I’ve been working on this for months, constantly changing my mind about the layout, colour scheme and functionality. I’m a bit of a magpie when it comes to design, I’ll be browsing the web and I’ll come across some element of a site that I like better than the one I currently have, so in [...]
This is my first upload since last November, mainly because of work and a major redevelopment of my entire site and associated services that I’ve been working on. Just as I thought I was getting near to completion the developers went a released a new version of the software that changed everything! Anyway I said [...]
Orla’s mum and I are old friends from college, so when I said I was looking to expand my portfolio she kindly offered to let me take some photos whilst she was visiting family. We met up at her parents house and after taking advantage of the light in the conservatory, we moved out to [...]
This week it’s back to the Ladybower Reservoir for a walk in the sun and an ice cream. Although I like this shot it will never compare to the missed opportunity of a Lancaster Bomber flying over a clearing in the trees. Whilst taking a quick break after walking most of the length of the [...]
My last day off, so it’s off to Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire to make the most of the sunshine. This shot was taken whilst exploring the Abbey, although I regret not taking the time to revisit this part later in the day when the sun got a bit lower and the shadows longer.
I’ve got some time off work, so this week I spent a day climbing around at Brimham Rocks in Yorkshire. Whilst at the top of one of the largest rock formations, I decided to take some shots that I could later stitch together into a panoramic image using Photoshop. This finished image is composed of [...]
This photo marks my first official week of business trading as Andy Ogden Photography. Prior to this I’ve not done any chargeable work, so it was quite exciting. Armed with newly printed business cards and with my girlfriend taking orders I spent the day taking photos of dogs on an agility course. The event was [...]
The photos are currently in the process of uploading, there are over 400 of them so it will take a little while. The earlier in the day you went around the Have a Go agility course, the sooner your photos will be available! You can purchase them as they were shot or if you wish, [...]
On Saturday I took a drive over the Humber to Spurn Head, the weather was set to be good and a walk along the beach was never going to be bad idea. I’ve only been there once before and I can’t say I remember anything other than the seemingly endless drive, so this was the [...]
Trying to keep up the quality of my 52 shots despite a busy spell of late. Decided that since the forecast was so good, a drive out to Spurn Point would be a good option to combine some photography with time out in the glorious sunshine. I’m loving the black and white shots lately, so [...]
I’m working through some old photos and after last weeks Fun Day, thought I’d upload some more shots from the West Marsh Canine Academy. Before I started taking my own dog, Olly, I went along with my camera and took some shots of Tilly and Otto amongst other. Otto was only a puppy at the [...]
During the Fun Day on Sunday I met Deb & Nigel, the proud owners of an 11 week old Cockapoo named Edward. They wanted to get some photos taken of him whilst he was still small, so we arranged a shoot at their home for Tuesday evening. He was much more energetic than the tired [...]
Today saw the West Marsh Canine Academy’s Fun Day take place at the West Marsh Community Centre. Things kicked off at 12:30 with an Agility course and a Scurry, wish a dog show taking place later on. I was on hand at the Agility course taking photos of the dogs and their owners as they [...]
One of my favorite shots so far during this 52 project is a black and white shot of Waltham Windmill taken for week 5. For months I’ve been planning to visit the mill at Wrawby and finally made it there yesterday whilst the weather was turning. Behind the mill the skys were grey but in [...]
My 52 project image for this week was a photo of a bumble bee in mid-flight in a lavender bush. This was taken at Lincolnshire Lavender in Heapham, near Gainsborough. I had no idea there were any local growers of lavender, to my knowledge the nearest was in Yorkshire so at only 45 minutes away [...]
A few months back I wrote a post entitled 10 Beautiful Landscape Photos, showing pictures that I aspire to in my own photography. One of those pictures was taken at sunrise in a Lavender field, with the purple rows looking amazing in the early morning sun. Ever since I’ve wanted to go to a Lavender [...]
I’ve got lazy lately and so this week I decided I needed to make more of an effort. Last time I did that it was off to Flamborough, but this time I wanted some Landscape shots unlike anything I’ve done before. So after talking with a work colleague I decided that the Peak District was [...]
I’m finding myself struggling to come up with something different every week lately. So on Saturday evening I had to come up with something quickly and decided to try and get a night shot of the dock tower, taken from the humber bank. Unfortunately the dock tower isn’t as well lit at night as I [...]
So I’m up to week 28 of my 52 project and I’m struggling! I’ve been lucky enough to land a couple of paid portrait shoots scheduled to take place over the next month, which has resulted in me going nuts over my website. A couple of weeks ago I added pricing and ever since I’ve [...]
Since the Olympic Torch visited Grimsby this week, I could hardly let the opportunity go by, so my girlfriend and I went to the torch welcoming event at Meridian Park in Cleethorpes. The last torch was carried into the venue by 92-year-old World War II veteran Jack Andrew. Unfortunately the professional photographer and TV crews [...]
