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A competetive kickin'

~Scott2206 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:36:46 PST

A few months back I started going along to the Warrington Photographic Society weekly meetings. WPS hold a monthly contest so I thought I would try my luck in their 2nd competition of the season. I entered 3 photo's which were judged by Tony Pioli and below are the original photographs his comments and a revamp version of the photograph... more after the jump

Turning Photo Geek

~Scott2206 — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:51:02 PDT

Last night I took a very brave step for me... As you might have noticed my photography over the last few months since the move up North back to Warrington has been pretty non existent. So last week I had a flash back. In my last job I got talking to one of the old boy's I knew from one of our other offices, he was taking the photo's for a conference we were running. We got talking camera's and photography and he advised me to join a photo club.

As I said my photography has taken a slide for the worse so I wanted to ad some drive back in. I've been on flickr and there does not seem to be any Warrington groups on there that interest me and no local "photowalk" clubs either. I had this flashback and did a Google search and found The Warrington Photo Society which meets just round the corner from my home and the season was due to start again last night, 8th September. So I figured it would be rude not to check it out and see what they were up to...

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Help wanted

~Scott2206 — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:41:16 PDT

Help wanted post

I have Âa cunning planÂÂ Last weekend I went for snowboarding lessons and my friend has told me about the Snowball Rally 2009 43 slopes in England over 3 days. To enter the rally team members are required to raise a minimum of Â£250 each. I hope to improve my skills on the snow so that IÂm ÂgoodÂ enough to take part in a team with my mateÂs boarding crew.

My plan to raise my Â£250 minimum is to run a photo fund raiser. IÂd like to set up shop somewhere and charge for Â£1 portraitsÂ Well Â£1 per person and they get a group and individual portrait. By doing this I hope to be able to easily raise the money if not more which will help take inner city at risk of offending young people on Snowboard camps as a diversion activity from the drugs and crime around them.

I was hoping to hear from people that have ran similar photo projects that can give me some pointers. Maybe yours went really well and want to encourage me or put me off because you burst a blood vessel when attempting it or maybe you havenÂt done anything like this but would still like to give me some information, pointers, links to blog articles etc. Either way it would be great to hear your views.

The way I see this is that itÂs a win for everyone, people that would not usually have family, team or individual portraits will get several photographs for Â£1 available for them to download from scottellison.net. I will raise, hopefully, the Â£250 minimum entry fee to the rally, get invaluable practice and experience of portrait work and get some more photographs for my site. But the most important thing would be the young people get to access a sport that will offer them amazing opportunities and in effect potential save lives.

I canÂt wait to take part in this Rally. But most of all I canÂt wait to take lots of photoÂs and raise money for young people to GET INVOLVED in something amazing!

New Site

~Scott2206 — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:35:56 PDT

Hello!!!

I have just finished putting together my new... well first web site. Check it out and let me know what you think. There might be a problem on explorer but looks ok on safari.

scottellison.net

Cittaviveka

~Scott2206 — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:32:28 PDT

Silence is a very hard thing to find in the heart of a city. I had just come to the realisation that although I was with with 3 friends who I would consider to be some of the loudest out going people I have known that I had not heard a sound for at least 30 minuets. I thought back to how we had come accross this peace and tranquility just a short drive from the heart of Portsmouth.

Sat sipping tea in a local cafe sheltering from the good old British weather we nursed our hangovers from the night before knowing that as usual we would watch the day pass without taking advantage of the free time. We had planned a week of adventure, but the good old British weather had other idea's. Rain had put us of a trip to the valley's of Wales, there was no surf forcast and the ground was frozen sold from the recent snow. what to do?

New Canon 50mm 1.8 mkII

~Scott2206 — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:41:55 PST

Whoop whoop. just parted my bank account of Â£90 for the new Canon 50mm 1.8 mk2

Can't wait to use it in Newquay this weekend. I was going to hire a 100-400mm canon L glass to take some surf shots but thought for the price of hireing that for the week I could buy this little amazing lens for me to keep and have money for beer ... yey I look fwd to putting some photo's up.

laters guys.

Fast 50

~Scott2206 — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:52:00 PST

Does anyone know where I can get a cheap fast 50mm lens for canon eos400?

The cheapest I have found is the canon f1.8 mk2 for around Â£60-80 BUT... I listen to the TWIP (This Week in Photography) pod cast and they say it is easy to get one for around $60 which is about Â£30... so why can't I find one?

Has anybody had any experience of the canon 1.8mk2? is it worth me getting one? I don't expect miracles for the price I just want a good depth of field, read a few reviews but I never trust reviews really.

