Looking at – and seeing – the world
July 18, 2021 Leave a comment
After a cold night, still icy in the shadows.
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Technique: TG-5 at 70mm (equiv); 160 ISO; Lightroom, using the Camera Vivid film simulation; Hart’s Bakery, Temple Meads, Bristol; 8 Nov 2017.
July 17, 2021 4 Comments
The wonderful exterior colour of the King William Ale House, a favourite watering hole of mine in Bristol city centre. An old pub, with good beer and comfortable seating – just the place for quiet afternoons of decadent imbibing and good conversation by those of us in the retired classes.
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Technique: TG-5 at 25mm (equiv); 400 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Vivid profile; rotated anticlockwise; Capture NX2; King William Avenue, Bristol city centre; 1 Oct 2019.
ARCHIVE STILL LIFE
This is a new category on this blog – Archive Still Life studies. The Still Life definition will certainly be followed loosely – e.g. some studies may only have been made “still” by the split second opening of the camera’s shutter – and my objective will be to use as many different types / genres of subject matter as possible. Some images will be Minimalist and, in general, I try to make simpler images, rather than cramming them with visual content.
Some new Still Life studies will (hopefully!) continue to appear.
July 3, 2021 Leave a comment
Strolling down tatty back alleys behind a row of small shops in the blazing summer’s sun, and reveling in the burgeoning and totally uncaring unkemptness of it all. The shops’ fronts might look alright, but back here behind the facades there is only sordid and refuse strewn reality – what you see is very much what you get, and what you get is pure, artless, drab functionality, bereft of all thoughts of beauty or attractive design.
And I found a wall of made of concrete blocks – breeze blocks as we Brits call them – on which some bright young thing had scrawled a long red line. Up behind the wall was a fence of crudely painted and rusting metal panels. And in the foreground, parked up close and personal against the wall, a car, patterned by the bright reflections of its stark backdrop.
And – rather an epiphany I suppose – I realised that, should I linger too long in these scruffy and unkempt surroundings, anyone passing by might think me a very real part of them. So I hastened swiftly on, anxious to give a better – if false – impression elsewhere.
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Technique: TG-5 at 49mm (equiv); 200 ISO; spot metering; Lightroom, starting at the Modern 01 profile; south Bristol; 1 June 2021.
June 25, 2021 4 Comments
This car’s driver? He’s inside, having his hair cut.
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Technique: TG-5 at 100mm (equiv); 320 ISO; spot metering; Lightroom, starting at the Modern 01 profile; flipped; south Bristol; 1 June 2021.
June 11, 2021 Leave a comment
Looking in through the windows of a fish and chip shop during the pandemic, just as the sun was rising.
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Technique: TG-5 at 100mm (equiv); 320 ISO; spot metering; Lightroom, starting at the Modern 01 profile; south Bristol; 1 June 2021.
June 9, 2021 2 Comments
Going to the park very early in the morning: trees, fog, stillness, depth.
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Technique: TG-5 at 100mm (equiv); 1600 ISO; Lightroom, using the Camera Monotone film simulation; south Bristol; 17 Apr 2019.
ARCHIVE STILL LIFE
This is a new category on this blog – Archive Still Life studies. The Still Life definition will certainly be followed loosely – e.g. some studies may only have been made “still” by the split second opening of the camera’s shutter – and my objective will be to use as many different types / genres of subject matter as possible. Some images will be Minimalist and, in general, I try to make simpler images, rather than cramming them with visual content.
Some new Still Life studies will (hopefully!) continue to appear.
June 7, 2021 7 Comments
Looking at a radiator. Its true, I don’t get out much, but here there are repeating lines, structures and reflections; and textures too.
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Technique: TG-5 at 74mm (equiv); 800 ISO; spot metering; Lightroom, starting at the B&W 07 profile; at home; 18 May 2021.
June 5, 2021 8 Comments
Out for lunch, some years ago. And a pint of soda water with ice and slices of lime.
Out for lunch, and lunch taking awhile to appear. Well, it was a Monday, the school holidays are over, and maybe the restaurant hadn’t expected such a tide of (mostly) oldies. Anyway, the TG-5 camera was in my pocket, as it often is, and so to looking around at the things on the table in front of me. When you’re into photography, there’s always something to look at …
But when it eventually appeared, the large mixed grill couldn’t be faulted – a carnivore’s dream, accompanied by tomato, onion rings, mushroom and (an inexhaustible supply of) chips, and probably with more than a whole day’s quota of calories. In fact it was almost more than I could eat; must be getting old …
And, as always, the Olympus TOUGH TG-5 camera was wonderfully compact, and very capable and adaptable. I used spot metering; and also the Microscope Mode, which enables extreme close up shots with illumination from the camera; 1600 ISO; processing in Lightroom.
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ARCHIVE STILL LIFE
This is a new category on this blog – Archive Still Life studies. The Still Life definition will certainly be followed loosely – e.g. some studies may only have been made “still” by the split second opening of the camera’s shutter – and my objective will be to use as many different types / genres of subject matter as possible. Some images will be Minimalist and, in general, I try to make simpler images, rather than cramming them with visual content.
Some new Still Life studies will (hopefully!) continue to appear.
June 5, 2021 2 Comments
Looking into a shop window, at flowers misty behind clouded glass.
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Technique: TG-5 at 100mm (equiv); 200 ISO; spot metering; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Vivid profile; south Bristol; 30 May 2021.
June 3, 2021 2 Comments
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Technique: TG-5 at 85mm (equiv); 3200 ISO; spot metering; Lightroom, starting at the Modern 01 profile; south Bristol; 6 Feb 2021.
