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Showing posts with label photowalk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photowalk. Show all posts

Monday, July 27, 2009

Scott Kelby 2009 Photowalk

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Hey Guys! Thanks to all who voted on my images in the SK Photo walk to help me choose which to submit! Its very much appreciated! For those who are Interested the Images I posted up are the following two.

Now for a little information on the photowalk. As many of you know Scott Kelby (The Photoshop Messiah), began organising this yearly worldwide event last year to which I was not able to take part in due to the lack of time and resources available to me at the time (Travelling is not particularly a great time to organise oneself for a photowalk like this). However this year with the prior knowledge that I would be in the Philippines I already began looking ahead of time at which groups I could sign up with. However I did this a little late and was limited to which groups I could join with. I ended up joining one which was touring one of the many Manila Malls, Greenbelt. To be honest I was initially dissapointed that this was the only group I could attend, however it turned out to be more of a promising photo-walk than I had Imagined. I'd visited the mall but never as a photographer, and running around with a camera shots just kept jumping out at me. Had it not been for jet lag tiredness and the dropping light and my lack of an easy to use flash system and tripod I could have spent another few hours roaming and shooting. The rain made it especially interesting as for the longest time i've been wanting to shoot post rain Images of subjects with droplets and puddles and whatnot, but strangely enough I didnt get that many oportunities whilst in London (fancy that) although that may have been due to the lack of grenery which is what photographs exceptionally well after or during rain.


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Hola Gente! Gracias a todos vosotros los que votasteis mis mejores imagenes para el SK PhotoWalk. Para aquellos que esteis interesados en saber cuales son las imagenes que elegí para el concurso, son las siguientes dos:

Ahora, un poco de información sobre el PhotoWalk: como muchos de vosotros sabreis, Scott Kelby (el mesias del Photoshop), empezó organizando este evento mundial el año pasado al que no pude asistir debido a la falta de tiempo y recursos en ese momento (al estar viajando, no era el mejor momento para organizar un PhotoWalk de este tipo). De todas formas, este año, sabiendo que iba a estar en Filipinas ya empecé a ver en que grupos podía apuntarme. Acabé apuntándome al grupo que hacia los tours por uno de los centros comerciales de Manila, Greenbelt. Sinceramente, al principio estaba un poco decepcionado ya que este era el único grupo al que me podía unir, sin embargo, resultó ser mejor de lo que me había imaginado. Ya había visitado este centro comercial, pero nunca como fotógrafo. Si no hubiese sido por el cansancio del viaje y del jet-lag, la luz y mi falta de experiencia para usar el sistema del flash y el tripode, podria haber estado un par de horas más sacando fotos. La lluvia hizo que fuese más interesante ya que desde hace un tiempo he querido fotografiar imagenes post-lluvia, temas con las gotas de lluvia, etc.. aunque suene extraño, no tuve estas oportunidades en Londres aunque puede ser porque allí no hay tanto "verdor" que es lo que los fotógrafos suelen buscar después de un día lluvioso.


Manila SC Photowalk-32

Manila SC Photowalk-1

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Sbalaniphotography.com Needs your help!- Sbalaniphotography.com Nescesita tu ayuda!


Hey Gang! I'm back! I must firstly beg for forgiveness (nothing new here) in the delay of the Images from the Salon de Comic of Benalmadena but I have a legitimate excuse! After the show I was incessatly preparing to leave the country and head over to the Phillipines (where I am no located and working) only to arrive to find myself with an internet so meagerly horrifying dial up seemed like a cheetah on speed (it was a "dsl" connection capped at 40 kbps but functioning at 5kbps). however after some incessant rewiring yesterday I was able to optimise the connection to its 40kb cap, and have filed through for an upgrade  :D. However during the night I did manage to upload the Images from the recent Scott Kelby Worldwide Photowalk which occurred on Saturday, and now I need your help! I have selected the best of the Images taken on the day and uploaded them to my flickr, however! I can only submit two to the SC Photowalk page, and I need your help to pick which two you my avid readers feel are your fave's. SO If you ever had to leave a comment, or mark upon my images or site to prove that you actually visit it and appreciate my photography, it would be for this post! 

The two images with the most comments, posts and fave selections will be the ones I submit to the site, so get commenting and fave-ing :D (and of course this is much appreciated!)

Sample images at the bottom
to view the full set of images click here

Tengo que pedir disculpas por el atraso de las fotos del salon, ya que desde el finde pasado, he estado preparandome para irme de viaje, y desde que he llegado en las Filipinas me he quedado practicamente sin internet (bueno he tenido pero a velocidades de 5kbps que practicamente significa zero). Desde entonces he atendido el photowalk mundial de Scott Kelby, donde grupos de fotografos por todo el mundo se reunieron este sabado pasado para ir de paseo a sacar fotos! Ahora lo interesante es que las mejores fotos entregadas a la web del señor Kelby seran partidiario a mogollonadas de premios! Con el gran premio teniendo un valor aproximado en 12 mil dolares en equipo fotografico! Ahora se que la competicion es dura (mas de 35 mil fotografos mundiales) por ese premio, pero no hay que perder confianza en que tenga la posibilidad de ganar! (ademas del primer premio hay otros diez premios secundarios que tampoco me importarian  :D). Asi que nescesito vuestra ayuda en elegir las fotos para entregar a la web! Las fotos ahora estan en Flickr que se podra acceder de esta pagina web! Y os pido que os paseis y eligir vuestras fotos favoritas o por haciendolas como favoritoss o dejando un comentario aki en el blog o ahi mismo en la zona d comentarios de la foto, y las dos fotos que tengan el mayor numero de votos o commentarios seran los que subire! asi que os ruego si disfrutais de mi fotografia y os gustaria ver me mejorar comentad y votar! 

Votos cierran el viernes, y las fotos las entrego el sabado Gracias a todos!!! :D

Ver todas las fotos pujar aqui

Manila SC Photowalk-2
Manila SC Photowalk-8
Manila SC Photowalk-11
Manila SC Photowalk-15
Manila SC Photowalk-17
Manila SC Photowalk-32

Monday, December 15, 2008

Double update

Well here I am yet again with another fun filled blogpost maintaining the regularity of irregularity that makes this blog special. Just as it seems that the blog is about to curl up and die from inactivity here I come returning to the scene with yet another over written post trying to mention everything I have to say without boring my fellow fans. (those of you that do actually bother to read what I write). Now just because I haven’t been blogging (a nasty habbit I hope to extinguish once Juggling Dissertation and pre production become a bad dream) doesn’t mean I haven’t been processing and shooting as you will clearly see below the latest images from my last studio work.
Lavi Photoshoot (14 of 17)
This one may have been a bit overexposed with the light but I still love the overall look of the image :D
Lavi Photoshoot (11 of 17)
Lavi Photoshoot (8 of 17)
After that though I did manage to join the London Graphics and Photo meetup group to go out on a night of shootin around London producing some of my more impressive shots in a while :D. I am very pleased and hope to maintain or improve upon the standard.
Spooky house
National Gallery main entrance2
London eye over thames
London Eye in all its glory

Of course X-mas season is coming up (meaning I need to shoot xmas lights and head out to hyde park to shoot the xmas thingy mabobber), but for those of you still looking for that uber last minute x-mas gift I will be making available a photobook with some of my Best Images, and a Calendar to take you into the new year which will be available from my deviantart page for purchase.