Jenny & Stevens Wedding 13May

Been a while since I last blogged but these are a few events I have covered in the past few months.

In may I had Jenny & Stevens Wedding held at Cubley Hall Penistone. It was a great day had by all, apart from the rubbish English weather. However most of the shots worked perfectly, here are a few shots of it!

Prices for future weddings are increasing as of 1st July. Minimum prices now start at £50ph due to the overwhelming bookings I have had! There are also various packaged to suit your budget!

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Extraordinary Ordinary

Brief: to create something visually extraordinary as something ordinary through means of our imagination and skill. Playing around with ideas and creating extraordinary shots of everyday materials!! I chose to show what is behind fast food restaurant's most famous products! I really enjoyed the big mac with the needle in it, suggesting many things such as hormone injections, insulin etc...ill leave the images to your imagination to run wild with your ideas of visual perception

Enjoy little people...

Thurgoland FC Practice Shots

Took some practice shots on my saturday afternoon!! got a few good action shots but most if not 95% were rubbish as it is a real art to sports photography! Framing, focussing, lighting, ISO settings need to be constantly changed due to the british weather and moving around the pitch!!

Here are a few of the best shots i managed to edit to their best potential!

'Sam Moir Introduces' Cover

A mate of mine asked me for use of one of my recent works with the graffiti around the city. He chose one from an abandoned warehouse! He's linked me in for the final cover version to which he designed, heres a copy of it and a link to both Sam Moir's site and also Roman's Tumblr page: http://sammoironforgeradio.webs.com/ http://romanzad.tumblr.com/

New Puppy in the family

my family in law have just got a new puppy so was chance to take a few pictures!! they arent as good as i would like them to be but at 8 weeks old, Joey hasnt had his jabs yet...will post more pictures when spring comes around and i can get in the garden.

Urban Decay

some pics of my recent project to do with urban decay! sorry for the quality, i scanned and only saved them as small fiels (200kb) or so to save space and time on the neg scanner!! I feel as though they worked well with the Nikon FM2 - what a nice camera to work with! Enjoy!

Incentives for 2011

My new years resolution for 2011 is to create my own calendar for the end of next year (2011) and let it go on general sale on the net!! this means putting time in to create the best possible photos from each month! I will post regular updates of the chose image for each month and how you can get hold of these come this time next year!! Merry xmas to you all!

Self Portrait - Diptych Style

For our first project, we had the brief or representing a self portrait using RC paper using a 35mm FM2 to practice our darkroom skills and film skills. I had a variety of shots that worked well and some that didn't. My aim was to create a diptych with one side of me that people would see me as, and the other what I think I am. Showing two sides through one self portrait shot. It was interesting how these worked out to be honest. Some worked better than others however lack on control developing was hard. Here are a couple of the pictures of the best work. I took them off my iPhone as i didnt have my SLR with me at the time so this will have to do, i will upload my final piece or scan the images when i get them back from marking. Enjoy!

Tramlines Festival, Sheffield (Summer 2010)

There are some of my images from the Tramlines Festivals from Sheffield this summer, was great to finally work alongside artists and hopefully let it continue next year. The acts included Professor Green, Dane Bowers, Gabriella Cilme, Skepta, Craig David, Playground Mafia etc..

more images are available on my personal website at: www.andrewcrookes.co.cc

Bedlington Snow

Couple of images I took recently for my parents of their dogs during the snowfall. I really liked the outcome and was please with the editing of the pictures! Feedback welcome as I want to achieve the best possible results without flattening my images