Backstreets and Rooftops Part 3

Backstreets and Rooftops Part 3

Reading Time: 2 minutes Playing some more with the rootop idea, I have gone down into the LS2 and Little Woodhouse area this time – somewhere I have not really explored in so much detail. Theres more of the redbrick here.

Backstreets and Rooftops Part 2

Backstreets and Rooftops Part 2

Reading Time: 2 minutes I’ve been out again with a further installment of the project to explore the backstreets and rooftops of Hyde Park – taking loose angled shots to explore the way we would see some of these places through the corner of our eyes, but would not 

The World Through Plastic

The World Through Plastic

Reading Time: 2 minutes I got out and a bout today to actually have a good outside test of the Plastic optic for my Lensbaby Composer, took it down to Woodhouse Moor to see what I could see. The weather is still vile, though as you can see a 

Backstreets and Rooftops

Backstreets and Rooftops

Reading Time: 2 minutes Walking around Hyde Park, I have come up with an idea I want to play with. I have always been quite taken with the local roofscapes – in a heavily built up inner-city area like this there is such a jumble of walls and roofs, 

Snow Galore

Snow Galore

Reading Time: 3 minutes We’ve had quite a bit of snow over the last couple of weeks, to a point that takes me back to my childhood when I remember (whether accurately or not) far more beautiful snowy days. The first batch was round my birthday, just before Christmas. 

Decay

Decay

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Some breif, boredom releiving experiments with the Lensbaby Macro Magnifiers. Just thought I would share this macro of a decayed, mummified russian dwarf hamster. You’re welcome.

Macro Study of a Christmas Cactus

Macro Study of a Christmas Cactus

Reading Time: 2 minutes To pass the time with this cold winter weather, I have been playing with some still life ideas. For Christmas I got the macro lens adapters for my Lensbaby Composer – these are old school simple magnifying lensses that screw into the filter thread. Combined 

Lensbaby Composer

Lensbaby Composer

Reading Time: 3 minutes Having read about this slightly obscure and bizzare lens in Practical Photography, I decided I had to try one. Birthday present time… The Lensbaby Composer is a concept both simple and fraught with complexity. It is simple lens casing with a ball and socket joint, 

Freaky Macro, Prawns and Pumpkins

Freaky Macro, Prawns and Pumpkins

Reading Time: 2 minutes Part of the structure of the fish-eye lens functions as a magnifier, and along with this I have picked up some other magnifying lenses. These are a cheap and ceerful way to get macro photography effects, by acting simply like a magnifying glass in the 

Fish Eyes on Hyde Park

Fish Eyes on Hyde Park

Reading Time: 3 minutes I have been playing a little more with the fish eye adapter. We got the chance to visit the old St Marks church in Woodhouse where I again had the same issues as in the London Underground, with lack of light. Some more interesting shots 

Shooting the Moon

Shooting the Moon

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Just a quick one to share this image (after a few attempts) of the moon through my Tamron Zoom lens…

Textures of Dereliction

Textures of Dereliction

Reading Time: 3 minutes These are some more images from Hyde Park and the surrounding areas, taken alongside some of my research photos – these are much more an aesthetic project, aiming to capture the micro textuaral details, isolating these from the full scene. Though of course these are