The End of 2010

The end of another year is passing by this year has gone rather quick, there have been a lot of ups and downs this year and i hope 2011 will be a better year this year has been bad year for me apart from a few bits, 3rd january Leeds beat manchester united 1-0 in fa cup and 8th may 2010 promotion to the championship forever in my memory as a leeds fan.I withdrew from my university course because it got abit too much to handle but i returned in september and things are steady hopefully the new year will give a burst of life and i will get on with it and pass the second year and get onto final year.
I even hope that i will get onto the volunteering trip to New York, USA, i really hope so ive been wanting to go there all my life. This year the good things have been hard to find.

2011 im gonna get through my 2nd year at uni and not care what people think of me and hopefully ill get my trip to new york :) and have a bit of luck in my life.

So i leave this final blog post of 2010 with some photos i have taken this year with the snow and summer shots, gigs etc.

Snowy Headingley Campus 05/01/2010

Snowy Headingley Campus 05/01/2010

Waterloo Lake Roundhay Park

Duckling Otley May 2010

Waterloo Roundhay April 2010

North Bay Scarborough May 2010

Sunset Near work November 2010

Madness o2 Academy 05/12/10

Pixie Lott 16/12/2010

Pixie Lott

I went to the pixie lott gig last night and thought she was absolutley stunning, was well worth the money to see such a talented young woman, shes just amazing.

Pixie Lott

Pixie Lott

Pixie Lott

Pixie Lott

Madness and Uni Modules update log

The snow and ice has all disappeared but has been forecast to return for xmas, i have finished university for xmas now but still have a mountain of work to complete for deadlines in january.
The IMD/ Visual Communications deadline i am well on track to meet with good marks the website is coming along nicely i am about to get my galleries slideshow running after a few problems with actionscript.
Well for the vis comms module creating the Portfolio of promotional material i am creating a brochure in InDesign that shows a range of my photos for sale on canvas etc with all relevant information, as well as buisness card designs and a range of other stationary products, also to make a good possible 50% mark i am gonna design some t shirts aswell and maybe cups/mugs.

Anyways i went to see Madness in Leeds last sunday, below are some shots of the gig, see my flickr page for more photos.

 Madness..

22 Days till xmas

Its 22 days till xmas the snow is still here, i have a few more photos to upload, i have also updated my flickr with some more wintery photos and will do the same for the facebook page although i do want to get rid of that page and restart it over.Im nearly saved up for my DSLR now so cant wait till january to finally get it and get some good photographs.I am off to the madness gig at Leeds o2 academy on sunday 5th December so i will be definatley getting some photos at that and then the pixie lott gig on 16th december, i cant wait i hope none of them are cancelled.
Below are a few more snowy snaps taken on my phone.

From my bedroom window icicles

Snow

November Update

The Snow has returned to Yorkshire and has started to cause mayhem once more, winter come early and more to come aswell. Im going to be heading to Roundhay Park to take a few photos in the snow hopefully i will get some good shots, im posting a few ive taken on my camera phone which is 5mp so its quite good shot quality.

Just thought these two photos pretty cool with the sun in sky shining through clouds just captured a good moment. The image below was taken on Saturday 27/11/2010 from near work of the sunset just before 4pm.

Snowy Sunset

I also joined flickr to upload all my photography work for people to see its quite a good website to get your work out there and comments on the shots i have got up on my page so far still alot to update that page with.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertdickinson1987/ i will keep updating the flickr and keep updates posted on this blog.Updates on my portfolio interactive for university project will also have updates in next blog.

Interactive Online Product

My Interactive Media design and Visual communications modules require me to create a Interactive online product, i decided to make a photography portfolio website.
I had my Working Wireframe assesment on Monday 15 november and i thought i could have done better as some of my pages didnt link up and i accidently deleted some actionscript on a frame of the timeline that made it work, oops, now i learned i can work on it and get it to working to full content by the final deadline.


Homepage of my portfolio product logo top left image in middle and then a link to enter site below.



Hopefully i have recieved a good grade at least for these modules as i feel these two are best things i am good at and can really work hard to get the best results.

Back at Uni so far so good.

I thought id add a blog since i havent posted since before i returned to uni back in september so i thought id make a post with some of my work in progress on some of my modules and include what i have to create.

Animation Concepts and Video Post Production.

The assignment brief is to create a virual news room and include both 3D virual elements and real world stuff using Final cut pro to composite it all together.
I have been given a 3d animated character that will make a weather report in the 30 second video this has to be 11 seconds long and i will include some storyboards and some of the script for it in another blog post.
So the 3d elements i have to create a complete virtual news room and a logo, so chairs and tables and whatever else is to be included in the scenes when i am modelling the sooner i finish the modelling the quicker i can animate the scenes.

Interactive Media Design and Visual Communications.

For this assignment i have to create a interactive online product in Adobe Flash with animated screens and stuff on anything i wish. i am using this assignment to create myself a online photography portfolio site. In the tutorials we have been learning the basics of flash getting use to the interface and design of the software completing a few tasks.

