35mm, medium format and large format film photography (with the odd bit of digital every now and then…)
Jumping back six or seven weeks for today’s image, a shot of the City of London skyline taken from the South Bank at Blackfriar’s Bridge.
I like the way this has turned out – there’s a very slight haze on the tall buidings that gives a nice tonality to the shot. Even with a somewhat flat sky, I still think the image works well.
The handily-placed boat doesn’t hurt either. 🙂
Olympus OM-1, Zuiko 28mm f/3.5 & Fujifilm Acros (pushed to 400asa).
Taken on 23 October 2019
Another in my mini sequence of photos taken around London’s Barbican complex. This one I’ve decided to convert to black and white as I think the contrasts of light and shade work better in monochrome for this picture. The colour version looked a little washed out in comparison.
Canon Sure Shot Telemax & Kodak Colorplus (converted to B&W).
Taken on 13 November 2019
I’m ill with a cold today, so very quickly, here’s another shot of the Barbican complex in london. Just needs the Millenium Falcon or something to complete the sci-fi vibe.
Canon Sure Shot Telemax & Kodak Colorplus.
Taken on 13 November 2019
Taken at the Barbican complex in London a couple of weeks ago. It was a quickly grabbed shot as I liked the way the scene was lit and the little splashes of colour on the bins. I’m glad the chap is in the picture too, but I think it might still have worked without him there.
Canon Sure Shot Telemax & Kodak Colorplus.
Taken on 13 November 2019
I guess that this is a direct follow on to yesterdays photos, although this one was taken earlier – within a few minutes of the flooded field photograph that I posted a week or so back.
Once again, you will see the appearance of powerlines in the picture. While they add to the composition , they (and the tree and the road) were not the primary reason for taking the photo. That honour goes to the second bush from the right. You can’t tell from this black and white conversion, but it was a vivid autumnal orange, and attracted me to the scene. Alas, the uniform overcast grey sky meant that the colour image was a little drab, even with the splash of orange, so I went for the conversion instead, where the powerlines, tree and road make the shot.
Canon Sure Shot Telemax & Kodak Colorplus (converted to B&W).
Taken on 9 November 2019
Nine days. a whole nine days… That’s how long I managed to go without posting more photos of powerlines. I wonder if there’s a name for this weird attraction to them as photographic subjects? There are definately a number of groups devoted to the subject matter on Flickr – I know this because I post my pictures to them sometimes!
I’m probably over-egging this a bit to be fair – it’s not as though I go out of my way to take pictures of them deliberately. I never plan a day out to travel around photographing pylons or anything like that. It’s just that I find that they have a look to them that appeals.
Sometimes, as in the case of the photos today, it’s their surroundings – this time following a route across empty autumnal fields in a way the evokes big empty spaces and calls Glen Campbell’s Wichita Lineman to mind. It’s a false evocation – here in the UK you’re rarely more than a few miles from civilisation, or at least evidence of such, but that’s one of the beauties of a photograph – they can tell other stories than their reality.
I did wonder about leaving these as colour images. They were shot on a dull, ovecast day with flat light and of a largely muted colour scheme – the only real colour being a soft yellowy beige of the autumnal cropped grasses in the fields – which did have it’s own faded charm. On the whole though, I prefer the black and white versions.
Canon Sure Shot Telemax & Kodak Colorplus (converted to B&W).
Taken on 9 November 2019
Apologies, but this will be another short post today – work is keeping me pretty busy at present, which is good, but means I’m not in the right frame of mind to type lengthy posts when I finish for the day.
Another photo where I’ve been spotted. 🙂
Olympus OM-1, Zuiko 28mm f/3.5 & Ilford HP5+.
Taken on 23 October 2019
Contemplating the menu at the Four Seasons restaurant in London’s Chinatown.
Olympus OM-1, Zuiko 28mm f/3.5 & Ilford HP5+.
Taken on 23 October 2019
In yesterday’s blog post I featured a cityscape shot of London depicting the Thames, the South Bank, and – in the distance – various other famous buildings (St. Paul’s Cathedral, the Shard, the office towers in the City of London).
One thing that probably went mostly unnoticed is the staircase that I’m showing today. It’s in there if you look for it.
I took a couple of shots of this – the other has a lady halfway up the second flight – but, while that one is ok, I much prefer this. The positioning of the man, the contrast and sharpness that the good ‘ol OM-1 and Zuiko glass provides, plus a bonus pigeon(!) make this one work better, I think.
Olympus OM-1, Zuiko 28mm f/3.5 & Ilford HP5+.
Taken on 23 October 2019
This was taken from the Golden Jubilee bridge over the Thames. It’s a double pedestrian footbridge with seperate walkways either side of the Hungerford Bridge (which carries rail traffic over the river and into Charing Cross Station).
The bridge that can be seen in the shot is Waterloo Bridge.
Olympus OM-1, Zuiko 28mm f/3.5 & Ilford HP5+.
Taken on 23 October 2019
