Born in South England, grew up in Berkshire. I spent three years in Thailand during part of my childhood and travel to Europe often. My goal is to showcase the world as we know it, with all of the beauty it has to offer. I enjoy color and will often photograph vivid subjects, exaggerating their features. I don't usually shoot commissioned work, however, if you like my style and are interested in having some shots done, send me an email. If I like the assignment, I'll shoot it for free. For my own personal enjoyment and to give you some wonderful photographs to treasure. e-Mail: [email protected]
Mobile: +44 7824 697082 There are a few shots I am undeniably astounded with, yes they are my own, no I did not mean for them to turn out as well as they had. Before I'd taken a look into photography, into how cameras work and how they can be manipulated to take all manner of shots, I figured it was going to be pretty difficult. It isn't, at least, it's not difficult to get a decent photo if you know a few fundamentals.. Without some basic understanding of composure a fantastic shot can instantly become terrible. Imagine a close up of a rare hummingbird with half of its wing missing off shot? Composing your subject into your photo is important, I'm still working on this today, checking my shots and double checking again. With composure comes aperture. Personally I shoot in aperture mode, I guess this is due to learning about my camera (from some great Nikon tutorials) in aperture mode as opposite to shutter speed or time, as well as wanting that blurred background. Aperture is basically how much of your photo is in focus, or, for most, how much your photo is blurred. Take the amount that the aperture ring is open or closed and this in turn focuses/blurs your photo. Using distance, wide open (f/1.4 for example) is a short depth of field, while almost closed (say f/16 or f/22) is a very long depth of field, and so keeping your photo sharp. However, just because you're shooting a portrait does not mean you open it up wide and the same goes when shooting landscape, you don't need to close it all the way down. With these two skills somewhere understood I find myself able to come up with shots that I'm really quite impressed with. There's more. I do indeed edit my shots with Lightroom, bringing out highlights, making blacks blacker and highlights lighter etc.
-Si
