Night shoot along the South Bank
We met up at the Festival Hall, then spent what felt like ages waiting for the endarkenment over the House of Parliament by County Hall. And yes, we got told off for tripods, but it turns out you can use a collapsed tripod on a wall just as easily. Dusk fell, Parliament got lit and [...]
Minnie Weisz Studio – Wet Plate Colloidon Photography, Ambrotypes and Daguerrotypes
On our way back from our usual Sunday afternoon Womble to Kings Cross to see the shiny new buildings via the usual St Pancras Old Church and Camley Street natural park, we came across one of the not railway arches was open and demoing some photographic techniques. The Minnie Weisz Studio, bills itself as teaching [...]
Lola Colt – Awkward promo shoot
Got a last minute call to do a promo shoot of a band. There were constraints: it had to be done tonight for a deadline tomorrow, it had to be done in the dark and they wanted to use a projector for some interesting light. While they were running around setting things up, I played [...]
BP Portrait Award 2011
We did the BP Portrait Award Exhibition 2011 at The National Portrait Gallery today. Overall, a really nice selection of paintings in all styles from photo-realistic to splashy impressionistic, classical and even slightly cartoony. As a photographer, it’s very easy to forget there are other arts forms. Although there were a few here that borrowed [...]
Church Farm House – Underground Exhibition
Today we toddled up to the imminently closing Church Farm House Museum in Hendon to see the Harry Beck exhibition. Wow. With gardens at the back, a pub next door, church and graveyard it was like being in a village. Which at one point, I guess it was! So here are some pics of something [...]
Grace Solero, Water Rats
I’ve known Grace for over four years now, since I first saw her busking at Tottenham Court Road tube station and took a picture that I’d be happy to have somewhere in my portfolio. So, back to the Water Rats for yet another gig, having dragged ourselves out in the damp, instead of watching yet [...]
Street photography competition
A street photography competition caught my eye. I shoot constantly when out and about and have a huge number to choose from. A category is “world” and having spent six months in Taipei I can make a selection from there. However, my world is now Camden and I can choose a set I’ve shot since [...]
Regent’s Park in color film
The experiments continue. This is a roll I shot mostly in Regent’s park a few weeks ago when it was autumn rather than the Siberian conditions we have right now. This is the only passable picture out of 36 in my editorial opinion: The colours off the Fujifilm are good and the lens flare and [...]
Joanna guy, Camden Market
From our place, we have a secret back entrance to the Stables market. The new bit that certain Camden oldsters feel is too commercialised. Screw them. When you need a piano or some vintage leather shoes or a BOAC manbag, you know where to come. This guy sells pianos. Related Posts:Street photography competitionBarrow, Inverness Street [...]
Foggy Regent’s park morning
Not much to say about this except I’m glad I took the detour. As soon as I took it, I knew it was “the one”. Related Posts:Joanna guy, Camden MarketNight shoot along the South BankGrace Solero, Water RatsStreet photography competitionPrimrose Hill Greengrocer
Primrose Hill Greengrocer
Is it a sign of the times that it takes a posh area of London to sustain a “proper” greengrocer, whereas in an area like Camden where I’d expect poor people to load up on spuds from a sack is well-served by the usual Sainsbury’s, Morrisons and Lidl. That said, normal people probably couldn’t afford [...]
Performance in WordPress blogs
I gave a talk on blogging, and specifically WordPress, for photographers this week at the London Calling Photographers meet. One of the things that came up was performance. Now, on my return from Taipei I’d been in fairly deep discussion about a job with a company who had claimed a direct link between site performance [...]
Graveyard – photography cliché #14
Yesterday as we were driving to New Mills for a walk round the, er, old mills, we passed the church and churchyard in Chapel-en-le-Frith. It looked like a good setting to take some shots being all nicely overgrown. It’s also preparation for when I get back to London and have Highgate cemetery on my doorstep [...]
Channeling Ansel – or not
So, here I am up in the High Peaks area of Derbyshire, with some pretty epic scenery all around. Having been fired up by the Freeman book, I decided to scale Eccles Pike, yes, as in cake, which has a 360 degree view all around and wait for the sun to get low in the [...]
Chapel-En-Le Frith – High Peaks
OK, so the peaks aren’t quite as high as the ones I left behind in Taiwan but by British standards they’re pretty rugged and sheep-laden. I took a hike up to Eccles Pike which has a lovely view in both directions and over Coombs reservoir. The local cottagery is lovely. And as you can see, [...]
Taipei Sky – Colour or B/W?
So we had the torrential rain again. If you look at the satellite picture, Taiwan is surrounded by cloudless ocean and there’s a blob of cloud parked over the island. Ho hum. Still, it just cleared and we got a lovely bit of golden hour sun. I dashed up on the the roof and shot [...]
The big blue room
It put in an appearance today. Which was nice, so rather than being 35C and disgustingly humid, it was 39C, breezy and relatively dry. The cloud came over and denied us a proper sunset. Good excuse to bring out the 12-24mm lens though Related Posts:Taipei Sky – Colour or B/W?Street photography competitionChanneling Ansel – or [...]
Dave’s links of the week, 28 June 2010
And this is what’s been happening in Dave world over the last week and a bit. On my Facebook photography group: Taking macro shots with your phone camera. Not convinced about this. If you try it, let us know! Some incredible oil-spill based photos from Jane Fulton Alt. Go. Now. How to get photographic inspiration [...]
B/W prints – the reveal
A couple of days ago I took some photos of Taipei I’d taken, rendered to Tri-X 400 pushed 2 stops with Alienskin then asked for opinion. Those opinions were pretty evenly spread. With help, I chose 7 to be printed. The prints were on “Kodak Digital Royal” paper, for what that’s worth. Here are the [...]
Experiments in Alienskin
For a while now, I’ve been interested in the cognitive effects of “film effects” on a digital image. Many times I’ve taken a colour image that ticks all the boxes in terms of composition, exposure and so on and had little or no reaction. Once converted to black and white, suddenly, the response is much [...]
Annie Leibovitz shoots Keith Richards
I have a love-hate relationship with Annie Leibovitz. The book of her early music work “American Music” where she tours the states getting available light portraits of the stars of the day is inspiring. Her early staged shots such as the one of John and Yoko hours before he was shot is a classic. Her [...]
Mahoosive list of photography blog sites
OK, here’s a big unstructured list of photography blogs sites culled from around the interwebs. I reckon I have around 20 of them in my RSS feeds and I have a cunning and dangerous plan to do something with this list. Watch this space. They should probably be categorised too. In the mean time, your [...]
Web sites for photographers
As a geek first and photographer second, I often get asked “what should I use for my site?” The answer is, as always: “it depends”. Sorry. No quick fix. Cut to the chase: what it depends on is your buget and your “marketing mix”. In this blog I’m going to focus on two kinds of [...]
Daily Dave zombie Jesus edition: semen, pie, drugs, cancer
I trust you’re all having a nice Easter weekend. Here’s your daily dose of stuff: Most important of all, the recent discovery that pi = pie! An XKCD for the folks in LA who just got hit by a quake. You should have seen the tweets before it hit you! Weird Al very kindly gives [...]
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