Redeemer Nightclub, Leicester

The photographs below were taken at Redeemer Nightclub in Leicester. I've been working there for almost a year now and below are just a few of what I've done. Nightclub photography isn't my type at all, but I mainly went into it for the experience, with this gaining a huge amount of confidence at the same time. The photo's look like they might be point and shoot, but that's where its different, every club is different. Redeemer in particular is very dark and has a lot of coloured lights as well as smoke machines, for a photographer smoke machines are the worst! There are so many different things you have to be aware of when taking nightclub photo's that you might not usually do taking photo's out in the open. The settings I use is a 1/6 Shutter f.3.5 ISO:100 (with an attached speed light) I found these settings worked best and also the quality of the photo's outside managed to stay the same and didn't become over exposed which was great. Still after all this time I cannot say I've managed to learn the complete technique. 

A day at Kilby Bridge

Today my dad, brother and I went up to Kilby to visit the new train bridge that has recently been built. This was the second time they had been and the first time for myself. Growing up around trains its strange to think that I've never really had much interest in them like my dad, but today I took the time out to spend some time with my family and to see what I could get. I'm quite pleased with the results as I didn't haven't much  confidence to start with but it ended on a good note. I particularly like the first one, the strangest thing about this photograph is that my dad and I captured the same composition without either of us knowing.

Class 66- Kilby Bridge  

Meridean InterCity 125- Kilby Bridge 

Grand union canal- Kilby

Home

Another college assignment in which we had about 7 months to produce was to create a body of work for an exhibition we're holding at Leicester's photographic gallery in February. I'm ashamed to say I didn't carry out my original proposal  and changed my mind 2 weeks before the deadline, which was a bad idea but really i'm glad I did. Anyway the project I decided to carry out was MORE nightscapes on my village, a similar project to my other however, this was a lot more personal. The village I live in is very special to me not only because I grew up here but because of how unique the place is and some of the beautiful features it includes. So this time round I wanted to embrace this through the night.

Below are images that have surrounded me throughout my life. These are not just photographs, this is home.

The Phonebox- Newton Harcourt 

Wistow Road- Newton Harcourt

St Luke's - Newton Harcourt

Spinney car - Newton Harcourt

Long Row - Newton Harcourt 

Nightscapes

Since last year I had decided to make a personal project on a sequence of Nightscapes. I had never experiment with long exposures until we were given a brief at college, after this I continued to produce more for my own work. I loved the outcome's and soon got addicted! As you can see some of my images are stronger than others, this shows my development throughout the year. I will continue to produce more Nightscapes this year, however moving away from the country side and experimenting with urban/derelict buildings.

Wistow, Leicestershire 2012

Wistow, Leicestershire 2012

Rutland water, Rutland/Leicestershire 2012

Newton Harcourt, Leicestershire 2012

Wistow, Leicestershire 2012

Leicester, Leicestershire 2011

Rutland water, Rutland/Leicestershire 2012

Wistow, Leicestershire 2013

Rutland, Rutland/Leicestershire 2012

Kilby, Leicestershire 2013