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Birmingham, grey
Sunday 10th of January 2016
Zoe attended a teaching conference on Saturday, and we thought it’d be a good chance for me to take a look around the city, which I’d never been to before. The weather was unfortunately not very inspiring, and I spent a good deal of time and energy trying to find a camera shop so I could get a spare battery for my camera, as I’d forgotten to charge the current one and I seem to have misplaced my e…
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Documentary photography in Tyria
Thursday 7th of January 2016
A series of pictures using screenshots from the game Guild Wars 2 as their base, processed to look like grainy black and white film photos. Ash Tribune quarters, Black Citadel Ash Tribune quarters, Black Citadel Breachwater Lake, Diessa Plateau Breachwater Lake, Diessa Plateau Dreamdark Enclave, Caledon Forest Dreamdark Enclave, Caledon Forest Monument Grounds, Blazeridge Steppes Monument …
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OCOLOY Week 39
Sunday 6th of December 2015
I said last week that I was going to think about using a ‘Fuji Neopan 1600’ emulation for processing this week’s pictures. I decided to go ahead with this, and quite early on realised it’d mean having to keep it in mind when shooting, as it has a particular contrast and colour response that’s quite… ‘opinionated’. The usual preset I use has a more subtle aesthetic, and suits quite a wide variety…
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OCOLOY Week 38
Sunday 29th of November 2015
For some reason I’m at loss to explain, a couple of days ago I started a Week 39 OCOLOY album in Capture One, thinking I’d already done 38. I was a rather dismayed that I’d left it so late in the week, further so because of the dreary weather since then. Of course, this post being titled ‘OCOLOY Week 38’ shows I was mistaken, and could in fact make use of several nice pictures I took earlier in th…
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OCOLOY Week 37
Monday 23rd of November 2015
I was getting a little worried that this week would be a washout, with the weather generally being wet and windy, but fortunately there were a few days of shine and I made an effort to use that nice light. Winter sun is probably my favourite kind of light – it combines the low and long shadows of a sunset/sunrise, but with a colder, whiter, more etherial feel. road arrow road arrow tree and walk…
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OCOLOY Week 35
Sunday 8th of November 2015
Oh dear. This week was mostly a disappointment, photographically, as I spent almost no time out taking pictures. The short time I did spend at Oulton Broad yesterday with Zoe did prove fruitful, though – the last picture in particular I really like, and that somewhat makes up for the rest of the week’s mediocrity. So few little time did I spec with the camera, in fact, that this week I only have 4…
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OCOLOY Week 34
Sunday 1st of November 2015
Rather last-minute this week, but what a productive minute it was! During the week the weather had once again been meh, and so had my motivation, but with Sunday came fog. Fog is always great for creative inspiration, I think because it’s so rare, and so there’s a novelty factor involved. no access gate no access gate tatters on barbed wire tatters on barbed wire Hamilton Road bus stop Hamil…
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OCOLOY Week 33
Tuesday 27th of October 2015
Much like last week , the weather this week was mostly grey and dull, making me really feel the onset of winter, and its associated emotional blues. This led me to poke around with some monochrome conversions in Capture One, and on a whim I tried a less contrasty one with a slightly brighter tone curve. I really like it, which is surprising to me because although I’ve often felt I should try to…
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OCOLOY Week 26
Sunday 6th of September 2015
This week I was definitely more active than last – I made a good effort to actually take some photos every day, even if I didn’t always go beyond my back garden. Saturday was perhaps the most ‘adventurous’, as Zoe and I went to Raveningham Country Fair . It was a little more… local than last year’s Heveningham Hall fair , and simply because of the smaller scale we were able to more or less s…
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Fuji 14mm at the beach
Sunday 16th of August 2015
Strictly speaking I shouldn’t be doing this. The rules state that one should only use a single lens for the year, and I chose the Fuji 35mm f/1.4, yet here I am dallying with the 14mm f/2.8. In my defence, I like to think I’ve been photographing for long enough now that maybe I don’t need to stick quite so rigidly to what is essentially a learning exercise. I’m still primarily shooting with the …
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OCOLOY Week 23
Sunday 16th of August 2015
I will admit up front that I cheated just slightly with this week’s post, in that a couple of the pictures aren’t from the previous week’s shooting, but are instead from around a month ago when Zoe and I went to a nearby forest. Still, had I been actively participating in my project at the time, I would have used those pictures, so it’s not too much of a stretch. tap and blind shadows tap and …
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OCOLOY Week 22
Monday 10th of August 2015
Um. So it’s been a while since the previous one camera one lens post , and honestly, I’ve not even used my camera all that much between then and now. Time to fix that! The (completely unintentional) summer OCOLOY break is over, and I’ll be posting weekly updates again, although I’m switching to posting on Monday from now on, as that lets me spend more time, on Sunday, writing the posts. This week…
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OCOLOY Week 20
Wednesday 3rd of June 2015
This week is a bit of an odd one out, for two reasons. First of all, some of these pictures are shot with my X100, which right away goes against the ‘one camera, one lens’ idea. I was checking to ensure it still worked properly since I was sending it to my brother, so I took it out on Saturday when Zoe and I went into Lowestoft town centre. I’d forgotten how … not great that camera’s EVF is – di…
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OCOLOY Week 12
Tuesday 7th of April 2015
This week was a nice change of pace as we went up to see Zoe’s parents for Easter. It’s been just about a year since we were last in the North West, and although I don’t really miss it, it was interesting to go back and see what, if anything, had changed (not much, it turns out). I also finally got my bike, which I’d left in the old house in Liverpool and had been meaning to get back ever since we…
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OCOLOY Week 11
Wednesday 1st of April 2015
I’m really starting to enjoy using this camera and lens combo now, and more importantly it feels just as comfortable and familiar as my X100 did after a year of use. I no longer feel constrained by the 50mm-e field of view; instead I’m simply accustomed to it and am able to recognise or dismiss potential scenes accordingly. The lens itself is not much of an issue either: for the type of shooting I…
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