Skate Practice Part II

We went out again to the park last night for her to do some more practice, and without thinking about it happened to go at a really good time for sun flare-age and generally nice light.

So here are some of my favourites...

Double Exposures

As part of the prep for my finals I needed to take some photos of pretty flowers and stuff, and being as one of my favourite photos I've taken with my Holga 135BC is a double exposure, I thought I may aswell do some more considering it fits in with my photog work.

Sooo, I got the film developed today and I'm really happy with how they turned out.

 I also got a few others from this film (single exposures) that I really like...

Here's a link to the rest of them on my lomography.

Shove and Marriage Roller Derby Bout

Yesterday we went to watch a roller derby bout between Severn Roller Torrent and Bedfordshire RollerGirls because my sister is in SRT and it was her first time skating in a bout. It was amaaaaaazing. I took lots of photos (of course) but mostly just from the seats, being as it was my first time seeing a roller derby bout so I wanted to watch it properly. I've been through all the photos today (it only took me 7 hours) and overall they're not to bad, considering. Next time I think I might go down and stand/sit nearer to the track to hopefully get some really good shots. Anyway, here are some of my favourites out of the hundreds I took...

Skate Practice

When my sister went to uni in September she joined Severn Roller Torrent Roller Derby League which is really awesome. She finally got her own skates and the rest of her gear and brought them back with her when she came home for a couple of days this week.

Being as she's in the bout in a couple of weeks she needed to practise and so I finally got to take some photos and practise panning on her, which I've been wanting to do for ages. The first attempts were pretty much complete failures but I persevered (like I always have to with photography) and I got some ones that I'm really happy with in the end. I also took some non-panning ones which I think look awesome too.

Now I've practised a bit and know I'm capable, hopefully I'll take some photos at their bout and be able to get some good ones. :D

 

Filters

I've looked at the set of Holga filters on lomography.com about a billion times but I always sort of think, couldn't I just make my own instead of spending £30 (+£12 UK delivery) similar to what I've seen other people do? I always had it in mind so I looked out for things like sweet wrappers I could substitute for the proper things.

One English lesson almost a year ago, it was one of the last lessons before study leave so our teacher brought in a box of Celebrations or something like that which everyone had one of, and then my friend Izzy helped me make sure they didn't rip or throw away their wrappers and she helped me collect them (isn't that nice?). I tried them out briefly when I first got them but other than that they've just been in the zip pocket of my bag, until about an hour ago.

I've got 3ish weeks until my unit 2 AS photography exam and one aspect of what I'm doing for it is the idea of paradise and that sort of thing, so I'm going to be testing out a lot of cool stuff (like getting some disposable cameras and doing various things to the lens) to make really pretty, colourful photos. I've been messing with gradients in Photoshop but I remembered about these makeshift filters I had earlier, so decided to give them a try, and I got some really nice results (in my opinion) and pretty much exactly what I was hoping for.

I took some with my Nikon D40 and some with my Holga, so here are some of the digital ones: