Photography - Sam Hardacre (Page 2)

Photography

A collection of 79 posts

Autumn is here

Trees are changing and shedding. It must be Autumn again.

Analog for Mac

I'm not really in the habit of writing about apps but I just wanted to put my thoughts down here in case anyone was wondering whether Analog is worth buying. For those who don't know, it's a new app for Mac for applying effects

The day I turned 26

A few shots taken on the morning of my birthday. The early morning sunrise gave some great lighting conditions.

Wedding day plus three

To kick off our week off, we had a number of errands to run so we spent much of the time in the car. We did manage to stop off for breakfast in Leeds.

Project 50 // Black and White

Nearly on the final stretch of Project50. The shots here sit within the Black & White category.

Wedding day plus one

The day after our wedding we had some family and friends at our house to carry on the celebration with some food and drink. I took many shots of guests but want to keep most of them offline.

Project 50 // Colour

Continuing to focus on certain areas, this time I was trying out colour for emphasis (or absence of contrasting colour in some cases).

Lewin's, Halifax

August 30th is my best man's birthday so we went into town for a celebratory beer. On our way to one bar, I snapped a few shots of this pub for Project50. This shot is an outtake which I wanted to post because I love the varied colour

Walk with Luisa

Lu and I paid a visit to my Mum and decided to walk down the canal (because I don't do that often enough, do I?). It was decent weather out so it seemed pointless taking the car.

Homemade macro

I work in an office next door to a guy called Dan [http://www.flickr.com/photos/dan_ambler/] who dabbles in photography. Occasionally, I'll break my day up by popping next door for a chin wag about something or other. Last week I were out on work&

Caterpillars at DC

Most Fridays at work often end with beer. If the weather is poor, we head to a pub but if it's fine, we tend to have a drink on our terrace. Our Client Services Director is growing a whole host of stuff, including lettuce. On this particular Friday,

Project 50 // Composition

Another set of photos from Project 50, this time trying to focus on composition. I think I've achieved some interesting shots with an odd one which isn't too great. I suppose it's a plus that I know where some went wrong and can learn

Shooting in Yosemite

If I weren't so afraid of heights, I would really love to do this. I've done rock climbing before but nothing higher than around 10 metres. I think I would actually freeze with fear. The views from that height must be incredible.

Salts Mill

Spent the afternoon with Luisa and my Dad walking around Salts Mill, taking a look at loads of Hockney work and trying our best not to spend loads of money on books.

Friday walk

I walked to work along the canal and took many shots. Nice way to start the day.

Rule of thumb

When shooting handheld out in the wilds of the world you might find in certain situations, like densely populated woodland, your images are suffering from a bit of motion blur. The main reason for this might be your shutter speed isn't quite fast enough for your lens and

Project 50 // Exposure

As I wrote [https://blog.nocturnalmonkey.com/back-to-basics/] before the project began, I wanted to split the project up into 5 separate sections to focus on different disciplines. The first ten days focussing on exposure and relying less on corrections in post-production. Corrections to exposure that is, I allowed myself

Lomokev's influences, friends and heroes

Posted by my mate on yesterdays project50 shot [http://www.flickr.com/photos/nocturnalmonkey/6018790029/], the video below is a presentation by Kevin Meredith, a photographer and author whose book (Hot Shots) sits in that pile I shot yesterday. Worth watching when you can sit and watch the slides.

Compose, then recompose

So for my first real article on this blog, I wanted to write about something that only really registered with me on a conscious level the other day and that is the idea of moving around a scene while shooting for better composition. This is a simple idea that most

Walk on the canal

Another day walking to work along the canal yet still so much to shoot.

Back to basics

My active participation in photography has lapsed rather badly this year due, in part, to time restrictions, lack of inspiration and in many cases, plain laziness. There have been occasions where we've attended an event where my camera could have been put to good use but I decided

Beer on the lawn

At work we took advantage of the lovely weather by drinking in the mid-afternoon Sun, playing croquet and generally just having a laugh.

Canterbury Cathedral

I've been to Canterbury Cathedral several times now and I never get bored of shooting here. The place is so big there's always something new to see and shoot. What I love most about this place is that parts of it have seen the last 1000

Shibden Park

We were hit with some incredible weather so Lu, my brother and myself took the opportunity to sit in the sunshine.

The Mountain

A wonderful time-lapse film showing off some of the wonders of our world.