Test Shoot

right seeing as for the last two months i have struggled with the technical side of my project, i went back to basics today and had dave hill talk me through how to use a DSLR as i was film based and never fully understood the digital, so today with new found knowledge i thought i would do a little test shoot featuring jumping and the only person around . . . . my 3 year old nephew milo.

first i used the 18-55mm lens

ISO 400, F8, 1/125

ISO 400, F8, 1/1000

 and then i realised my iso was 400 so i went back to 100 especially when it is a bright day

ISO 100, F8, 1/250

 then i swapped to a 50mm

ISO 100, F8, 1/80

obviously there was more images but these were the best, now all i need to do is get out there and get an image for friday :D

just found these images recently on google and i have to say i love them, downside was that none of them were credited to a photographer so down that i can't see if there is anymore in this series.

Trent Parke: Humanistic Photgraphy

Marie Colvin

Colvin, an American reporter for the British newspaper, and photographer Remi Ochlik both died in the attack, the French government said.

Eyewitnesses claimed the two journalists were killed by a rocket as they fled from a building that had been shelled by Syrian government forces.

Frederic Mitterrand, the French culture minister, said the journalists had been "pursued as they tried to flee the bombardment".

Reporters working in Homs, which was been under siege since Feb 4, have become increasingly concerned in recent days that President Bashar al-Assad’s forces have “locked on” to their satellite phone signals and targeted the buildings they are coming from.

Abu Abdu al-Homsi, an opposition activist, said the Syrian Army had cut phone lines into the city and were bombing any buildings where they detected mobile phone signals.

A video posted on YouTube by opposition fighters purported to show the aftermath of the attack on the house, with two unidentified bodies lying in the rubble.

At least two other Western journalists - including the British photographer Paul Conroy who was on an assignment with Colvin - were reportedly wounded after more than 10 rockets hit the house.

Colvin, who had worn a black eye patch since losing an eye to a shrapnel wound while working in Sri Lanka in 2001, was the only journalist from a British newspaper in Homs.

Only yesterday, she had reported on shelling in the city in a video for theBBC, as well as CNN, in which she described the bloodshed as “absolutely sickening”.

She accused Assad’s forces of “murder” and said it was “a complete and utter lie that they are only targeting terrorists…the Syrian army is simply shelling a city of cold, starving civilians.”

Colvin was reportedly staying next to a hospital in a house that was widely known to have been set up as a makeshift press centre by opposition supporters.

Yesterday she visited the hospital and described seeing a baby die there after he had been struck in the chest by shrapnel.

In a report published in the Sunday Times over the weekend, Colvin spoke of the citizens of Homs "waiting for a massacre".

"The scale of human tragedy in the city is immense. The inhabitants are living in terror. Almost every family seems to have suffered the death or injury of a loved one," she wrote.

Her editor, John Witherow, spoke of his "great shock" at her death, describing her as "an extraordinary figure in the life of the Sunday Times" who would be "sorely missed".

He said she was: "Driven by a passion to cover wars in the belief that what she did mattered. She believed profoundly that reporting could curtail the excesses of brutal regimes and make the international community take notice. Above all, as we saw in her powerful report last weekend, her thoughts were with the victims of violence."

Rupert Murdoch, who owns the Sunday Times, described Colvin as "one of the most outstanding foreign correspondents of her generation" who had a "determination that the misdeeds of tyrants and the suffering of the victims did not go unreported".

David Cameron said her death was "a desperately sad reminder of the risks that journalists take to inform the world of what is happening and the dreadful events in Syria", telling Parliament: "Our thoughts should be with her family and her friends."

Ed Miliband described her as "an inspiration to women in her profession" while William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, said he was "deeply saddened and shocked by the tragic news" and said Colvin was "utterly dedicated to her work, admired by all of us who encountered her, and respected and revered by her peers".

He added that "her tragic death is a terrible reminder of the risks that journalists take to report the truth".

Peter Bouckaert, the emergencies director of Human Rights Watch, said: “Just yesterday, after she filed her news story, one of the first things Marie Colvin did was get in touch to tell me just how horrible the situation was in Homs. It was vintage Marie Colvin--I could just imagine her happily chatting away with me as the shells fell around her building, and being totally in her element. She was one of the most fearless and dedicated... reporters I have ever met, and someone I looked up to as a hero and an inspiration.

