Looking at – and seeing – the world
November 27, 2020 10 Comments
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Something convoluted, something for modern times perhaps.
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Technique: TG-5 at 25mm (equiv); 800 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the Modern 10 profile; south Bristol; 22 Nov 2020.
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November 26, 2020 2 Comments
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Something else in autumn, early on a foggy morning.
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Technique: TG-5 at 57mm (equiv); 1600 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the Modern 04 profile; south Bristol; 6 Nov 2020.
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November 25, 2020 10 Comments
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Carrion Crow over our back garden, not long after dawn; 27 Nov 2011.
I very much like the limited palette of colours but – as is so often the case – I prefer this version to monochrome. The crow – which looks for all the world like a Photoshop insert! – is purposely positioned away from any of the composition’s visual strong points, but with space ahead to fly into. Actually quite a reasonably sized bird, it looks so small here against the vast sky and very solid looking clouds: this is intentional.
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Technique: D700 with 70-300 Nikkor lens at 200mm; 800 ISO.
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November 24, 2020 6 Comments
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Leaning over the wet bonnet of a car I’ll never be able to afford – and, increasingly eschewing materialism as I am – which I’m totally happy not to own. I’m on the left, glorying as I often do in the TG-5’s f2 wide angle lens, the equivalent of 25mm in full-frame format. I’m holding my glasses as well as the camera because I can’t see well through the camera’s screen with them on >>> LOL! getting old! And I’m looking along the slightly curving streaks of water towards the car’s windscreen wipers at far right.
The picture is rotated 90 degrees clockwise. Occidental eyes enter images on the left and move towards the right, so that my eyes move along the water streaks towards to the darker wipers and (hopefully!) stay on them, rather than exiting the image.
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Technique: TG-5 at 25mm (equiv); 1600 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the Modern 01 profile; rotated; south Bristol; 19 July 2020.
The Looking at Cars series: looking back through the nine years of the FATman Photos archives (and some new images too), I’m posting pictures of cars in various contexts and styles. Earlier Looking at Cars posts are here: 1 (with context); 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 . Each post will open in a separate window.
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November 22, 2020 7 Comments
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Roadside grass, rather eerily manicured in between the confluence of two pavements, one of which enters the frame from the left and the other from upper right. Never let it be said that the Outer Suburbs lack style and class …
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Technique: TG-5 at 25mm (equiv); 640 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the Modern 01 profile; south Bristol; 15 Nov 2020.
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November 21, 2020 4 Comments
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There are other images from this early morning here and here . Each will open in a separate window.
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Technique: TG-5 at 100mm (equiv); 1600 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the Modern 04 profile; south Bristol; 6 Nov 2020.
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November 20, 2020 16 Comments
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Autumn on the pavement. Beside the park railings. Caught by the rays of the rising sun.
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Technique: TG-5 at 100mm (equiv); 250 ISO; Lightroom, using the Camera Vivid film simulation; south Bristol; 10 Oct 2018.
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November 20, 2020 9 Comments
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Sunrise over the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, southwest Kenya; Nov 1977.
The low buildings may be at Keekorock Lodge in the southern Mara. Towering above is an Acacia thorn tree.
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Technique: OM-1 with 28mm Zuiko lens; Agfa CT18 colour slide film, rated at 64 ISO.
THE ARCHIVE KENYA SERIES
I’m re-posting photographs that I took in Kenya over 30 years ago. You can find more context here . Click onto the “Archive Kenya” tag (below) to see more of these film images from Kenya.
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November 19, 2020 13 Comments
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A cold morning, and the rising sun starts to burn through the mists over Whitchurch village, on the southern outskirts of Bristol.
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Technique: TG-5 at 100mm (equiv); 320 ISO; Lightroom, using the Camera Vivid film simulation; Whitchurch, south Bristol; 2 Nov 2017.
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November 18, 2020 8 Comments
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Another early morning in the city. I walked up Crow Lane, away from the harbour’s glistening waters, and photographed the clown poster. Then, as I turned squinting into the bright morning light, there was a man, silhouetted, sitting in his car and totally immersed in his phone. If I had to pick a single, important facet of this image, it would be the tiny point of light visible through his otherwise silhouetted glasses: to me, this brings him more alive, rather than being just a blank silhouette.
The Looking at Cars series: looking back through the nine years of the FATman Photos archives (and some new images too), I’m posting pictures of cars in various contexts and styles. Earlier Looking at Cars posts are here: 1 (with context); 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 . Each post will open in a separate window.
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Technique: a telephoto zoom is ideal for this sort of quick, close in, intimate shot – the Fuji 55-200 (a 85-300 35mm equivalent) is often the only lens I carry. And, when out photographing, I make a habit of frequently looking behind me – and especially so if the light is coming from behind me – and of doubling back on myself >>> you never quite know what might be lurking back there! X-T2 with 55-200 Fujinon lens at 300mm (equiv); 400 ISO; spot metering for the highlights; Lightroom.
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