The Visual Communications part of the brief is to create the Design portfolio of the site so all the logos flyers and other branding ideas to fit in the brief of the online interactive site.

Below is the video of the bouncing ball animation that i completed today in class.

Back to University

Its that time of the year again that i am returning to university after the break when i wihdrew from my previous course back in February and im returning to Study (Bsc) Multimedia Technology and i am determined to make a go of it this time and work very hard.
I want to be successful in the future and gaining a good degree will start me off i worked hard to get this far and i dont intend on throwing it all away.

At the end of my first year i felt i had learned alot and met some good people from my previous course i originally started university on and was pleased to get through the first year with some good marks.

However the second year got a little bit complicated and i felt that at that time i was on the wrong course doing the wrong things, i tried to continue and do my best in the modules in first semester but still it didnt feel that i was suited to that course, so i took up the decision to withdraw from my course with the intention of a return in september 2010 transferred to Multimedia and ready to roll.

When i return to enrol i will also be dropping down to the freshers fair on friday and have a look at joining a society or two especially gaining membership of the Photography society and going on the field trips as photography is the main field i am intersted in a career in when i have graduated and the experience and meeting new people in the society will give me fresh ideas and help build portfolio aswell.

I am looking forward to returning and meeting new classmates.

The summer 2010

I havent updated my blog in a while as ive been preparing for my return to uni in a couple of weeks and working to save money for a DSLR hopefully i will be able to purchase one as soon as possible.

Im looking forward to returning to university and to study multimedia, i have also joined the Leeds met photography society which will help me meet new people with the same interests aswell as building my portfolio as they do field trips every month to different places so that would be good to get out and enjoy what i love doing best.. taking photos.

Last sunday i also went to Filey(East Yorkshire) and took a few photos of the area, couldnt go for a walk on the brigg though because the tide came in too early.

Anyhow i am gonna be updating my blog more often now i will return to uni on my progress on modules and thoughts.

Anyhow below are some shots from filey.

Filey Church
Filey Church

Filey Seafront Facing Filey Brigg
Sunset Near my grans

National Media Museum Photos

I went to the Media museum and got some photos of the old equipment used in tv and film, i liked the exhibition aswell as i got some inspiration of photos i can take for the competition which ends september 1st.
Anyways Party in the park is near =] below are pics from the museum

Drawings and Stuff

Ive recently done some more drawing just some cartooning and random doodles and character designs for some digital illustrations ive made in photoshop.
Below are a few of the doodles ive done and will upload more in my next blog.

Im going to the National Media museum in bradford on tuesday for my research into photography and will be taking a sketchbook to do some sketches of the old photography equipment and stuff.

Ive also been looking throughout my numerous advanced photoshop mags and ive decided im gonna have a go at few tutorials and upload my results.




Thats all for now.

Research into Photography

Recently a university tutor gave me an idea of doing a blog researching a photographer that has inspired me with my work. So i am researching a couple of landscape and nature photographers and will be visiting the National Media Museum of Film, Photography and Television in Bradford next tuesday(20/07/2010) to have a good insight into some works.

Also i am entering a We English-Our Yorkshire Photography Competition run by the museum and Photographer Simon Roberts who focuses on capturing Yorkshire Leisure time and its pretty much what i look forward to entering and gives an opportunity to get my work out there and viewed by the Public.

Ive got an idea to travel to Yorkshire sculture park and get some photos taken of the art work on show there.

I also went to Thorpe Park theme park on monday which i enjoyed very much was a great thrillseeking day =].

Also spain won the world cup on sunday and ive had some ideas for a poster referring to that win. I have also found some old drawings of a cartoon i was gonna create in flash at college and may end up starting that after all.

That is all for now.

Wedding Photography

I completed my first wedding photo shoot on the 12th June 2010 and felt it went better than I wanted it to and cant wait to complete more jobs in future.I have been called upon to do some portrait photography in future so building my portfolio is going well, I will be looking forward to that.Apart from Red eye which is a common problem in some photography it is nothing that cant be sorted easily in Photoshop.I am very happy with the photos ive got and completed, some i deleted because of blurred view but overall i am pleased.


Below are a few of the photos at the wedding I did.

Return to Blogging

I have returned to blogging as I haven’t posted in a while so i thought id include what i have been up to recently, i have visited both Otley which is just outside Leeds and also i went to Scarborough, North Yorkshire i am a regular visitor to the north Yorkshire town. I have also completed my first wedding photo shoot for my cousin in which he asked me to provide my photography services so i will make a separate blog post on that with a few photos after the editing stage is complete. For now here below are a few selected photos from Otley and Scarborough.

Scarborough Castle View from North Bay.
Duck in Otley

River Wharfe, Otley, West Yorkshire
Otley Church, Otley, West Yorkshire.

Back to Basics

I havent posted on here for a while so i thought an update was needed.
In the past month i have been a little busy with work and other stuff to get out and about and get some photography shots done.
I did visit Roundhay Park last week and got some fantastic photos of the wildlife and the views around the park on a nice sunny thursday afternoon.
I also have renewed my subscription for advanced photoshop magazine in which i can continue doing some design work in preperation for my return to university in september.