Theme 2 pictures :- portraits

This theme is different to the polish wedding photo’s in many respescts, they are all portrait photos’s in style from the uk in general. The purpose of these photos was to capture the moment rather than the feel of the event, they were nearly all taken on the HTC wildfire camera phone which as shown in the description has a slightly better specification of pixilation and a few more functions! the photo's with me in were mainly taken myself by either extending my arm or the odd timed photo created on an actual camera using a timer. but i'll single out the photo not taken by me first:-

As this photo is of me but not taken by me i spent a good deal of time altering the aspects of the photo on a professional photo manipulation programme using a friends computer as it was a one off i didn't recall the programme used but nearly everything in it is changed it some small respect at least in reducing the background noise, contrast, colour, exposure, cropping, retouching tint and even the auto adjust settings i was able to create the effect of a used/worn old style photograph for the outer rim and the other available manipulations to make the photo look washed out, perpetuating the early 70's feel, the reason it was left in was to show how i'm able to manipulate photo's further with access to the correct equipment.   

A lot of the motion blur in specific shots is deliberate to make the photo more interesting i've tried to keep the central focal points (other people!) still, whilst capturing a fast moving image utilising a slower f-stop. This is done so the moment can be experienced more intensely it gives the viewer a further feel for the fast paced moment that those specific moments were taken in.  it is unfortunate that the camera doesn't keep records of the specific iso or f-stop etc.