalie & I agreed to hook up again with another model and do an “Autumn” themed shoot to go [...]
Bollin Valley model shoot
I’m getting more into environmental portrait shooting again lately, and loving every minute of it. After going to Leeds the other week for a workshop with the legendary David Hobby (@strobist), I decided to order myself an Orbis ring flash to play with using this primarily as an on axis fill. I left the workshop [...]
“A week in the life”
I’ve been working on a project lately to capture a series of time-lapse images to capture a journey in the car. I decided some time ago that I wanted a wide-angle view out of the windscreen, but also capturing some of the side windows to capture passing traffic. After many test shots, I plumped with [...]
Peak District – Part 2
I’ve finally got round to processing the remainder of the HDR images I planned & shot last weekend (read more on my encounter with the irate bulls here). Here are 2 of the best.
Trip to the hills.
On Friday night I decided to do a little more work on one of the projects I’m working on. The local council has deemed fit that our local village square should be torn down and an oversized supermarket and an excessive number of flats and underground parking should be created. The residents have been in [...]
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January 2009. Week 2
This was taken on the corner of Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester using an ND400 filter. This allowed me to reduce the exposure by just over 8 stops to around 15 seconds. Long enough to blur all the wandering shoppers and leave the lone busker and his acquaintance in the frame. This next image is possibly [...]
Accrington
Finally managed to get some processing done at last. Thought I’d plough through a couple of dusk and dawn shoots I did in Accrington last month. Shot with D300 and used Nik’s fantastic Silver Efex Pro.
Still life project
Still no further work of my own to post on here yet I’m afraid. Although I have put some time into formulating ideas for my next project. I’ve decided that it’s going to be along a “Still Life” theme – I’ve never really done any “proper” still life before, one of the reasons being is [...]
The weekend is here…. again.
Crikey, what a week! What with the wedding last weekend, my trip to London this week, and the family holiday which starts tomorrow, its all been a bit manic! The trip to London revolved around a visit to the Tate Modern to see the "Street & Studio" Exhibition. The trip was worth it for [...]
Service Stations Project
Some more shots of the latest project. Some are a bit out of keeping with the rest of the project, but I felt they were worth posting nonetheless.
Gallery update
Just a quick note today to let you know that I have updated my Projects Gallery. It now contains the Big Issue project I completed in December and some of the Service Stations series I’m currently working on, as well as the “15 minutes” series. Check it out here: www.fillfactorphotography.com/Projects/tabid/273/Default.aspx
M6 Service Stations continued…
Aaagh! Middle lane drivers! Why do these cretins insist on sitting one behind another in the middle lane with no traffic whatsoever in the inside lane? Is it because they’re such nervous drivers that they can’t face having to pull out of the inside lane to overtake the odd truck? In which case they shouldn’t [...]
Manchester at dawn
I set off just before dawn on Monday morning to head up the M6 to try and make some more photographs for the Service Stations project, but as I was heading up the M56, the sky suddenly began to turn a deep red. So I figured I’d swing by Manchester on my way. I shot [...]
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"15 Minutes" project
Well I’ve finally finished the football supporters projected I started last year, and its now gone off to the printers. I’m expecting a nice 30cm square linen backed 48 page book on my return from family hols next week. Its taken longer than anticipated but I’m happy with the final image selection. I’ve opted to [...]
