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Alice in Randomland [iPhone Fashion Photography]

Rob Allen — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:35:34 +0000

I’m doing an illustration for a 150th anniversary edition of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” As luck would have a a local model had an Alice costume so I thought I’d kill two birds with stone and do an Alice photo shoot and also get some reference shots for the illustration.

I’ll post the Alice series when I have time to edit the photos. In the meantime I grabbed some iPhone shots using the Hipstamatic App before the shoot ended. I used the random settings, which means shaking the iPhone after every shot (sometimes people stare when I do that)

Hai Noon

Rob Allen — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:55:35 +0000

I’ve just entered my first design to Threadless.com. It’s for the “East Meets West” contest.

If you like the design please vote for me, it’s easy to login to Threadless with your Facebook account so you don’t have to sign up.

Wish me luck

Welcome to Jazz Club

Rob Allen — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:43:43 +0000

I headed up into the hills of North Wales to watch some Jazz and see some great musicians. I got to do a little bit of drumming as well.

I decided to take my Canon 60D and was able to grab a few shots in between playing.

The colour images didn’t seem right, so I decided to convert them to black and white using Adobe Camera RAW. I also added some textured layers in Photoshop to give the images a vintage feel.

Stan

Alan

Andrew

Chris

Suzy

Terry

The Duke of Lancaster

Rob Allen — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 19:43:05 +0000

After returning to UK for a visit I want to photograph things that I would never see in Asia. So I decided to pay a visit to The Duke of Lancaster a former passenger ferry that was converted into a floating leisure and retail complex called The Fun Ship in 1979. Unfortunately due a combination of corruption and ineptitude on the part of local councillors it’ now a decaying hulk of metal.

It’s recently been brightened up by graffiti artist Bungle

I used a Canon 60D with a 18-135 mm lens which had a Hoya circular polarizing filter attached. It was a bright day with a few clouds and the polarizing filter really added some drama to the sky.

Hipstamatic Urban Exploration

Rob Allen — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:37:29 +0000

First some history

“Pool Park House was once owned by Sir Walter Bagot, a prominent Staffordshire barrister, and was rebuilt in in its current incarnation between 1826-1829 as a residence for the second Lord Bagot.

After eventually being sold to the Tate family (of Tate & Lyle), it was acquired by the North Wales Counties Mental Hospital and opened in 1937 to accommodate 87 patients for relief of overcrowding at the much larger and much more visited Denbigh Hospital.

Its official designation was as a psychiatric convalescent home, and eventually closed in 1990. Planning documents were submitted some years ago for conversion into a 60-apartment residential home, but were rejected.”

This was my first Urban Exploration (or Urbex) and it was fun. I wasn’t sure about the terrain and the how safe the building was so I decided to just take my iPhone. I hope to return with my DSLR and take some proper photographs.

Last Day

Rob Allen — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:27:57 +0000

A Hard Days Night

Rob Allen — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:45:04 +0000

Late Afternoon, September 19th Chiang Mai, Thailand. Apart from some slight colour and tone adjustments this was done in camera and not Photoshopped.

Fauxmography

Rob Allen — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:02:53 +0000

My Holga lens finally arrived.

I got tired of using my Holga 120 Pinhole. I occasionally managed to get some good shots but on the whole I wasted a lot of film. So I decided to buy a Holga lens for my DSLR.

With a little help from Photoshop I think I managed to fake the analogue look.

Focus Experiment

Rob Allen — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:54:21 +0000

From yesterdays shoot. I wanted to try something different so I did a few shots deliberately out of focus. I like the effect so I might try more of these.

Halo

Rob Allen — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 06:53:28 +0000

Flash photography is not one of my strengths, so I’ve been working on improving. You can read or watch as many tutorials as you want but there’s no substitute actually for doing it.

I wanted to try experiment back lighting and I hate doing self portraits because even with self timers, remote controls and articulating LCD screens it’s still a pain.

Luckily my friend Linda agreed to be my test subject. I thought this one came out well and I did a minor edit in Photoshop CS6 using the new Field Blur and Colour Lookup filters.

Also I have a deal with Linda that if this photo has 1 million views I will give her $100.