Went to Brighton for a few days and left my camera in on the day it was blistering, and took it out on the day it was windy and raining.
Just my luck.
By my standards am quite pleased with how a few of the shots came out. Am relying too much on the black and white function recently, I need to work out how to take the kind of rich colour shots I want to.
There was the obligatory pier/tourist shots...
This was just before another downpour and when the sun inexplicably came out! Was looking around for a rainbow but it never appeared. I do like the way the light is breaking through, it's a nice shot but maybe in the hands of someone more experienced it could of been brilliant.
Another shot I quite liked, captured the whole of the pier and I think the black and white added to the eeriness of it. Sad to see it slowly withering away. I had to snap it, despite it being possibly the most photographed object in Brighton!
The famous pier, again the weather was turning so it was better in monochrome. 24 hours earlier would of seen a much more vibrant shot but given the throngs of people around then I probably wouldn't of been able to snap it through fear of getting bumped off the edge or the camera being swiped by some chav sun slag.
I like this, maybe my favourite shot of the weekend. For once a colour shot that came out okay - brightened it up a touch in Photoshop but it's pretty much as it is. Is a touch dull but the day was like that.
And then I went for the REALLY tourist postcard-esque images. Can't get much more seasidey or Brighton then these! The ice-cream shot, this was quickly taken before my girlfriend ate it, I didn't snap an unsuspecting passer-by fear not - that would of been just weird...
Here's a shot most won't of seen....! (ahem) Probably not suited to the monochrome approach but looked very dull in colour. Again a problem of the day mixed with my piss-poor ability to take vibrant shots
A couple of the carousel on the beach, quite like the framing of the seagull on top of it. Added a tint of blue to both images, just a bit of trial and error and something away from the orange/gold monochrome style.
Then the rain came, tried to get a couple of snaps of people on the beach with umbrellas - eerie kind of shot of being near a place most go to for sunshine while cowering from the rain. Just looks like people with umbrella's really! Not the kind of atmospheric images I was looking for...
Few other shots from the weekend....
A local game of basketball, the sun was just coming back out and it was getting very heated. Shame the snaps can't replicate the trash talk that was going on. Very 'White Men Can't Jump' and this is 'ma house!'. Could barely snap through laughing so much.
Couple of people shots, fear not the child wasn't some random on the beachfront he was my girlfriends nephew. Think it came out quite well and the grain adds a lot to what is quite a simple image. I like the perplexed expression on his face.
I like this shot too, tried to frame it well and it came out okay - still not sure whether this could do with some tweaking too but I've left it exactly how it was shot bar changing to black and white...
And finally some hotel room snaps (easy!) - was in quite a photo mood so started playing around with objects in the room, and irritating my girlfriend too with constant snapping while she was trying to relax.