“For Marie, covering war wasn't about doing a few quick interviews and writing up a quick story: she experienced war alongside those who suffered in war, and her writings had a particular vividness because of what she had dared to see and experience.”

In 2010, Colvin spoke about the dangers of reporting on war zones at a Fleet Street ceremony honouring fallen journalists, at which she was introduced to the Duchess of Cornwall.

She said "Craters. Burned houses. Mutilated bodies. Women weeping for children and husbands. Men for their wives, mothers, children.

"Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice.

"We always have to ask ourselves whether the level of risk is worth the story. What is bravery, and what is bravado?

"Journalists covering combat shoulder great responsibilities and face difficult choices. Sometimes they pay the ultimate price."

On Tuesday night Colvin, who was in her fifties, also appeared on Channel 4 and ITV news bulletins, reporting on the bombardment of the opposition stronghold.

Ochlik was born in France in 1983 and first covered conflict in Haiti at the age of 20. Most recently he photographed the revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.

Earlier this month, he won first prize in the general news stories category of the World Press Photo contest for images taken during the Libyan conflict.

Omar Shaker, an opposition activist, told the Reuters news agency that Colvin and Ochlik were killed in the Baba Amr district of Homs.

He said that as well as Mr Conroy being injured, a female American journalist was in a very serious condition.

"Up to this point we have two dead. They are still under the rubble because the shelling hasn't stopped. No one can get close to the house.

"There is another American female journalist who is in a really serious condition, she really needs urgent care."

Pro-opposition areas of Homs have been under a sustained bombardment from government forces since February 3, leaving several hundred people dead.

Colvin, who was married three times, won the British press award for Best Foreign Correspondent on two occasions, as well as awards from the International Women's Media Foundation.

The journalist from Oyster Bay, New York, specialised in the Arab and Persian world but also worked in Chechnya, Kosovo, Sierra Leone and Sri Lanka.

Last week New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid died of an asthma attack while trying to reach an opposition zone.

French television reporter Gilles Jacquier was killed in Homs last month as a shell exploded amid a group of journalists covering protests in the city on a visit organised by the Syrian authorities.

Scott Bass - Pakour Photography

whilst looking at lighting ideas for my work i came across the work of Scott Bass and felt his work inspires me;

http://www.ampisound.com

Teen photographer risks his life for amazing photos in Russia - AOL Travel UK

On a high: the photographer risking his life for amazing photos in Russia

• By Ruth Doherty, Sep 13, 2011

(For AOL Travel UK)

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A teenager has been risking his life by scaling sky-high buildings to capture awe-inspiring photographs of the world below.

Russian student Marat Dupro, 19, has been risking his neck since he bought a Canon camera 18 months ago.

He kicked off by climbing on top of his own roof to take snaps, before moving on to heart-stopping heights on the edge of buildings and on top of pylons.

And the scariest bit? He doesn't even wear a safety harness.

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According to the Daily Mail, he said: 'When I am on the roof I have a feeling that the whole world is by my feet.

'All my problems and trouble are left somewhere down below. The height exhilarates me.

'I wanted to try and get the most spectacular pictures I could - pictures like no one else had taken before.

'I began by taking pictures from my own roof, but soon I wanted to get bigger and better pictures.

'So I went with my friend to the top of a 33-storey building. It was about 120 metres high and we went right out to the edge and I started taking pictures.

'It was such a thrill, we couldn't wait to do it again.

'I've taken a lot of the photos by sneaking past guards and getting access to structures illegally.

'But I think the risks are worth it to take such amazing pictures.'

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Marat doesn't go it alone, and is joined on his hair-raising photographic pursuits by a group of his friends, some of whom scaled one of Russia's seven Soviet skyscrapers together.

They've even been to the top of the Moscow Tower, one of the highest buildings in Europe.

Marat added: 'The building is 300 metres up in the air and it was really difficult to take photos because of the wind. I had to bend right over and just take a picture straight down.

'That was the most dangerous photo I have taken, it was pretty scary.'

Even though the pics are incredible, definitely don't try this at home...

Dennis Welsh Photography

Dennis Welsh has been taking photos for a while now. Born in Philadelphia, he got a Kodak Instamatic at the age of ten and has been shooting ever since.
Since moving to Maine in 1987, Welsh has incorporated the sensibilities of New England into his work, providing a clean, honest style to his photography. Whether shooting an environmental portrait, a skier making first tracks or kids playing in the backyard—Welsh's work consistently conveys a moment that is truly genuine.