...a plethora of creative nonsense...
This is a parent catagory for posts relating to different subjects and styles in my photographic practice. The natue of Wordpress means you may stumble here accidentally rather than on to the more specific catagories. Feel free to look around while you are here.
Abstract and Experimental – Wedding and Corporate – Documentary – Event – Film Photography – Fine Art – Landscape – Nature – Nightlife
Phone Photography – Portrait – Quickshots – Railway – Still Life – Still Life – Street – Urban – Vernacular – Visual Research
Reading Time: 2 minutesTo 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 …
Reading Time: 3 minutesHaving 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, …
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s not often you get to meet a real reindeer, but we have had some visiting at work this week!
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe do love a good sunset here, and as we approach the turn of the year again, here’s just a few more that I have found lying about on the hard drives, in and amongst other sets this year.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPart 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 …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJust a quick one. had a quick go at stitching together a panorama today, of the view from my office window over campus. I’m quite pleased with how this has turned out.
Reading Time: 3 minutesI 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 …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJust a quick one to share this image (after a few attempts) of the moon through my Tamron Zoom lens…
Reading Time: 2 minutesSometimes I do think that I am a little odd. I found these mushrooms growing on the edge of campus, and of course just had to get the camera and grovel about in the wet to take photos…
Reading Time: 2 minutesI took myself round and about Woodhouse Moor for a lunchtime walk, and to try and capture some of the colours of Autumn. Autumn is a funny month, nature displays some of the best colours of the year, but the weather so often fades these …
Reading Time: 3 minutesThese 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 …
