Photo every day of the year - Jan 30th - The Red Planet

The Red Planet © Mark Pelleymounter

Photo every day of the year - Jan 29th - Electric Blue Planet

Electric Blue Planet © Mark Pelleymounter

Photo every day of the year - Jan 28th - Boscombe Light Orb

After internet issues had home, I am having to post Friday's, Saturday's and Sunday's pictures today.

Firstly Friday's effort.   Light Orb on the beach at Boscombe Pier.

Boscombe Light Orb © Mark Pelleymounter

Photo every day of the year - Jan 27th - Out of the Window

Out of the Window © Mark Pelleymounter

Just a quick experiment today.

This is a downsized image of 11 photographs combined into a panorama in photoshop.

Photo every day of the year - Jan 26th - In the Rear View Mirror

In the Rear View Mirror © Mark Pelleymounter

Photo every day of the year - Jan 25th - Boscombe Pier

Boscombe Pier © Mark Pelleymounter

A shot I have had in mind for some time.

This is the underside of Boscombe Pier taken at night on a 30 second exposure at iso 800 f4.

I had to push the exposure slightly in photoshop to bring back some details in the underside, but this was relatively easy as I had made sure to take the shot in RAW mode for later conversion.

Converted to Black and White in photoshop and then a slight dodge and burn after noise reduction using Neat Image plugin'

Photo every day of the year - Jan 24th - Gucci

Gucci © Mark Pelleymounter

A little late taking an posting tonight.  My original idea did not work out so had to quickly come up with a substitute.

The bottle is lit over 4 seconds by a single flashlight at different directions.

Slight crop and some burning in photoshop.

Photo every day of the year - Jan 23rd - Mx-5 Trace

Mx-5 Trace © Mark Pelleymounter

Photo every day of the year - Jan 22nd - Black and White Refraction

Black and White Refraction © Mark Pelleymounter

Today is a busy day with an evening taken up with a party, so had to quickly come up with an idea today.

This is, I think, going to be a shot that I will revisit in the future as I believe it will benefit from a darker room so that there is less reflections showing in the glass.

Simply two pieces of card behind the glass.

Photo every day of the year - Jan 21st - Unysis Traffic

Unysis Traffic © Mark Pelleymounter

Tonight, I wanted to combine this great building with elements of movement, so went for four seperate exposure for the traffic light trails.

Photo every day of the year - Jan 20th - Earth Light

Earth Light © Mark Pelleymounter

Combining two elements from recent photographs, I used the same glass globe and took a long exposure shot in a dark room and circled it with an LED torch to create light trails.

Photo every day of the year - Jan 19th - Traffic

Traffic © Mark Pelleymounter

Today, I chose the same location as yesterday's "Toy Town" image, but this time in the evening to get some traffic trails.

Photo every day of the year - Jan 18th - Toy Town

Continuing with trying out new things and techniques, I have today taken a rather mundane shot of a round about with the thought to make into a fake "tilt/shift" lens image to make it all look like a toy model set.

Toy Town © Mark Pelleymounter

This was done as follows:

Photo every day of the year - Jan 17th - Water Sparkles

Returning to a photo I first did several years ago, I thought I would re-try it today.

Water Sparkles © Mark Pelleymounter

The photo is of water coming out of a tap at full flow and was taken with flash at 1/64th power and at 1/250th second.

Photo every day of the year - Jan 16th - Light Painting part 2

Light Rainbow © Mark Pelleymounter

Following on from yesterdays first efforts at light painting with a torch, today I decided on less geometric images with random movements of the torch.

Photo every day of the year - Jan 15th - Light Painting

Light Orb © Mark Pelleymounter

Light Orb Colours © Mark Pelleymounter

Two images today, inspied by the amazing work of Michael Bosanko.

In these, I made the kitchen as dark as I possibly could, set the camera to 100 ISO, and manual 30 second exposure at f22.

I then used an led torch or a piece of string and set it swinging.

The top image is completely unprocessed.  The colours were from two grad filters (one nuetral and one tobacco that I placed in front of the lens.

The bottom image had three layers with colour balance adjustments made and masked in photoshop.

Hope you like.

Photo every day of the year - Jan 14th -Red Splash

Red Water Droplet Splash - © Mark Pelleymounter

With the weather still poor outside, I am being pretty much restriced to indoor photo work so far this year.  I cannot wait for the weather to warm up to get out and about and explore the world around us.

I also think I need to do a bit more than simply posting a photograph taken on teh day and perhaps give a little bit more insight into how it was taken.

Photo every day of the year - Jan 13th - Ring Heart

An image which will be familiar to many from their wedding albums, but I have never tried this shot before.

Ring Heart © Mark Pelleymounter

Photo every day of the year - Jan 12th - Glass Globe

Glass Globe

Photo every day of the year - Jan 12th - Glass Globe

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Photo every day of the year - Jan 11th - Black or White Bracelet?

Black or White Bracelet?

Photo every day during 2011

Today, I bring you costume jewellery with a shallow DOF

Photo every day of the year - Jan 10th - Coffee, Black or White?

Photo every day of the year - Jan 10th - Coffee, Black or White?

Coffee, do you prefer yours black of white?


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Photo every day of the year - Jan 9th - Moon Sliver

Moon Sliver

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Photo every day of the year - Jan 8th - Motion

Day 8 of my challenge to take and post a photo every day during 2011.

Motion

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Photo every day of the year - Jan 7th - Circles

Day 7 - only 358 to go!

Circles

Hopefully the weather will pick up soon so I can do some outdoors work instead of all thie inside stuff so far.

Photo every day of the year - Jan 6th - Stairway

Continuing my venture to take and post at least one photo every day.

Here is "Stairway".

Photo every day of the year - Jan 5th - Lone Rose

Continuing my quest to take and post at least one photography every day this here, here is today's photo.

Taken with flashgun set on manual power at 1/16th and bounced of the ceiling to give a low key effect.

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Photo every day of the year - Jan 4th - Urban Lines

Image for 4th January.

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Photo every day of the year - Jan 3rd

Today's image. Taken with flash and long exposure inside my car.

Need to look at re-working this as one of the tripod legs is in the frame.

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Photo every day of the year - Jan 2nd

Both of these were taken with a single hotshoe flash with the camera and object in the bath!!

With the flash bounced off the sides of the bath it gives an even light and the bath surface allows reflections below the object. This gives an advert style appearance and mimikes a pro light box.

Photo a day for 2011

This year, I have decided to challenge myself to make at least one photo each and every day during 2011.

The reason for this is to push myself to try new ideas and different techniques throughout the year and share them with you.

Hopefully, during the course of the year I will have learnt a great deal and improved along the way.

Here is one from Jan 1st - well, to be honest, shortly after midnight with family members swirling sparklers.

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This was taken with the camera on tripod and a shutter speed of 15 seconds. ISO 200 lens at 18mm and f3.5.