Looking at – and seeing – the world
July 11, 2020 2 Comments
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Beside the harbour; Aberaeron, west Wales; 24 Sept 2014.
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Technique: D700 with 70-300 Nikkor lens at 300mm; 400 ISO.
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July 2, 2020 2 Comments
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There are earlier Modern Housing posts here: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11. Each will open in a separate window.
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Technique: TG-5 at 100mm (equiv); 800 ISO; spot metering; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Portrait profile; south Bristol; 26 Apr 2020.
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June 5, 2020 8 Comments
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Click onto the “early morning” tag (below) to see more images from the early hours of the day.
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Technique: TG-5 at 65mm (equiv); 400 ISO; spot metering; Lightroom, starting at the Modern 01 profile; south Bristol; 1 June 2020.
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June 4, 2020 8 Comments
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Landscape near Newquay, Cornwall; 23 Oct 2012.
The lines of windblown trees first attracted me to this scene, and then there were the partly seen house and the bold, dark lines of the field boundaries.
Letterbox is an ideal format here, and I’ve used a pale vignette to suggest mistiness around the frame edges.
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Technique: D700 with 70-300 Nikkor lens at 300mm; 400 ISO; converted to mono with Silver Efex Pro 2, using the Full Contrast and Structure preset as a starting point.
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May 28, 2020 12 Comments
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Gaily coloured houses and many parked cars in the steep, narrow streets of fashionable, middle class Totterdown.
Other images in the Bristol Street Scenes series are here: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 . Searching on the “street” tag (below here) will also find these posts.
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Technique: TG-5 at 25mm (equiv); 800 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Vivid profile; Totterdown, south Bristol; 21 Jan 2020.
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April 28, 2020 Leave a comment
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Walking in the lockdown.
There are earlier Modern Housing posts here: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 . Each will open in a separate window.
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Technique: TG-5 at 100mm (equiv); 400 ISO; spot metering; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Vivid profile; Silver Efex Pro 2, starting at the Film Noir 3 preset and adding a light Coffee tone; south Bristol; 5 Apr 2020.
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April 20, 2020 14 Comments
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Walking in the lockdown, and seeing shadows on walls, and a house too – half glimpsed – with a small tree in its driveway.
I’m not at all sure about this image. To me it looks rather jumbled, with too much in it perhaps, but then its showing several layers – the wall + shadows in your face in the foreground, the tree + more shadows in the driveway, the decorated wall and larger tree beyond, and the barely seen house of course = ??? a series of overlapping and interlocking spaces or (even) realities??? I don’t know, but in any case I’m posting to see what you think, I’d welcome any views.
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Technique: TG-5 at 32mm (equiv); 800 ISO; spot metering; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Vivid profile; south Bristol; 5 Apr 2020.
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April 18, 2020 16 Comments
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Walking in the lockdown, no one else about, the streets quiet and empty. The rising sun threw the really quite beautiful shadow of a tree onto a house beside a dingy car park, and I stepped into the scene and photographed it.
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Technique: TG-5 at 38mm (equiv); 320 ISO; spot metering; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Portrait profile; south Bristol; 10 Apr 2020.
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April 13, 2020 Leave a comment
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Walking in the early morning, walking in the lockdown. The rising sun inches up behind houses across the road from me and, finding gaps between them, shines through onto the houses, still in shadow, beside me.
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Technique: TG-5 at 80mm (equiv); 320 ISO; spot metering; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Vivid profile; south Bristol; 5 Apr 2020.
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April 10, 2020 12 Comments
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Walking in the lockdown on a beautiful, clear morning. The low angle sunlight was making the end of a block of modern housing glow, and so to a triangle of shadowed wall at lower right, and the sloping roof of the house parallel with the top of the frame. These are the design elements in the image, and just by sheer luck the burglar alarm is more or less at the intersection of the upper and right thirds (see Rule of Thirds, here).
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Technique: TG-5 at 53mm (equiv); 320 ISO; spot metering; tilted camera; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Vivid profile; south Bristol; 5 Apr 2020.
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