From on top of John Lewis – (Photos of Newcastle upon Tyne)

Heslop have some I took from the air if you would like them.

It could be there Scott – it’s one of the two 😛 Steve, I think I unfortunly agree, it’s kinda the same now as what it was when I was 1 …

Nice shots Robbie…but it’s still the same old dull, grey lifeless place…i don’t think it’ll ever change!!!

i thought everyone went to leazes park now?
oh well

pics of the pagoda young robbie 🙂

Exhibition park is where people go if there not on the green these days :p lol.

Thanks for all the tips Paul! 🙂

BumbleBee – No, the flag’s just there these days.

ahh, my old hang out…the green (first shot) all us metallers/goths/emos/scene kids used to hang out on that grass etc….back when i was a teenager…rather miss it these days 🙁 kool shots robbie

dont suppose you have been to exhibition park yet have you? the old military museum pagoda building? ull get some cracking shots there

Certainly different, but try and remember that the camera is your very own and very personal way to either express yourself, say something or convey mood; every image you post should tell a story or show us something special about how you saw your subject at the time and how you thought about it.

A few of the shots here show things almost exactly as you’d see them if you were stood at that spot, and while that isn’t necessarily a bad thing, as I said previously you have to capture peoples interest, and as such showing a photo of a scene they can see every day with no particular focus doesn’t necessarily do that. Here are a few more examples of things the vast majority of people walk past and never consider making a photo from:

If you were to just point the camera straight forward down this street the resulting photo would probably be quite dull and uninteresting, but keeping your eye out for slightly different ways you can compose your shot gives a new perspective to a very average and ordinary scene.

Here we have a little wooden bridge over a stream, which in itself is absolutely nothing of any interest but again, seen from a slightly different angle it becomes a part of a scene that’s full of bold colour (again, as I mentioned before, I love colour so much that a lot of the time the actual subject isn’t important as long as the colours are interesting).

A give way sign… Something we see all the time and a very boring, mundane object, but I liked the light and knew the contrast had the potential to be quite interesting if the exposure were knocked down a little. The streetlight balances the composition to the right.

Most people here would just take a straight and level shot of the bus or a straight shot of the building. By thinking a little about possible ways to shoot this a little differently, we have an image where the bus is important compositionally but is almost incidental to the scene and the size and scale of the building is clear. The bus also serves to show where I took the photo! It’s an angle your eye would never usually see, and it’s that fact that makes it an interesting image.

Interesting really is such an important word in photography and just thinking it when you shoot will make your photos more… Well… Interesting! Try thinking about what you actually want to show your audience before you take the shot and try make it focussed. The shot of the John Lewis building doesn’t really show anything; it shows a car park and a building, which are both things we see every day. If you’re going to shoot subjects like that then you need to think how to make it interesting, because it isn’t an interesting enough scene to simply point your camera and press the shutter release. Again, try thinking of how you can shoot it from an angle your eye would never usually see. Try wide angle shots with your camera very close to the ground maybe. Showing everyday scenes from very unordinary angles is a good way to make them interesting. 🙂

Paul

Nice to see the English flag flying,was it a special occasion ?