A couple of months ago i took a weeks holiday down in a little place in Cornwall, called Trevone, with my girlfriends family. I think it was my second ever time in Cornwall and as soon as i arrived in to the sun soaked beaches i knew exactly why i fell in love with the place the first time i visited.
It was sunny every day except for one where it wouldn't stop raining for about 24 hours. But when it was sunny my time was spent walking along the beach filled coast, learning to surf, body boarding, taking photographs of nearly everything i could, and getting sunburned. (Wasn't even that hot...)
Due to wanting to travel light i decided to just take my trusty Canon A1. I pretty much take it wherever i go now. I also brought with me the two types of film i always use now, which is the Agfa Photo Vista Plus 200 colour film, and the Agfa Photo APX 100 black and white film. The Vista Plus film gives really nice green/blue and washed out red tones to the photo. Both of these films are fairly cheap if you bulk buy and can be found on Amazon so you don't have to shell out loads for them.
These are just a small selection of the photographs i took, and more can be seen on my Instagram account at peterboothphotography, so go visit me there and give me a follow, like, and comment if you want!
Who doesn't like birds!? Well, a lot of people i think... But this male bullfinch is pretty cute though, right?
This bright male was pretty playful considering they're normally pretty shy. Being around double the size of tits and finches they are fairly easy to spot, especially as the males have the bright orange chest, with the females being a more of duller brown-orange.
Please visit my instagram page, peterboothphotography, and follow and share!
If there are any photographs you'd like, let me know and you can buy prints.
Lately i've been going through my photos from my trip to the Masai Mara and editing some. Some are available to view through peterboothphotography and would love more people to follow and like. The more followers i get, the more people i can share my work with.
The image bellow is a portrait of a family of elephants. They were so friendly and definitely not camera shy! I have more portraits and landscape photographs in monochrome to share so please follow peterboothphotography and leave me lots of lovely comments!
My latest post on my Instagram page is of a giraffe i saw whilst in the Masai Mara. Giraffes are not a rare sight, but they are still beautiful to watch. As this lone giraffe was walking across this plain landscape the photo framed itself. Click here to view my page, peterboothphotography.
I know it's been a while posting, but i'm going to make sure i post more from now on! I've recently just come to the end of my degree, which is one of the reasons for lack of posting, but i'll make sure i do a post about my work on macro photography i did in my final year. (I'm proud of it)
Anyway, the main reason for this blog post was to tell everyone that i've set up my professional Instagram account! I know i've done a previous post about the pros and cons of Instagram, and i may be contradicting my self from what i said in it, but i decided i would take the leap and set it up. One of the biggest issue people have with setting up an Instagram account are the copyright infringements of your work. Makes it a lot easier for people to view and share your work, which is definitely a good thing, but makes it easier for people to use your work without permission. Not so good.
Well after reading lots of opinions of the matter i thought "this stage in my career i need people to see my work and know my name..", so i did it. Many very successful photographers have accounts which definitely helps get their work seen. But what i made sure of was that the pictures i uploaded were at a resolution that couldn't be blown up past A5 size, watermarked, and made sure my account says all rights reserved on it. If anyone wants to use my work for anything that would be great! Just ask me first and i'd be happy to help!
My name on it is Peter Booth Photography, so i would love it if you guys out there reading this, who have it, give me a follow and enjoy! Those who don't? Get it and give me a follow anyway! Heh heh
If you can share and get my work seen that would be great! I'd love more people to enjoy my work!
Woah, it has been a while since i've written anything on here! Sorry about that! Might as well have a bit of a catch up then. Let everyone know what i'm up to currently. Well if you've read my previous posts and know me, you'd know i've finished my FdA Photography degree! 2 Years of improving my photography, finding my own style, finding a career path, learning from within the industry. Well, i just can't seem to get enough of education so i chose to do a top up year to get a full BA Hons degree.
The year pretty much consists of a dissertation and a self set project brief. I (stupidly) decided to do mine on an area of photography which has always interested me... but have no experience with... at all. I chose to do my dissertation and project on macro photography (photographing something very close up). The project specifically is producing a photo-book of macro images of arthropods. Starting from scratch though has really helped me understand macro photography a lot more, from the equipment used (both cheap and expensive), to expressing a subject which wouldn't normally be seen any other way. There are lots of very talented macro photographers out there such as Heather Angel, Elin Toger, Damon Clarke, Hadrani Hasan, and Thomas Shahan. Thomas was actually kind enough to reply to an email i sent him to ask him a bit about his work and the art of macro photography. (All their work is amazing so go and look them up).
Below is a quick image of my current cheap-ish macro set up. Nikon D90 body, old 50mm Canon prime lens reversed, set of cheap extension tubes, Nikon SB700 speed light, and a flash bracket for a sturdier grip. It's not my finished set up but it still works a treat. Under that is one of the first macro images i ever shot, so i know it's not great, but i just wanted to show how close up you can actually get, and that wasn't even using all my extension tubes!
Pretty much, to sum up, having a good photography year! Getting well into macro photography, and i'll try and keep more up to date with blogging.
(Little tip: If you reverse a 50mm prime lens that has the equivalent of 1:1 magnification. So when you shoot your image will be the same size as the sensor.)
Earlier in the year, for my foundation degree we managed to hire out a studio in the hipster central of London, Kingsland Rd, to show off the best of our work for a couple of weeks. On one of the nights we had a private night, but for the two weeks it was open for the public to come and see our work. It was an amazing feeling to just have your work up on show in London for everyone to see.
I chose to show of some of my favourite work i've done. The image which got shortlisted for the NatGeo competition was originally from a set of three i did, so i decided to show the other two close up portraits in the exhibition as they worked well with each other.
Now that the exhibition is down, i feels it's only right to share my images! So i have these two A2 mounted prints for sale. So if anyone is interested contact me at peterboothphotography@gmail.co.uk.