Any help would be great. Thanks deviants.

Scott.

Flickr

~Scott2206 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:57:24 PST

Hell.

cheeky request for anyone with a flickr account. Could you please fav these photo's for me? I am in a competition on flickr and the way they are going to do the tiebreaker if both teams get all four photo's is to count the number of favs on the photo's, so you'd be doing me a great favour if you could. you can delete them after friday if you don't really like them

thanks

Scott

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Great photo

~Scott2206 — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:39:00 PST

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F e a t u r e

~Scott2206 — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:39:37 PDT

The first 10 deviants who post in this journal will be featured. I will go through your gallery and choose 3 of your deviations I like the most and post them in my journal for everyone to see! It's pretty much to show you off. Who doesn't want that?
( remember, you have to do it first to be featured) I got featured in journal and so need to do the same...

1. ~sandreew

2. *itsamiracle

3. *woodfaery

4. :devfoofoothefreak's: :iconfoofoothefreak's:

5. ~Absolut-Madness

Light project

~Scott2206 — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:10:16 PDT

Hello...

I have only a few weeks left on my project for college. I have to produce 4 images using 3 different sources of light around a single theme... and thats the problem... the theme.

I want to take portraits as I've not done this as yet. I was looking through my Portrait collection of deviant photos and noticed that they were mostly of a chilled out, contemplation nature. And thought I would take photo's of people taking a moment for themselves.

Either that or... take some surf culture photo's. I could possibly look at mixing the two.

How do you chill out, take a moment? would be great to gather some ideas of you falks.

Cheers

Alfie

~Scott2206 — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:19:37 PDT

Please help with my housemates Birthday Pressie

Hey deviants,

Just wanted to point you towards my new submission, alfie [link]

It's a birthday pressie for my housemate who is going through a bit of a shit patch at the moment so I really really wanna get it perfect for her and print it onto a nice big canvas for her.

Please please please could you have a look at it and make some comments as to how I could go aout improving it. I know there are elements of it tha I don't like at the moment but not sure how to go about changing them. This is also my first HDR so any advice on how I could do better on that side of things would be great too. I scaled this down to an 800px image so it was quick and easy to put up on dA but the original HRD was 54M

Hope some of you nice people here on dA can help mee out, thanking you all in advance XxxX

Scott

ahhhrrrrrrrgggggg!!!!

~Scott2206 — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:41:21 PST

Printing!!! Makes the rage build. I have a printer that cost me Â£130 and there are lines all over my prints, the colour isn't great and it want print borderless!!! I've cleaned and aligned the print heads with not alot of difference. Can anyone help Oh and to make matters worse I have no money and my colour cartridge has just ran out

Roar!!!

The game

~Scott2206 — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:39:42 PST

passes the time, bit of fun, and hopefully will let me find some new pics... here goes...

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A game that is in the journal of a lot of friends o' mine

RULES:
1) Answer the questions below;
2) Take each answer and type it into dA search box;
3) Take a deviation from the first page of results (may use ' popular' or 'newest' ) and post thumb (for subscribers) or link (non-subscribers);
4) You can't copy the persons answers who posted this before you.

1. The age you will be on your next birthday: 25

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2. A place you'd like to travel: Bali
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3. Your favorite place: Beach
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4. Your favorite object: ipod
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5. Favorite food: Pizza
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6. Your favorite animal: Dog
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7. Your favorite color: red
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8. The town/state/etc in which you live: Portsmouth (England)
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9. Name of past pet: toby
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10. A dream come true: travelling
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11. Your nickname/screenname: scotty
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12. Middle name: Paul
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13. Favorite Smell: rapeseed
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14. Bad habit of yours: swearing
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15. Your first job: lifeguard
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16. Favourite Movie: godfarther
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17. What are you doing right now? in bed
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18. Whats The Weather Like? dry
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19. Favourite Sport: Surfing
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20. Favourite Music/Style/Band: music (any i love it all - well... most)
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new camera

~Scott2206 — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:18:53 PDT

Yey, I have got me my first "real" camera, I have never really had my own camera but today I bought an EOS 400D now I just need to figure out how to use it.

I am going to night school and in my 3rd term of Arabic and am gonna take a digital photography for begginners class too, if I like the 10 weeks and the teacher thinks I should I might do A level Photography in september.

I dont want to be some amazing photographer but I really want to take good photo's for memories and photos that make me happy, and I want a release from the political world of the Youth Justice System I work in and as I cant afford the petrol to surf I will go out and take pics.