The Aperture Amateur

An amateur photographer based around Brighton

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Camp Bestival 2018

The annual festival of Camp Bestival came around again this year and it was my first time hearing about it after Dodie had announced she was performing. My family and I hired a Camper van and experienced 2 days of an awesome family festival. Sadly the last day with Simple Minds has to be canceled due to the weather and my camera died halfway through the incredible Declan McKennas show. Had an amazing time regardless and I’m incredibly proud of the photos that came out. Also Rick Astley and Mary Berry was quite possibly the best thing that could have ever happened. 

Dodie <3

Dick (From Dick and Dom)

Ian Baker (From Jesus Jones) 

Dodie <3 (again) 

Ginger Johnson 

Mr Tumble 

Rick Astley

Rae Morris

Declan Mckenna 

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Walking and Walking

You know the drill, off to Brighton with a friend and no plan. She had a film camera with her and to experiment I decided to use the red tinted lens camp to see what would happen. (All unedited)

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Together For Chester

Today, I went to Brighton specifically to go to a Linkin Park fan meet and great to celebrate Chesters life and everyone was so nice and so genuine It honestly made me realize there are more people outside of school friendship groups and that there will always be someone out there you can get along with and have a great time. I only saw them for about 2 hours but they actually felt like family. its crazy. Thank you guys for an awesome day if you happen to be reading and I hope to see any/all of you sometime soon. All pictures are unedited and taken with the Nikon D60.

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Latitude Festival 2018

It was that time of year again, the incredible annual Latitude festival came around again this year and it was better than ever. This time I also brought the Nikon to take some pictures, unfortunately It almost ran out of charge on the Thursday when I went around the arena to get some pictures with the smaller crowds, however, with the charge left I was able to get some decent pictures of some of the acts. If you’re interested in the acts that played, I posted most of the videos on my instagram:@__that_blonde_kid__ so check that out. All pictures are unedited and all but the LUMP picture were taken on the D60, LUMP was taken with the Samsung. 

Harry Hill

The Comedy MC

Wolf Alice

Rag n’ Bone Man

LUMP

The Killers

Alt-J

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The Heatwave

About 2 weeks ago, yep sorry I haven't been posting, Jack and I decided to go to Brighton because of the insane heat in the UK. We went to the Whistle-blower Gallery, went to the Paddle Around the Pier Event and then went swimming in the cold English Channel to cool off. All photos are unedited and taken with the Nikon D60.

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Spontaneous Southampton/Worthing

I was bored so I decided to go meet my friend Molly down in Southampton, I only spent an hour and half there before I had to go back to Worthing. I didn’t take too many pictures because I was too focused on having a good time but here are the best ones. (all pictures are unedited)

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London: Sherlock, Bridges and Buildings

Its been a while since the last post as I’ve been focusing on some cinematography test work instead of using the Nikon camera. I’ll be probably be uploading some cinematography video based content in the future. Anyway, yesterday I decided to go up to London to have some time to myself and chill out. I ended up going to Speedy’s Restaurant from BBC’s Sherlock, went to St Paul's then ended with getting a boat to Canary Wharf. In the future, I’m going to try and go back up there, return to Canary Wharf and some other locations for some Photoshoots with some friends.(All shoots are unedited)

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SlamDunk Festival 2018 South

The annual event of Slam Dunk festival came around this year with its new site in Hatfield park and as Sleeping With Sirens and few other incredible bands were turning up I had to go. The journey there and back was nothing short of a nightmare but the event itself was incredible, would totally recommend it to thoughs who are into pop punk and heavy rock music aswell as crazy mosh pits. I even got to meet Sleeping with Sirens so that’s awesome. Some pictures are taken with the Nikon D60 and some are with my Samsung Galaxy S6.

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God Save The Queen

Being forced to go to London to see family, to stop the inevitable Boredom I had to bring the camera. The lighting was good, Sat right by the river and took some pictures I’m quite happy with. They look like they’re straight out of an advert for made and Chelsea. Unfortunately, no Joe in this one, haha

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Worthing, Cars and Sunshine Oh My: Part 2

So after we got back from Worthing, I decided to go to Joes and chill with him, Thought we might, explore the woods, watch some movies or something like that but I literally spent the whole day watching him do his car. Bit boring but it gave me some time to get some pretty decent pictures. Later, after dark, we decided to get mess about with our friend Charlie too so that was fun, Expect some stupid pictures too from this blog post. haha.

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Worthing, Cars and Sunshine Oh My

So, yet again, the boys wanted to go to the gym so I had to tag along. I got bored quite quickly cus I wasn’t working out, I was kinda just there to spot them and what not. So me being me I just left with the camera, went to Maccy Dees and took some pics. Then once they were done I met up with Joe, explored around town and went back to his house.

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Gnarly Men

So the guys wanted to go to the gym, as they always do, and I thought I’d tag along just to get out the house. Brought the camera, as i thought maybe it would be worth getting some shots for the guys’ fitness accounts. Turns out shooting in the gym was such a pain as I had to make sure the shutter speed was high because of the constant movement but turning up that meant turning up the ISO which made the images look grainy and I didn’t really like that. Also some of the images are deliberately under-exposed to put across the image of the underground nature of the gym.

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Avengers: Infinity War

Our school had an inset day and it turned out that it happened to be the same day Infinity War was out in cinemas. So we took this opportunity to again, go to Brighton and I thought I may as well bring the camera.

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Too Hot For Winter

Jesus man, this was a shock, we went from the coldest day to the hottest day in like a month. We had to make the most of this so Joe, Jack and I decided to do exactly that. I spent most of this day getting decent pictures for my friends Instagrams but I ended up with so many good pictures generally. All I can say is thank god for the lighting 

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Spoopy Day

My friend Joe and I planned to go out to Brighton for a day out and I noticed how foggy and silent hill looking it was outside. So, I had to bring the camera out. The lighting was incredibly bright so I got to play around with the shutter speed quite alot. Here are the photos from that weird day.

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Post Jessops Academy

The day after the Jessops Academy Course I decided to go out to Brighton to try out the things I had learn’t the day prior. I mainly used this day to experiment with aperture and Shutter speeds. Luckily the lighting was perfect especially considering this shoot was in the middle of winter.

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First Shoot:

Before doing the Jessops level 2 course in photography to learn the technicalities of the subject. I decided to go on a photo shoot with my friend Joe. Here are the best pictures from that day: