I liked this shot from today. I think it looks cold and desolate, but today couldn’t have been more different. Beautiful warm spring sunshine and a calm sea. This small amount of mist was just blowing in across the sand and transformed the scene for a few minutes. The old breakwaters are silhouetted, as i was shooting into the sun.
I haven’t posted too much photography over the past couple of weeks. Even though I have been sorting and reorganising my galleries, I haven’t been out n about shooting, so it was nice to get back to it today. As I was setting up for some table top copy negs that I needed to do, I thought I would have a go at a bit of still life, while I was at it. My daughter had collected these shells, while we’d been on the beach this morning, so I thought I’d give them a shot. I processed them as duotones, using Silkypix and cropped in to a 1:1 aspect. Not exactly Ed Weston standard, but the process was fun anyway.
Following on from my last post on the Scracthtapes demo, I’ve created another little demo clip, showing how, through the use of overlays and textures, you can create a grunge style title sequence. Perfect for horror and thriller type title sequences.
This was created really quickly, using only about 5 or 6 clips. The old film clutter layers were stacked over the titles ( simple text, with a small amount of glow added ), which makes them flash and burn. These were then overlayed again, on to some grimey textures for the end part. All achieved by choosing different composite modes like overlay, difference and screen.
I’ve also added a non commercial licence download to the store, called “Dirt Cheap”. It’s a pay what you like download of 8 clips. So if you want to get stuck in and mess about with these clips, then you can, without paying for the full collection, as long as it’s for personal use. Go here for more info ( scroll down the page ).
Continuing with my update on the Scratchtape clips, I’ve added a couple of extra options, while I add all the individual clips for download. I’ve reset the pricing, which was set fairly low, with a view to adding in “pay what you like” versions for personal/non-commercial use. I’ll probably be blogging a little more on this over the next couple of weeks, as I set up more of the clips for download.
Here’s one of the latest clips added. More to come as the week goes on.
Burnout
$10.00 ( approx. £6.50 ) commercial & personal use
Super 8 frame burning out Format: ProRes 720p25 Sound: None Duration:10s (included in Dirt collection )
For some tips on how to get the most out of these clips, please take a look at the main Scratchtapes page of the website, where you can find tutorials as well as a few free clips.
I’ve been pretty busy recently, so it was nice to have the chance to get out over the weekend and in the sunshine no less and shoot some fun pictures. My sister and her husband have a new pup, called Remy, who isn’t the easiest target to photograph. With such strong backlight off of the sea and with fast movement, getting anything remotely right is pretty difficult. So I was pleased to get these shots of my daughter Evy, whilst she was playing with Remy. All manual focus, using an OM 50 1.8
This is also my first blog, using my old Smugmug blog to link to. With the change over to this website, I had started to upload blog images to here rather than Smugmug. Now with a bit of reorganising I’m back to using the old Smugmug blog to power this one. Sounds confusing, but sort of makes sense to me anyway 
