Enjoyed my day in Liverpool overall, but the lighting conditions at first where rather poor due to the heavy cloud cover making everything seem grey and dull.

As soon as the sun started to set it broke though giving us some love reflections and colour over the river.

Soon as darkness fell and the city lights came on the city came to life, use of a tripod was mandatory for doing long exposure shots, even I found carrying a heavy tripod about all day was a pain but a lighter tripod would be moved by how strong the wind was.

My original plan was to have large depth of field images of the city but could not find a high enough viewing point and lighting was very poor, soon as the city lights came on I found it easier to see the images before I even took them.

I tried to create strong composition by trying frame nothing but the building and the sky, but being surround by buildings I found this hard to do.

For the night shots I tried to create depth by using a wide angle lens and a long shutter speed to capture the car lights going down the street, this came out with some great results.

Most of my night shots where 40 second exposures at f/11, ISO 100, a tripod was a key part of the final outcome.

My original plan was to walk around the canals and work my way up to the science museum, after spending a few hours walking down random streets and getting lost a few time I managed to get a few nice images, working my way back into the city centre I grabbed a few shots of the bullring before the heavens opened, I tried to wait it out but darkness had settled in and I was most likely going to be there a long time, I had to call an end to the day.

Second assignment has got me planning a trip into Birmingham city centre to photograph a series of images on cityscapes using various locations and natural lighting. The first place that popped into my head was the Thinktank science museum at millennium point for its wonderful massive windows and interesting design, plus any excuse to go to a science museum I'm there!

http://www.thinktank.ac/

Had a very interesting few weeks on my first assignment at college, even though a lot of the information being taught to us was a very basic understanding of photography and not much I didn't already know, saying that I got to use a dark room for the very first time and process and develop my very own film!

One of are final tasks for this assignment was to produce portraits in the the studio, also a new experience for me as I have never had use of professional lighting equipment before, so after doing a bit of inspirational research, a few lighting plans and a help in hand from my beautiful friend Paige, I finally came out with these beauty's.