Yesterday I went to Wickham Market to view City and Guilds needlework exhibits. Some stunning work executed by the exhibitors with very clever use of form and colour. On the way in there were two Alvis cars of differing models and was lucky enough to get to talk to the owners of the green one […]
Out of the gutter
I have swung into action picking up other threads of work following my gutter exercises and found other shapes and colours that attract me. I normally have a camera about my person and some days it is a juggle to choose which one on top of or instead of the ever faithful Nikon P6000. Just […]
Pictures at an Exhibition (3)
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 […]
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 […]
Harvesting long sown crops
September has been rather quiet with me being otherwise engaged in commercial shoots and getting some jobs done before even worse weather moves in. I had hoped to get some large format work done but this has slipped me by but I did get to finish a very satisfying commercial shoot for Seager Home Solutions […]
Film or Digital?
In the seemingly never ending march of increased mega-pixel sensors do we take time to step back and ask whether we really need them? I have shot 6x6cm through to 35mm to early digital 3.3 mega-pixel through to 8 mega-pixel Dx and 12 mega-pixel Fx and back to 35mm film, 6x6cm film and 5×4″ film. […]
Formats – what to use?
I shoot in a variety of formats from 35mm film through APS sized, Dx and Fx digital to 6x6cm and 5×4″ film. I found over the years that that my taking rate rate increased drammatically even by not using the burst rate. I realised that I could afford to chance it and not really ‘waste […]