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Great band, great guys, great gig, hangover on Friday… nuff said!

More photos in my flickr photoset.

Popup’s Official Website.

The utata weekend project for May 11th was Utata Lights Up. What better an opportunity to get out some of my “novelty” lamps and try some shots.

Not having a home studio I setup my lamps in my small hallway where I could close all the doors and eliminate any street light from the streetlamps of London.

I think the results are not too bad for a home setup, especially as I don’t even have a tripod. How did you manage to hold the camera for so long then? I hear you ask. Easy… balance it on a dining chair!

Here are my attempts:

I didn’t get them submitted over the actual Saturday/Sunday of the weekend but hey, close enough!

Dearly Beloved…., originally uploaded by ebotunes.

10th May 2007 - Prince @ Koko, Camden, London

Random gigs are the best…

…especially when it’s Prince playing at Koko Camden. Quite possibly the gig of my life.

Didn’t get any photos but here’s one from ebotunes.

I’ve done some re-work on my submission for Iron Photographer 21. I’ve split the photo into 2 layers - 1 with the background and 1 with the strawberries. I’ve faded the background and brought up the red colour in the strawberries. I definitely need a bit more practice at selecting parts of the image for creating layers (there are a few highlight type halos around the strawberries) but I think it looks much better than the original and certainly not bad for a first attempt. The removal of the orange tint and contrast of colourful strawberries with the de-saturated background really makes the subject pack more of a punch!

Here they are side-by-side. What do you think?

5th of May was flickr day. Flickr launched a day-long photo project for every member to take part in - 24 hours of Flickr. The idea was that everyone grabs their camera, snaps away throughout the day then chooses their best photo to submit to the group photo pool. A companion book will be published with a selection of pictures from the event and pictures will be used during flickr-sponsored events throughout the summer.

So I didn’t have much planned for Saturday so wasn’t sure what to take photos of. I decided to just head out around London and see what caught my eye. The cut of pictures that came out ok are in my photoset. After much deliberation I have decided to submit my photo “Blue” to the pool. I’ve done a bit of post-processing to bring out the blue in the photo but apart from that it’s just as it came out of the camera.

I hope you agree with me that this is the best choice. Let me know if you do (or not!) and keep your fingers crossed for me to get published in the 24 hours of flickr book.