Just spotted this on the You Tube analysis page.

Have you ever looked into the statistics on You Tube, you can find out all kinds of useful stuff, like who has embedded your video's and how many people have watched it from that source. Through the stats I found that the video I had made for Escape to Adventure had been put on a Blog called Westroke.
http://www.westroke.com/blog/2013/8/14/dynamic-active-blade-kayak-technique/
Well they did give Bomb Blast a good plug, so thank's lads and your getting the video the most viewings. so the next time your on your You Tube Channel have a look at the statistics you never know what you might find.

More B & W HDR images.

Here are some HDR images, This time outside, I love how it nearly gives the photo's a 3D effect and makes what would other wise be a flat image more dramatic. Again these were taken in Manchester at the Town Hall. They were taken on automatic bracketing and put together in Photoshop.

Photo shoot for Esquif sponsored paddler Kelvin Horner

Had a great day yesterday. I went canoeing with some great guys, on a fun little river called the Washburn. But also I was there to take some photo's for Kelvin, who had just become the latest member of Team Esquif, and he was showing off his new canoe, an Esquif L'Edge Lite. He was also showing off his skills, which ain't bad to say he dislocated his shoulder a few weeks ago, in a boating accident. Again I was not blessed with the best of light for the shoot (just seems to be my luck these days). But I still got some decent shots of the day. Here are some that I have not released anywhere else.




http://www.esquif.com/en/index/

https://www.facebook.com/kelvin.horner.9?fref=ts

B & W, HDR. Another old bloke.

This was the second shot that I attempted HDR on. Pity the JPEG does not show the depth of the original 32 bit version. Does any one know if there is a way of displaying 32 bit photo's. Again I did not use a flash.

I wonder what he is reading on his mobile.

B & W, HDR experiment.

First attempt at doing HDR in Black & White, I was quite happy with the results. I was trying this technique as I am really crap at taking photo's with a flash, something I have to learn to do. But using HDR does seem to add a lot of depth to the shot. Rather than looking flat which my photo's tend to do, when I use Flash.

A Dream I had.

When I was young, I had this dream that I witnessed a Lancaster Bomber being shot down over London, for some reason this dream as stuck with me, so I made it the subject of my first piece of photo manipulation art work. Again this is an old piece of work, but I like it, it brings back memories.

New You Tube Channel

There's not a lot on it at the moment, apart from ETA's coaching video which I put on my blog previously. But more material will be added soon so come and subscribe. http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz61RfLiB3QSFNbiuVtPZpg

Video Made for ETA Kayak Coaching

I made this video for Escape To Adventure http://www.escapetoadventure.com/
The video it's self was shot under very testing lighting conditions, so it didn't come out the best. Also it was my first attempt at doing voice overs and I had a lot of trouble with my Zoom h1. Leading me to think that I need a new recorder. But also I made the mistake of putting the recorder on the same desk as my computer, it then picked up vibrations from the fan, therefore for part of the recording I had to use noise reduction in Audition, which worked, but left the voice over sounding different in one part of the video. But it was a good learning experience.

Bomb Blast is Back, but with some old work.

So I've not posted for a while, that's because I have been out of the country doing my other job, for the last two months, but now I am back. I've got no new work, but I thought I would post some old work from my archives, from before Bomb Blast existed. So here's the first. This was a photo taken for Master Charger, to promote their album Unity in Black http://www.oziumrecords.com/Shop/Details/601 

As usual, the light was crap for the day of the shoot and I had the worst hangover, but I think this one photo captures the essence of the band, gritty and down to earth. I cropped out the sky and foreground to give the photo more focus and converted it to black and white, as this is what the band wanted, but it also worked well with the gloominess of the day.