I made the mistake of purchasing a domain name without registering to the website itself so I had no e-mail confirmation of my domain name or anything... so now I have registered and I have ordered a domain transferal so I hope that it works orelse I'll have to get into contact with them.

Today I am going to try and get some more portrait shots but this time of my baby brother. Hopefully I'll be able to arrange to take some landscape shots at some point and when I go to Birmingham for Gamefest I'll see if I get some opportunities there to take photos as well! 

These are my portrait shots that I took of Luke. I am fairly happy with how they have turned out; I do plan on turning these 11 images into a final 4/5 but these are the ones which I have edited and could potentially be my final ones. In my final selection I will make sure I don't have more than 2 in the same location (e.g. the train track|). 

Last night I spent a considerable amount of time watching youtube videos on Photoshop tutorials and one I came across was Gavin Hoey's. There are several different techniques which I am going to experiment with just to see how they turn out:

• Little Planet
• Rain
• Fog and Mist

I probably won't use them again in the future however I still feel it'll be beneficial to me to watch tutorials as to improve my skills with Photoshop. :) 

These are the final photos from my portrait shoot, I'll try to narrow my final few down again so I have 4 or 5 rather than 7 but overall I am pleased with how they have turned out. 

This is one of my portraits taken from today. I like the contrast between my model's dark clothing and make-up to the natural green background. I shot these on ISO 800 so they're not crisp clean images however I think it works quite well. I have another 15 photos to decide between and when I have my final 4/5 I will make another post with all of them in! Tomorrow I am going to go through my portraits of Luke and begin to edit those and possibly go through my sunset ones from Liverpool. 

Today if the weather keeps up, I'll be going out with my friend Hayley to be doing some gothic inspired portraits. If the weather decides to give up then I'll be spending the day inside sorting out my previous portraits from Thursday.

This is a photograph which I took yesterday whilst doing my portraits of my friend Luke. This was on the way back from Ferry Meadows and I thought it'd be a nice opportunity to take a photograph of it. I know if you use HDR photography a lot it can become very repetitive and get boring but for this one I saw it as a one off chance.