Beaconsfield Fireworks

Yesterday night my boyfriend, friends and me went to Beaconsfield Fireworks. I didn't take my camera as it had run out of battery and i had no time to charge it but my new iphone 5 came in handy :)
Since i haven't made a post for a while and i enjoyed the night and got a few good photos i've decided to share a few :)

Trax

Last weekend i went with my boyfriend and his friends to Trax, a drift event at Silverstone. I managed to get a few good shots of the cars in motion, but i have to admit some of the photos on my flickr my boyfriend did take! The photographs in the post i did take myself and i am quite pleased with them even though i didn't really know how was best to edit them.

Have a look at the rest of the set of photos here.

Handmade Bracelets

Above is a collage i recently made, the photos were taken using my iPhone and edited on instagram. I made it because the original bracelet the charm was on broke :( so i found some thread in my mums sewing basket and googled how to make a friendship bracelet. 

After creating this bracelet i was so pleased with it i wanted to make more, so i went on a shop to find more colours of thread. As i haven't had a lot to do with myself the past few weeks i decided to make one for my boyfriend and photograph the process of me making it for this blog post. The bracelet was really easy to make just time consuming. I even found some pages from google showing you how to create an adjustable ending to the bracelet. The wonders of google. 

Late night drives

I honestly am useless at updating my flickr, blog and facebook page. I have been on holiday twice this month and have hardly been using my camera apart from when I'm working. 

On Friday 27th July my family were given the sad news that my Grandad passed away. It was very sudden and it was due to old age as he was 92 years old! My family are coping so well with it but for the first few days I found it difficult to be sat at home because my mind began to wonder and that's when reality would hit me. So after returning home from my boyfriends one night I felt I had to go out and do something, for a while I have wanted to venture to somewhere high up and photograph the town, so I did. The photographs below are not the best quality or interesting, but it was more for me to get out the house and do something I love. It was definitely a challenge to remember what settings to use when doing night time landscapes. 

When I realised that end of town wasn't that interesting to photograph and the photos weren't amazing, I relied on good old litchfaktor technique because its easy and fun way to capture the lights. 

Final Major Project Exhibition Piece

These are the two pieces i created for my final major project exhibition for college called 'Unexpected'

We all judge someone on our first impressions, its not until we get to know them that we realize out first impressions are not always right. This is something that has always kind of fascinated me and i decided to challenge myself and try and present this through my images. 

After a 2 year photography course, these photographs don't exactly show the height of the skills and techniques i have learnt but to me they are the end of an era and a milestone in my hopefully ever growing photography work. 

Photoshoot

So i did my first shoot for my Final Major Project yesterday and i am so happy with the images that i quickly edited them and got them up on Facebook and Flickr. 

I haven't created the final image or the other shoots yet but i'm sure i'll be uploading them as soon as they are done. 

The photographs are of a friend of mine Sarah and her Mk2 Golf, Gunter. There are a few images of her dolled up and a few of her looking casual with her car. This is all linked to my theme for my Final Major Project but these images basically show the different sides to her. 

The location of the shoot was a place in wooburn green, my boyfriend suggested it as its a place him and his mates sometimes go skating that's undercover. You can't see much of the location in the images but i thought it was a really cool place to photograph in, there was one or two guys wondering around but they didn't really seem to mind. 

These are just some montages i put together on my IPhone but if you want to see them properly and in better quality along with the other photographs have a look on my flickr page :) http://www.flickr.com/photos/alex-beynon/

Modestep

Once again i was at WAMA last night photographing, this time round Modestep were performing! It was such a busy night and it was getting pretty difficult to get around the venue without getting bashed into, but i think everyone just put up with it because the music was incredible! 

After last night i do wish i stopped and enjoyed the music a bit more. Then again at the end of the day i do get paid to take photographs, see people i know and hear incredible music. 

The whole point of this post was to share my favorite photo of the night, as always with these events i don't realize that I've got the shot i wanted or even that i took the photo at that time, until i sit down and look back through them.

'Show me a sign' is Modestep's new song that was being performed when i took this photo. Pretty much everyone in the room had a light on their phone or their lighters up, pretty cool to see!

someone raise a light up

light up the sky above

if you're with me now, show me a sign

(put your f*cking lights up)

Sundays

Cold sundays when the boyfriend and friends are working on their cars results in me sitting in a car keeping warm in a massive jumper while taking photos on instagram. Day of rest!

Labradoodle

Just a few shots of my boyfriends labradoodle - Hetty. I dont really have that much to say about this set of photos but i wanted to share them. :)

Snow is falling

Everyone is talking about the snow thats now arrived in Wycombe. Since my original plans got cancelled because of the forcast of snow i ended up having a quiet night in home alone, but when the snow started and i looked out and saw my street so white and peaceful i couldnt help but brave the cold and get some snaps.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alex-beynon/

Event photography

I've decided not to post examples of the photos i took at the Vibrant Entertainment event on Friday 27th January (if you do want to see them they are all on there facebook page).

This time round i had figured out 2nd curtain sync for my flash and i tried it out when photographing groups of people. It took a while to get the hang of and a few times it didnt work out that well but they are getting better.

I wanted to share my favourite photograph from the night, i was trying to capture the coloured lights and their movement so i had turned the flash off and left the shutter speed on around half a second. Purely because of the timing of the lights and the settings of the camera this photograph was created, not intended but i really like it and its now the profile photo of the organisers facebook.

Olmpus om10

Mike's dad let me borrow his Olympus om10 35mm camera. So to test it out i used some out of date film (expiry date - 2005) just to have a play around with the camera and how the film turns out.

Our cars were getting pretty filthy so we decided to clean them today, not the best idea considering how cold it actually turned out to be. While we washed the cars i took some photos using the camera, then once we were done washing the cars i got the film developed at asda and put on a CD.

Even though the women had scanned the film in backwards so all the images were the wrong way round and half of them had been cropped some of them turned out pretty good and have a really cool vintage grain look to them!

Quite chuffed really, ended the day with a clean car and some cool looking photos :)

Summerset house

Ive been so overwhelmed with my UCAS application and trying to book a holiday with the girls. Now that its all done and over with ive been spending my time being lazy and just trying to relax, hiding away from this freezing weather!

But a highlight of my year so far has to be our college day out to Summerset House and around Covent Gardens. Its such a lovely part of london which i had never been to before.

We officially went there to see the exhibition inside summerset house, but being a college trip we didnt actually go look at it. There was an arranged time in the day for us to go iceskating. Having half of our college class going round an icerink becomes rather amusing. Being pushed over by your friends and dragging others around, it ended up being alot more fun than it sounds.

When we wernt messing around the girls that wernt iceskating offered to take some photographs. Even though i didnt take these photographs i felt like sharing them on my blog just because of how much i enjoyed the day and really makes me appreciate the people around me.

Vibrant entertainment

So once again i was down at Wycombe Acadamy on the 30th of December to photograph an event organised by Vibrant entertainment.

They had an awesome snow cannon which looked great in the photos. I tried out a few new settings i had researched in these photos and i think they are getting better and better with practice.

Really starting to make a name for myself photographing these events, its money in my pocket and its actually really fun!

The rest of the photographs are here if you want to have a look :D.