Alamy update

Celebrating my first sale on Alamy. A whole £50 - so not quite ready to retire and become a stock photographer for the rest of my life. It's also a picture taken at a National Trust property and NT has just ordered Alamy to delete all non-authorised images taken at their properties - so likely to be the first and last money I earn from that image!

Search for B407D9 at www.alamy.co.uk to see my new favourite picture! (and taken with the D70)

Some colour for Kevin

I still prefer it b/w, but then again I'm chromatically challenged, so tend to see b/w and contrast better anyway!

Polarizer definitely would have been good to have to help boost the sky, if you look at the mirror shot (post below), you can see how the sky has been improved by the polarizing effect of the mirror.

Cardiff selection

A few of the more "photographic" attempts from Cardiff - although don't think Kev is in any danger of losing the King of the Architectural Abstract crown. (And is the 100th post?). Once Alice has had a chance for first viewing, rest of the weekend should appear somewhere on Facebook soon.

Museum Kampa - Prague

Ok, so I photographed yet another building. This is Museum Kampka, one of the modern art galleries in Prague; itself having been renovated and extended with 21st century glass work. As you can imagine, I was in my element exploring reflections, shapes, colour. From what I can tell so far, this is my favorite.

I've not done much PP as my little dell is not calibrated and the viewing angle dramatically affects the on screen colour and brightness, so I will do it properly when I get home.

EXIF: 5D2, 24mm, f/11, 1/500s, ISO 200

Challenge #5 - reportage

More weird settings: f9, 1/320s, 45mm, ISO 720

Sleeveface - harder than it looks

From the hard-hitting reportage of the recession, I was mucking about the other day after reading about the SleeveFace phenomenon. Basically, if you haven't heard of it, you get someone to stick a record sleeve in from of their face and take a picture. 

Here's a couple of examples. 

It's not as easy as it looks. 

Challenge #5 - so whose stupid f**king idea was this?

f8, 1/320s, 85mm, 640ISO...WTF? Can only assume it was a hungover morning when I got the train into St Alban's, as I walk past a series of closed shops on the way to the office. Got lots of fairly similar closed/for rent premises which I might subject you to if I can't find anything more original.