It’s been a busy week as I’ve had photos to edit from a kids shoot I did last week and on top of that I’ve finally sorted out some prices and got them up on my site. I’ve got my first paid shoot at the beginning of August, so I’ll be registering as a sole [...]
Inspiration can be found in the strangest of places, for example whilst shopping at Tesco. I’ve spent most of my spare time this week working on my website, then my Saturday afternoon doing a shoot of a friends kids. So I managed tor each Sunday without having given my 52 photo the slightest thought. As [...]
I’d been looking forward to this shoot ever since Kelly, Beth and George’s mum, asked if I could take some pictures of them. I set up my mobile backdrop in their Grandparents front room after rearranging some furniture, and got started. Neither of them really knew what to do, so I decided to get them [...]
*** DISCLAIMER: No Bees were harmed during the taking of this photo *** I found this dead Bee on my window sill the other day and decided the opportunity was too good to miss, even though I did a macro show 2 weeks ago for week 22. I used my 18-55mm with my reversing ring [...]
At 3 months old, Lily Rose is my youngest model to date. I knew that whatever happened it was going to be a learning experience, as it was all down to Lily Rose and how she would react to the camera. Unfortunately after 5 minutes she got a bit upset and we had to stop [...]
Last night was the first time I’ve attended an event run by @Twipodlincs and it won’t be the last. I don’t get to spend much time around other photographers, so to be made to feel so welcome last night by other people that share my love of photography was great. Miles and Rob have done [...]
I’ve just booked my place for the twipodlincs event, taking place on Thursday the 6th in Lincoln. This is my first time attending one of these, so I’m not sure what to expect. The details I have seen so far say the evening will be filled with photography chat and the chance to network with [...]
This weeks shot sees my first attempt at split toning/cross processing. I’ve seen lots of photos over the last year that use this effect but just didn’t know how it was achieved, after reading a magazine article on cross processing I finally knew what to look for and so starting hunting out some tutorials. I [...]
It seems I’ve been a bit lazy with my posts lately and I’ve not added any new content to the site. I’ve now added all my recent 52 images to the Project gallery and prepared tomorrows post in advance as I’ll be out all day. I’ve got a few shoots lined up over the next [...]
UPDATE: Thanks to steb1 on the BBC Springwatch group on Flickr, I can now identify these as the common garden spider or Araneus Diadematus. It’s 9:23 on Saturday morning as I type this, which means I’ve actually managed to finish my 52 shot early for a change!! I was planning to do some more light [...]
This was my first opportunity to shoot a wedding, although I was an usher and not the official photography as this was my sisters wedding. I couldn’t miss the opportunity to take some photos, so I brought my camera with me and took the opportunities I could get. We had a great day and I [...]
I’m a few days late posting this, but I couldn’t let it pass by without shouting about it a little. On Sunday the 22nd of April my Flickr account finally reached 10,000 views of my photographs. To count towards this figure someone actually has to click to view the full size version of the photo, [...]
Left this one a bit late… I’ve had it easy the last few weeks as I’ve been out getting used to my new Sigma, but this week I’ve mostly been indoors due to the rain and haven’t really felt inspired. This took longer to set up due to the need for lighting and actually arranging [...]
The original plan was to take a suitable shot during a day out at Warwick Castle, however the fact that it’s a tourist attraction pretty much put that idea out of the window straight away. Despite having my new Sigma 10-20mm lens on quote a lot, I wasn’t able to take a tripod with me [...]
Last Friday I published the first in what is a new style of posting for me, 10 Beautiful Landscape Photos. Having contacted a number of different photographers asking for permission to use their images, I couldn’t honestly expect a 100% response, but the conversion was pretty damn good. One that didn’t make it before I [...]
Last week I decided to invest in a new lens, and with my increasing interest in Landscape photography I decided an ultra-wideangle lens was the way to go. A friend introduced me to MPB Photographic a while ago and I’ve often window shopped, but this time I picked out the Sigma 10-20mm F4-5.6 EX DC [...]
This weeks photo was always going to be a landscape shot, as this week I purchased a second hand Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM lens from MPB Photographic. So far I’ve only taken shots of sunsets, which set the theme for this weeks image quite early on. I’ve been looking out of my window [...]
Since I bought my first DSLR last year I’ve been working to try and improve my photography, looking back at my early photos it’s not just my ability that’s improved, but also what I think makes a good image. I’ve spent hours trawling through photography websites looking at photos and commenting on my favorites. As [...]
We’ve had lots of fog recently here on the East coast and I’ve not taken advantage of it before today. I decided early on yesterday that if it was foggy when I woke up this morning I’d jump in the car and go hunting for a good shot. I went out towards Caistor in the [...]
I’ve had image like this in mind for a while now and so I asked my girlfriend if she’d help me out. I offered to buy her a pair of false lashes and any makeup she needed, so I got a funny comment of a guy on the market when it was me that picked [...]
