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Betty Banzai grunge style poster

Had a photo shoot at Sugar Mill Night Club in Hull. This is from the second shoot of the day. Model feature is Betty Banzai from Model Mayhem. I want to do a grunge type poster similar to this Dirty Grunge Poster and Simple steps to create impressive illustration. Also this list of 450+ grunge brushes helped.

Original image

Background cut and left white

Duplicated layer, then Filter -> Artistic -> Cut Out. Set blend mode to 60% opacity.

New layer render clouds then blur, add radial shape in new layer

Build up layer with grunge brushes and changing layer blending styles, altering graduated blend mode

Continue with other brushes

Show all layers

Then text layer with graduated layer style.

Ganton School Charity Fashion Show and Pamper Night

Attended a Ladies pamper night at Willerby Manor Hotel, East Yorkshire. It was a fund raiser for Ganton School  to raise money for special bikes for the children at the school.

Ganton special school has around 190 pupils aged 3-19 with severe learning difficulties, at Ganton they have been raising money to buy some special cycles. they are along way from the £15,000 needed

The event raised £571. Around 150 people attended. With 30 local business stalls.

Here are a few photos from the night. More can be found on my Facebook Page

Day 181/365 Holmpton HDR

Day 181/365 Holmpton HDR, originally uploaded by Graham Warsap.

Had a ride out to Holmpton, near Withernsea and the East Yorkshire coast.

3 exposures -/+1 at F8.0

Film Noir Shoot At Sugarmill Night Club

Attended a group shoot with Hull photographers and models Facebook group.  We took over Sugarmill night club for the afternoon. All models and photographers shoot for free. An entrance was charged and the money was given to cancer research. £131.80 in total was raised.

Before the shoot I had discussed with Shaz (the model below) shooting a film noir set. She was very enthusiastic and keen to offer suggestions for the shoot.

I had read on the Strobist Blogspot on using hard light for a Film Noir Effect.

A single 430exII was used. I used a cable to trigger the flash, i used this because there was other photographers working around me using similar triggers. Cable is old school but it works.

I used a Rouge flash bender as a snoot. The a reflective umbrella partially opened to give a more concentrated directional light.

Thanks to Lou Watson and Abbie Towse for organising the shoot, Sugarmill for the venue and all the models, makeup artists and fellow photographers for their help and support of a worth while charity.

Day 8,9 and 10.

Day 8 Song I know all the words to:

Twinkle, twinkle little star. As demonstrated by Amelia my grand-daughter. Close contenders where, wind the bobbin up, two little dickie birds, and New York, New York By Frank Sinatra.

Day 9 song I can dance to:

Aerosmith, I dont want to miss a thing.

Played at my wedding for the 1st dance. About month later broke my foot and never danced the same again. Not that I was much cop to start off with.

Day 10 song I can fall asleep to..

Craig Armstrong: Rise. (Theme tune to The Negotiator)

Day 7/30 a song that reminds you of a certain event…

The Paddingtons: Shame about Elle.

Smile for the nice man,

smile for the camera,

smile for the nice man,

wont you do it again

Taken at Hull Freedom concert 2009. The Paddingtons performing to a crowd of 20,000 local fans.

The song reminds me of the very 1st open air concert that I ever photographed. It was also the 1st time I had heard the Paddingtons perform live. They did a fantastic set, which ended in a mic stand thrown in my direction and the guitarist been dragged off stage by other band members