I enjoy Ted Forbes You Tube Channel – The Art of Photography, and whenever I have a few spare minutes check out his reflections on famous (and not so famous) photographers. Last week it was the turn of Imogen Cunningham. She experimented widely but it was her floral photographs, particularly her black and white Calla […]
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Was asked by one of the organisers to take some photos for possibly inclusion in the local newspaper. Here’s a small selection from what I sent her (and some others too):
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I take a neighbour’s son to basketball occasionally in York and this week brought my camera along with my 50 and 85mm Canon lenses, so no zoom opportunity but had fun capturing what I could. As usual I edited them with Luminar. I like the Matt effect under the Creative tab which works with these
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I really enjoy photography and relish having a go at almost anything but wedding photography is one I steer clear of. The pressure of getting it right, the formalities, skills required and, I must admit, my belief that far too much money is spent on them, will keep me from entering that world. However, that
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Buy your own Zine of this project. I enjoyed watching this video by Imitative Photography about Todd Hido’s work shooting suburban houses at night. and also Jamie Windsor’s excellent analysis of Todd Hido’s work covering the same area: Funnily enough we are currently on a short holiday in Norfolk and have found ourselves in the
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I was delighted when neighbour Anne agreed to have her portrait taken. I don’t know her really well and she appears quite shy but she arrived at the pre-arranged time and I must say we had a brilliant chat about all sorts of interesting topics whilst I clicked away. Anne said she didn’t like photographs
I came across the work of Eliza Tsitsimeaua on Instagram and she inspired me to have a go at overlays. I’d been aware of them and double exposures as a creative opportunity but never attempted them. Luminar makes it relatively easy so here are some of my early creations.
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It’s mid August and the moorland heather is at its purple best. We found ourselves in the vicinity of Ana’s Cross last night on a quest to return a pair of lost spectacles (long story …), so while Rach was sorting that I tried different angles to try and capture the monument in an interesting
