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Hi all,
Have you heard of Kiosk Kiosk?
Its a metal box like construction, you may have seen on Pelham Street, Nottingham City Centre.
It is being used by Nottingham based businesses to sell and promote their work. Â The businesses are often very creative, and its a great opportunity to get out amongst the general public.
Andrea Palmer Photography Nottingham will be showing their photography skills, prints, and promoting their photography offers for 2010.
Come along and get a FREE PORTRAIT taken in the Kiosk studio
Book a FREE PORTRAIT SITTING at our studio on Lower Parliament Street, Nottingham.
See our OFFERS on Boudoir photography.
Take a look at our NEW WEDDING ALBUMS on show in the studio.
What a wonderful sight! I spent two hours just photographing, walking and enjoying the experience, the squirrels enjoyed it too.  
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Two images form the “love your body” Project. Both taken at my Nottingham studio.
Over the last few months i have been photographing women for a future exhibition.
Women have volentered to sit for me, and are happy to be part of an ongoing photographic exploration into real women. Women are inundated with messages from the media, magazines and  tv as to how they should look. whether they are young or older the messages given out influence women to feel inadiqate and unhappy about their bodies. My aim is to concentrate on what women love about their bodies, and to celebrate its beauty whatever shape, size  or age they might be.Â
I think its is important for women to feel confident, sexy, elluring, sucssesful, and truly themselves.  As a photographer i understand the power and impact of the image, one thing we must remember the next time we aspire to look like kate moss or Kilie Minogue it more than likely the images have been air brushed to   perfection
I hope you enjoy over the next two months this series of images. Â
      
 
  If there are any women in the Nottingham, Mansfield , Derby or Illkeston area who would like to take part in the exhibition please contact me via the website.�
The scene A cold wet night in Battersea London, to wet to be out with an expensive camera. No tripod at hand so quite difficult to take a sharp image.Never the less, still plenty of opportunity to get creative, using the frame of the hotel window to steady the camera, i took a series of images. Not a very interesting subject you might think, and you’d be right but, by flicking the camera up wards while having the camera set on bulb you have full control of how long you want to expose for, and what effect you want from the available light sources. If you don’t have bulb on your camera, try shooting in manual mode. Open the aperture as wide as it will go, then setting the shutter speed for around 60 your ready to experiment. If you  have street light, or light from vehicle head lights, its easy to make the light look interesting by moving the camera while taking the picture.Here’s the original image, to follow are two examples of the same image which have been enhanced in photoshop. A chance to get even more creative.
  The next two image examples, I used hue and saturation to enhance the colours, levels to lighten them up, and curves to enhance the buildings in the backgroud . 
  
Once the image was opened up in Photoshop it became clear that i wanted to transform the image into black & white. Using the hue & saturation tool i moved the sliders to remove the colour. The image needed more contrast, so the  Levels tool sorted this problem out, by moving the centre arrow i was able to improve the contrast. However this created too much darkness in the top of the image, so into tools, and using the brush tool I painted away some of the contrast from the top of the image. Now i wanted a little movement in the trees, i went into filter, distort, swirl, and used the slider to create as much movement as i needed. All thats left to do now is sharpen the image and I’m pleased with the results.Â
This image was taken while on holiday. It had been a dull week so far and I really wanted the sun to come out so I could capture some interesting shadows. However, this was to be my lucky day the sun streamed through the trees casting creepy shadows amongst the forest floor. It was a good chance to go for a long walk with my camera.
Not a  hugely interesting shot, so  now is the time for a few actions in photoshop.
A different Perspective
Here are just a few tips on how to make your landscape photographs more interesting.Â
So often we take landscapes photographs of a beautiful scene and think it will make a good photograph, more often though it really doesn’t capture the moment, somehow something is missing. So how can you make it look more captivating, so much so that it will look very different from the way we look at it through our own eyes, and hopefully make for a much more interesting piece of Art.
Try these few tips.
1)Â Â Think about using the camera lens as a frame look at what you can see through the lens, and ask yourself is this an interesting frame for the photograph.
2)Â Â Choose a focal point, something to focus on, to direct the eye to, and so make the viewer think beyond what he is looking at.
3)Â Â So now you have the frame and the focal point, now you need to think about angle. Try lying down, getting the camera a low as possible, see how the objects near to the camera become very large compared to the landscape your photographing.
4)Â Â Alternatively, get up high to take the photograph, you will get much more detail of the area your trying to photograph.
  Try these tips and see how you get on.Â
  These photographs were part of a collection of images for my exhibition, Urban SanctuaryÂ
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By getting as low down to the ground as possible with my camera  the grass and canes  appear to be much larger giving a different perspective to the image, The sky was an important element for the image, by taking the camera low more of the sky is revealed. I really wanted to give the feeling of space and freedom, showing that life at the allotments was a place of peace, beauty and freedom. Â
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