Last year I had a brief dabble with the Tumblr system. After a couple of months of making the occasional post it fell out of favour like most things eventually do. There just wasn’t anything holding my interest. I’ve decided that it can’t hurt to get even more visibility for my images and so I’ve [...]
I decided I need to make an effort and push for soothing a little more this week, so planned a day trip to Flamborough Head for some coastal shots. I went there once on a Geography school trip and remembered that there were some great features such as arches and caves in the rock caused [...]
Today I received a message via fotoblur.com from Ivan Terzic, asking for permission to use the week 2 photo from my 52 project I’ve been framed! on his blog. To my knowledge this is the first time someone has selected one of my images and chosen to use it as an example of work they [...]
Trying not to be lazy this week and just paste in the comment from the Flickr upload, but then last weeks posts were a bit of an afterthought. This weeks shot was opportunistic, and was a backup backup shot, just incase the snowdrop pictures I had planned didn’t work out. I’m over snowdrops now, they’re [...]
Nothing fancy this week and the title says everything. I had no particular image planned this week, other than to try and use a shot from a couple of days in York. So whilst trying to decide what to have for breakfast I took the opportunity for this natural light portrait of my girlfriend Kristina. [...]
I did so well 2 weeks ago, and then I go and completely forget to write a blog post for last weeks 52 upload. I’m writing this on Tuesday, 2 days after uploading week 8′s photo, so this is a record for late blogging… oops! Well here it is, it’s the edit I planned, but [...]
I’m actually posting this blog post within 5 minutes of uploading the 52 image!! (First time for everything) Guess what… this isn’t the photo I wanted for this week. It seems my 52 is fast becoming a range of last minute ideas, but I hope the quality isn’t suffering as a result. This week I’d [...]
Another massivly late blog post to accompany the weeks upload… ooops! I really need to get into the habit of writting these posts at the same time as I upload. Problem is that by the time I’ve finished editing the image and written the comments ready for upload, I’m usually feeling a little guilty over [...]
This isn’t the photo I planned to upload this week, but despite that I’m really happy with it. My plan was to take a photo of some railway track with my girlfriend out of focus in the background balancing on the rail. Dangerous? Illegal? Well not not really, as there a section of disused railway [...]
Due to a heavy week at work I’ve not got round to posting the details of week three, although the photo was uploaded on schedule on Sunday the 15th to keep this project on track. I got the photos taken nice and early started work on the edit in the afternoon, but by 11pm I’d [...]
As part of my 52 project I decided to try and take advantage of one of the award groups available on Flickr. The idea is that you post you picture to the group and in return you use some provided HTML code to give an award to 5 other photos within the group. This is [...]
Left this a bit late, must try harder! Over the last year I’ve found a few great projects from people doing 52 or 365 projects consisting primarily of self portraits. I’ve added a couple of these to my contacts on Flickr so that I see see where these projects lead the twisted minds that are [...]
During the past year I’ve spent money on various lighting options including reflectors, continuous lighting, speedlights and now studio lighting. Each purchase has been intended to be a cheap option to avoid the need to buy expensive studio lighting, but I’ve come to the conclusion that you get what you pay for when it comes [...]
Here goes… Having followed various projects during the last year and spent far too much time thinking about what I could do, I’ve decided to take the plunge. I’ve just viewed the last photo by Mr Flibble in his epic 730 project, so I figure I could at least manage a photo a week for [...]
Work’s been pretty busy lately, so between that and my constant dissatisfaction with the design of my site, I’ve been neglecting my blog and uploads. In my last post Lens Hire I explained that I was awaiting the delivery of a 50-500mm Sigma EX lens. It was fantastic and I WANT ONE! I got some [...]
After an initial trip didn’t go to plan, I decided to hire a telephoto lense from hireacamera.com. I’ll be heading out to Donna Nook with extra batteries and memory cards. I can’t wait!
I’ll take any opportunity I can get to gain more experience, so when my sister Zoe asked me if I’d mind going out to Louth to take some photos or her and her fiancé Ali I wasn’t about to say no. This is their first Christmas together and so with the wedding booked for next [...]
After the success of the first shoot, Delta decided to brave her dislike of having her photo taken in order to have some shots with Amber. For a change of scenery we headed up to Cleethorpes to the area around the boating lake. The next hour couldn’t pass without at least one person rolling down [...]
Laura and I have been friends for years and she’s like family to me, so when she asked me to take some photos of her two girls Charley and my Goddaughter Maisey I couldn’t wait. We decided that it would be best to let them behave naturally, rather than making it forced, so we arranged [...]
My friend Delta asked me if I would mind taking some photos of her daughter Amber, as she didn’t have a recent pictures. Having recently walked around Weelsby Woods, I suggested that we go there as we could stop whenever we saw a good spot and Amber might also get to climb some trees! With [...]