The frozen and grubby white Ipswich streets coupled with a lack of technical staff at UCS this morning have conspired to force me to generate new work from my previous assignment. Based on viewing rates generated by the computer program I used, I selected the top 18 images from both the Random Enigma and The […]
More test results from Portra 800 and Fuji GW670III
I’ve just had a roll back and scanned it on an an Epson V750 pro. These images taken in bright winter sunlight at either 1/250th to 1/500th second at F27. Other than some spot removal, a small crop here and there and sharpening nothing else has been done. Very intense colours, quite contrasty, just as […]
Analogue versus Digital
I regularly photograph this garage in Ipswich, either on my way to or from University Campus Suffolk. I shoot with whatever camera I have with me, Nikon P6000, Olympus Trip 35, Fuji GW670III, Nikon FE2 etc. Today’s shot was on the P6000, yet I see this garage as an analogue garage. What will happen when […]
Pictures at an Exhibition (2)
We got to hang our latest assignment work at UCS today. I have mentioned this work previously but the pictures hung side by side present the single image of the exhibition as calculated by the computer program I used, and as supplied by Brian Grimwood whose exhibition and help I used to create this body […]
Fuji GW670III
I have been testing a Fuji GW670III for the last few weeks with different films. I have used TriX ISO 400, and Portra 800. The nearest thing I have used camera-wise is an Olympus Trip 35 – only because it is a rangefinder and there the comparison ceases. I have found myself using the Fuji […]
Pictures at an exhibition
The latest assignment called for by UCS was to produce a narrative based on a received email. I had received a thank you email from the renowned graphic artist Brian Grimwood for images I made of his private viewing opening night at the Waterfront Gallery, Ipswich. My mind went into overdrive and I got to […]
40 Years on
Articles in the press last week about Don McCullin’s new film found me rummaging through his autobiography ‘Unreasonable Behaviour’ and pondering on the look and feel of the images he is renowned for – Black & White Vietnam war and others. The report on his recent and possibly last war reporting in Aleppo showed […]
December 2012 draws to a close
After a busy start to December, things got really hectic. Little did I know that by the middle of the month I would have attended a funeral closely followed by the incarceration of mother-in-law in a dementia care home in the same week. The funeral was lovely, more than can be said for the care […]
Busy start to December
What a hectic start to the month! Bettina von Zwehl attended UCS and presented a guest lecture and I was asked to photograph her. Then we had a Lee Miller lecture provided by her son and granddaughter that was extremely good and I got to take their pictures too. Add to that photographing the launch […]
November – Where has it gone?
I’ve been a tad quiet lately. Quiet but busy. This semester is rapidly approaching its crescendo and what happened this month? Impaled by a pyracantha thorn in the back of my hand during a fire drill resulting in my right hand swelling to double the normal size resulting in a trip to A&E and a […]