Looking at – and seeing – the world
May 23, 2020 11 Comments
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There are earlier images in this Parked Car series here: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 . Each will open in a separate window.
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Technique: TG-5 at 25mm (equiv); 3200 IS0; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Natural profile; Silver Efex Pro 2, starting at the High Contrast Smooth preset; Capture NX2; south Bristol; 18 May 2020.
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May 11, 2020 11 Comments
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There are earlier images in this Parked Car series here: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 . Each will open in a separate window.
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Technique: TG-5 at 25mm (equiv); 800 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the B&W 04 profile; south Bristol; 16 Jan 2019.
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May 10, 2020 Leave a comment
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The morning rush hour, people coming in to work from the south and passing beneath one of the Bristol’s main railway lines.
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Technique: TG-5 at 40mm (equiv); 800 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Portrait profile; Bedminster, south Bristol; 29 Jan 2019.
Recent Going to Work posts are here: 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 . Each will open in a separate window. (Post 100 contains selected images from the first 99 posts.)
GOING TO WORK: THE EARLIER POSTS: 1-92.
You can see a summary of the Going to Work series here .
Earlier images from this series can be found here: 1, 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, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 . Each will open in a separate window.
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May 6, 2020 10 Comments
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Walking in the lockdown, and – deja vu – finding another car beside another new fence lit by the bright, early morning sun; this one had just been sprinkled by a light rain shower.
The earlier post is here .
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Technique: TG-5 at 100mm (equiv); 1600 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Vivid profile; south Bristol; 1 May 2020.
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May 1, 2020 9 Comments
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Looking at a BMW, not in any envious or possessive way, but rather seeing this confection of glass, metal, plastic and rubber more as a still life, looking at its shapes and lines, seeing how it reflects the light. And so to processing the image, and to two crops. The one above is more conventional, whereas the one below looks at just a part of the upper image and is more Minimalist.
There are earlier images in this Parked Car series 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 Vivid profile; south Bristol; 26 Apr 2020.
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April 29, 2020 2 Comments
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Walking in the lockdown, beside a brick wall beside a car. And although built quite recently – probably with an eye more to economy rather than to quality, it seems – the wall is already stained by the weather and starting to disintegrate, shedding fragments onto the dark pavement below. The sleek, clean lines of the car’s shadow serve only to highlight the down at heel Modernity languishing mutely beside it.
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Technique: TG-5 at 25mm (equiv); 400 ISO; spot metering; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Vivid profile; south Bristol; 5 Apr 2020.
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April 16, 2020 17 Comments
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Park Street, central Bristol; 3 Dec 2013.
The chaos and complexity of a city, perhaps.
I’ve restored the reds and magentas in an understated way, and this has given slight flesh tones to the faces of the two women, which serves to extricate them slightly from the mainly black and white mayhem that surrounds them – in all of this urban stone, metal, plastic and glass artificiality, only they are organic, real and alive.
Looking at this, (urban) chaos and mayhem are what hits me. And especially so now, in the run up to our nation’s Great Buying Frenzy. I used to work down in central Bristol and that inevitably colours my thoughts, but I have to say that Tuesday’s visit to the city centre produced some negative vibes – which is probably why I mostly head out the other way, into the countryside.
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Technique: Canon G11 PowerShot at 99mm (35mm equiv); 800 ISO; Silver Efex Pro’s Full Dynamic Harsh preset, selectively restoring colour.
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April 16, 2020 19 Comments
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Brake lights of two white vans in a traffic queue, seen through a wet bus window in Bristol; 28 May 2013.
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Technique: Canon G11 PowerShot at 140mm (35mm equiv); 200 ISO; rotated 90 degrees clockwise.
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April 11, 2020 5 Comments
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There are earlier images in this Parked Car series here: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 . Each will open in a separate window.
Click onto the “early morning” tag (below) to see more images from the early hours of the day.
Click onto the image to open a larger version in a separate window – recommended.
Technique: TG-5 at 100mm (equiv); 800 ISO; spot metering; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Vivid profile; south Bristol; 5 Apr 2020.
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April 6, 2020 10 Comments
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Walking the locked down suburbs: sunrise, a new fence and a car.
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Technique: TG-5 at 100mm (equiv); 400 ISO; spot metering; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Vivid profile; south Bristol; 31 Mar 2020.
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