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There’s a storm a brewin’…
We recently had a one week holiday down in lovely Cornwall. As our plan was to do as much coastal walking as possible, it was somewhat weather dependent. Luckily, all except one day was pretty good, and a few days were marvellous. The bad day was the day of Storm Agnes. For a few hours in the afternoon all manner of wild wind and rain happened. Going across the River Fal on the King Harry ferry was entertaining. While the storm was developing the sky began to look very ominous. It was clear that there was a lot of air movement. It was fascinating to watch. I took a shot…
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Sharpness is overrated
Now that Autumn is very much here we are getting dewy mornings and low-angle sunlight. Photographically that combination is too good to miss, so today I popped out into the garden with an unusual lens combination on my Olympus E-M5 Mk3; a Sigma 30mm f1.4 and a 10mm extension tube. My idea was to set the lens on f1.4, completely defocus and see what happened. My first subject was a lovely red maple tree. The sun was shining on the water droplets on the leaves, and the defocusing gave fabulous complexity to the highlights, especially in the lower half of the frame. I’ve bumped up the saturation as bit to…
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Curses, foiled again!
Yesterday I fitted some foil insulation to the ceiling of our cellar. It’s a 200 year old house so yes, we have a cellar. The foil is to help stop the room above it being so cold. I popped the roll of foil down on the kitchen floor and it caught a ray of morning sunlight. I loved what the sunlight reflections from the foil did to the kitchen floor, so it was out with my phone to capture it. The rays look a bit like the rising sun. A touch of editing to taste in Snapseed and it was done. Whilst I had the phone out I tried a…
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Bob Harris’s Shutter
I recently gave my “Movement in Photography” talk to the Facebook Camversation group. It was great to talk to about 100 photographers from around the world. One subject of my talk was the “Harris shutter”. It’s a technique developed by Bob Harris, a Kodak engineer, and involves taking a three exposures on one film frame using three coloured filters; red, green and blue, and with one exposure per filter. The idea is that where no movement has happened the colours come out normal, and where movement has happened you get red, green or blue colours appearing. You also get the additive colours where these primary colours overlap. It’s a fun…
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It’s show and tell time soon.
In August I am taking part in Worcestershire Open Studios (WoS) for the first time. In WoS artists of many types open their studios for everyone to come and look at and to talk about their work. I’ll be open from 11 am to 5.30pm on the 19th/20th and the 26th-28th. It would be great to see you there! Take a look at the WoS website here. I’ll have examples of my Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) work, (like the image above), my Bokeh work (like the image below), and many more. ICM is a method of producing images that are abstract and impressionistic. I’ll be more than happy to talk…