I've decided that I would like to start adding more photography to my blog, in particular I would like to share my photographs of my pet Pygmy Marmosets. These lot are older photos which I have just grouped together and whacked a watermark thing on, they are a random bunch with varying levels of post processing. All of these photographs where taken using my Canon 60D fitted with an old 50mm Olympus OM f1.8 manual lens. For the close ups I used a set of three macro tubes and all of the shots here are hand held. I've got quite a few more photographs which I will mark up and upload in later posts, please take a look and leave a comment if you enjoy my images.
I recently bought a Canon 60D DSLR camera and thought I might start a series of blog posts showing photographs which I am especially happy about taking. This is a photograph taken of one of my family's many Pygmy Marmosets and I like the composition and layers in the shot. I've messed around with the levels a little bit on Photoshop to make the image more dramatic.
Pygmy Marmoset
A few weeks after making this post I decided to have another go at the post processing on this picture and here is the result, which I think is an improvement.
This Summer I have been lucky enough to get away to three different countries: Majorca with my Dad, Portugal with my Mum and my favourite Rhodes with my beautiful girlfriend Shelley (link to her blog). This year I decided not to take my usual and now dated fixed lens semi-pro camera (Samsung Pro815) instead opting to just use the camera on my Nokia N8 mobile phone. To most photographers this may sound absurd but trust me the quality of the images from the the 12MP Carl Zeiss lensed phone camera matched those of my old big camera. Obviously I would miss the manual focus ring but overall I decided the disadvantages did not justify lugging my camera about. If the holidays had been more photography related rather than family and romantic it might have been different. A few months back I bought a set of glass lenses for my phone camera which stay with me on my keyring at all times (macro, wide and fish-eye) and I have downloaded a phone application giving me more control over the cameras settings so I do have more manual control than one might expect from a phone camera. An impressive feature of the Nokia N8 is its ability to film in HD with surprisingly good results, to have a camera which catches usable quality footage in one's pocket at all times is a blessing for anyone interested in cinematography. Here are some examples of images and a video taken from the N8 on my holidays.
My Dad Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliott
Devilfish on a bike ride
Me and two of my Brothers
One of my nieces
Another niece
Shelley's cat
Me and Shelley
Lizard I caught in Rhodes
Here is a short edit I made from some footage taken in Rhodes
