Early Friday morning I headed into Manchester to shoot some more streetscapes. It was right nippy, and I haven’t managed to locate my photographer’s carpenters fingerless gloves for some time now. However I still managed to put in some time with some long exposure using some ND filters. I shot this with an ND400, and merged 3 separate expsoures together (3, 7 & 15 seconds) in Photomatix. These are the 3 original exposures:3 Secs7 secs15 secsI found that once the exposures had been merged and the result tone-mapped, there were issues with the text on the signage to the...

This is the final image I’m doing in this series for a while. It’s part of my A-level coursework, and I feel that I’ve got enough for the time being. Some are far from perfect, and I’d really like to do a few again, and have ideas for a few more. However, it’s time to call it a day as far as the coursework is concerned, and get the workbook & prints sorted out. So for the final image, it was very interesting to hear & see people’s reaction to the topic and the image. In the interests of ambiguity, I decided that in this image, I didn’t want any...

I’ve just popped the images from this previous post into a short movie over at Animoto. They’re creating a high res one for me as I type, but it could take a while. So here’s a lower res one for the time being. Enjoy. N.Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.Related Posts:Boundaries Project. Part 6My best of 2009More wintry scenesRugby is cancelledSnowy sunset in DerbyshireHappy New Year!Boundaries Project. Part 5Boundaries Project. Part 4Boundaries Project. Part 3Boundaries Project. Part...

For the next image in my Crime? series, I wanted to do something drug related. I fixed a few ideas in my head as to how I envisaged the final scene, though I had a few problems deciding how I’d get drugs of some kind into the scene, yet still maintain the degree of ambiguity around which the project revolves. Having done a little research, I put together a wrap of cocaine (icing sugar) and got some tobacco and large rizlas to use as my props, booked a hotel room at the Crowne Plaza by Manchester Airport with some Air Miles I’ve been accruing (I did try to blag it for a couple of hours,...

Finally, I’ve managed to go through the thousands of images I shot last year and select my favourite image from each month. I meant to do this last year, but what with one thing and another, I never managed to get round to it, but this year I’ve forced myself to set aside sufficient time. It’s been quite an interesting exercise all in all, and I can really see how my skills have developed over the year. Unfortunately though, there are only 11 images rather than 12 as it appears as though June was a very lean month for me photographically speaking. Don’t ask me why! I...

Snowy fence in the Bollin Valley by Neil Alexander Here’s another couple of images shot in the midst of the worst snow since the last lot of really bad snow. The first image was made on the way down to the Bollin Valley from Hale Barns. The second image was made about half a mile away on the same night. I found this spot where the car lights would make a windy pattern along the road, but there were so few people around that night (it was the night after the really heavy snowfall in the north west of England earlier this month), I had to wait an eternity for a car to come past. In the end I got...

Another image from the abnormally heavy snowfall we had last week. Shot with D300 and toned in Silver Efex.Related Posts:Boundaries Project. Part 6My best of 2009More wintry scenesSnowy sunset in DerbyshireHappy New Year!Boundaries Project. Part 5Boundaries Project. Part 4Boundaries Project. Part 3Boundaries Project. Part 2Monday night’s model...

I ventured up into the Peak District armed with my new snow chains and determined to get a wintery sunset image of some description. It was just as well that I’d packed the chains as within yards of turning off the main road, I got completely stuck in the snow. 5 minutes later and with extremely cold fingers I was up and running again and I can safely say that driving through the tracks that had previously only seen tractors and land-rovers, was a piece of cake. Anyway not altogether sure what the name of this little hamlet was other than it’s somewhere off the A635 near Buxton! As my...