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OCOLOY Week 10
Friday 27th of March 2015
A little late posting this week, as I’ve been very busy at work, on top of needing to get my car fixed. Anyway, week ten! One fifth of the way through, and I feel like I’m really starting to get comfortable with the 50mm-e focal length now. I’m finding it much easier to pre-visualise framing, so I’m able to move to a position, bring the camera up to my eye and have things more or less look how I e…
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Oulton Broad
Saturday 21st of March 2015
I recently went to nearby Oulton Broad , a large lake and marshland west of Lowestoft. Luckily the weather was shiny, and although a little chilly, by the time I’d done a fair amount of walking I was plenty warm. Hopefully when the weather warms up a bit more Zoe and I will go out here for a picnic, and have a walk around the local town. Oulton Broad looking east from Bridge Road The view east …
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OCOLOY Week 9
Wednesday 18th of March 2015
There are clearly not enough pictures of cats on the internet so this week I took some more. flag texture flag texture shed roof shed roof coin jar coin jar ornate shadow ornate shadow the junction The Junction playground wobbler playground wobbler dry flower buds dry flower buds
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OCOLOY Week 8
Tuesday 10th of March 2015
I confess I was quite slack this week, not taking any photos at all until the weekend, and even then only getting out for an hour or so on a dull, cloudy evening. Still, it was good to get out for a walk over to the beach again – with the bad weather it’s not really been worth it very often. I also had some more thoughts on the ‘dishonesty’ of adding grain to my photos even though practically spea…
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OCOLOY Week 7
Wednesday 4th of March 2015
After a bit of a slow start Wednesday to Friday, the weekend was really productive for me: each day I went on a nice long walk up Lowestoft’s main shopping precinct and high street, then back along the seafront. On Sunday the weather was cold and grey and windy whereas Saturday was bright and sunny (but still pretty cold and windy). Surprisingly though I feel like the pictures I took on the dull g…
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OCOLOY Week 6
Monday 23rd of February 2015
This weekend Zoe and I paid a visit to Beccles, an old town a short drive away. Unfortunately the weather was rather dull, and being Sunday all the shops were shut. On the other hand, this meant the place was very quiet and peaceful. I’ve also been very busy at work lately, too, which has meant I’ve not always had the energy for making a good effort to get out and take pictures. Still, the short t…
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OCOLOY Week 5
Tuesday 17th of February 2015
Bit of a lazy start to the week, but by Sunday I was much more active, and went on a nice walk. Sadly the weather was flat and grey, but I saw that as a challenge. Morrisons Morrisons shower scrub shower scrub litter bin and signal box 6P29 fragile bench fragile bench wood’s edge wood’s edge curvy hangout curvy hangout flags flags
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OCOLOY Week 4
Tuesday 10th of February 2015
For this week I’ve gone with the suggestion to stick with just one processing preset in Capture One – Robert Boyer’s Tri-X +2 , which is a grainy, contrasty and ‘vintage’ look that I really like. Admittedly, it’s a bit… dishonest, perhpas? I mean, the output from the X-E1 is nowhere near as coarse-grained – the picture below shows a 100% crop comparing the normal Tri-X preset (with grain amou…
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OCOLOY Week 3
Tuesday 3rd of February 2015
Gosh what an uninspiring week! Perhaps it’s just the initial excitement of starting a New Project wearing off, or perhaps lack of sleep, but this week I really struggled to find motiviation, and on a couple of days didn’t even bother to get out of the house for a walk. Sidenote: I’m still using Capture One 8 for my pictures, but I’m trying out Robert Boyer’s B&W film presets , specifically Tri-X …
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OCOLOY Week 2
Tuesday 27th of January 2015
This week was a mix of clear skies and bright winter sun, and dull overcast days where it was a struggle to find anything interesting to shoot. I’m quite pleased with my efforts to consistently go for reasonably long walks (at least 30 minutes) every day, one of which was after sunset – I think in the future I’ll try to get more pictures at night, to explore the possibilities. abandoned delivery …
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Winter Sun
Tuesday 16th of December 2014
In case it’s not obvious from previous posts, I really like the photographic opportunities winter provides. At a latitude of around 52°, by mid-December there’s a mere 7 hours and 45 minutes of daylight, and the sun barely reaches 14° above the horizon, so shadows are long throughout the day. tree shadows on a footpath Lowestoft south beach promenad 12:30, and the sun is at its highest point of th…
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Fog in the Morning
Monday 29th of September 2014
It’s not often we get fog like this in the morning, so I felt compelled to take advantage of it with a nice walk to the beach before work. lost cat poster bike warning sign bollard on cycle path water tower office Office building in front of our local water tower trees in two layers of fog dewy spider webs beach grass It’s quite an odd experience walking on a foggy beach. beach plant dog walker on…
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Fog at Night
Friday 19th of September 2014
Fog has always fascinated me – the way it makes things look is obviously different, but also the way it mutes sounds, and disorients the senses. At night time these effects are amplified further, with large patches of grey that fade out into unknown darkness. lamp post shadow Odd shadow below a lamp post backlit spider web shady alley Fog is great for light rays bright bollards The street lights l…
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London Streets
Monday 21st of July 2014
Saturday was a bit of a gamble, weather-wise – originally forecast to be a toasty 29°, this was later amended to warn of possible storms, so the employer-organised picnic Zoe and I were going to in London was cancelled. Having already bought our train tickets, we decided to have a day out in London anyway, and have lunch with my brother and his girlfriend. The 08:00 train from Lowestoft to Ipswic…
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