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OCOLOY Week 52
Thursday 7th of April 2016
And here it is, the final week ! It’s been quite the journey, and I think has served its purpose excellently. I know my X-E1 and 35/1.4 now, their strengths and weaknesses, and I can set them up for a shot instinctively. I’m comfortable with the 50mm-e field of view, which I certainly wasn’t in the beginning . One perhaps surprising result of this experience is that it’s really dulled my cravi…
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OCOLOY Week 51
Wednesday 30th of March 2016
For this penultimate week, I decided to bend the rules a little, in that I actually used my X100 all week instead of the X-E1 and 35/1.4, thus foregoing the ‘one camera’ and ‘one lens’ aspects entirely. Not even the same focal length. But man have I missed the X100. I sent it to my brother months ago since he wanted to see if that 35mm-e field of view suited him before buying the equivalent lens f…
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OCOLOY Week 50
Monday 21st of March 2016
Fifty! Only two more after this, the end feels so close now. I’ve started forming some vague ideas about what I want to do with the huge volume of photos I’ve accumulated over the past year (and a bit, since I stalled several times). Since most of the pictures are from within a few miles, I think I’m going to do a kind of documentary project about Lowestoft and the surrounding areas, possibly from…
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OCOLOY Week 49
Sunday 13th of March 2016
Oops. I seem to have missed a week! Honestly, there’s no good reason for this, just a combination of forgetfulness and lack of motivation; that week, I really didn’t get out to take pictures much. Fortunately, this week was rather more productive: not only did I manage to get out for a few early morning walks, today Zoe and I went to Framlingham Castle ! That last time she was there the market wa…
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OCOLOY Week 48
Monday 29th of February 2016
All this week I’ve felt like this OCOLOY post was going to be pretty good, as I made a decent effort to get out with my camera several times and got some nice pictures as a result. I would have written this on time, too, except I got distracted by my shiny new printer, a Canon Pro-10S. It’s an A3 pigment ink printer, and it’s lovely – already I’ve gone through most of a 50 pack of PermaJet matte p…
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OCOLOY Week 47
Sunday 21st of February 2016
Following on from marriage on Tuesday, Zoe and I went on a small honeymoon to a country house hotel in northern Norfolk, courtesy of her sister. It was a little dark by the time we got there, thanks to some roadworks delaying us by half an hour on the way, but we still had time to enjoy a lovely walk around the large National Trust park behind the hotel. country garden livestock warning branches a…
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OCOLOY Week 46
Tuesday 16th of February 2016
Bit of a departure this week, as for one thing this post is late, but I have a good reason: I got married! Even though it was a low-key thing, it was still a bit stressful getting things prepared, so not much time for picture-taking. The other departure is colour. Most of these pictures were taken in Beccles and although the monochrome versions are ok, I still feel like the colour is necessary wit…
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OCOLOY Week 45
Sunday 7th of February 2016
Quite a ‘close to home’ week, this one, in that I didn’t really venture any further afield than Lowestoft, at least not anywhere photographically interesting. There industrial estate near Beccles where we went for breakfast, at a café called Posh Pigs, might have borne some fruit, if the weather was nicer and we’d had more free time to spend there, so it might be worth a return trip (even if just …
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OCOLOY Week 44
Sunday 31st of January 2016
Busy at work this week, and you know what that means: not many pictures taken – few enough, in fact, that I had to scavenge some from last week to make 7. The week wasn’t a total lazy-fest though, as I’ve started going running again, 3 times a week, using a 10K training thing on my phone. I say ‘running’ but at this stage it’s actually 80% walking, but given how unfit I am, running for 1 minute at…
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OCOLOY Week 43
Sunday 24th of January 2016
Bit of a slow week, this one, with no good pictures taken during the most of the week – all but one of this week’s pictures are from my trip to Hunstanton on Saturday. I find it interesting the difference in choice of pictures for that post versus this one; I can’t quite explain it but they seem less… abstract? Prettier? light house and coast guard three black rocks cliff face big square rock …
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OCOLOY Week 42
Sunday 17th of January 2016
Christmas and New Year are quite the schedule disruptors, as evidenced by the nearly 4 week break since the previous OCOLOY post and during that time I did quite a bit of shooting with lenses other than the 35mm. The regular weekly posting will now resume, though, and with only ten more to go! I’ve decided that when I finish I’m going to do a Top 10, since a ‘best of each week’ isn’t really practi…
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OCOLOY Week 41
Sunday 20th of December 2015
I digressed a little this week, photographically speaking: the first two pictures in this post are not from the usual 35mm lens. The first is from the Fuji 18 – 55mm f/2.8 – 4, the mid-range ‘kit lens’ that most people seem to think is undeserving of the negative connotations such a term suggests. It certainly is a nice lens, especially given its price when bought as part of a kit, but I think I’ve be…
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OCOLOY Week 40
Sunday 13th of December 2015
40 feels like a milestone, a nice round number of weeks. It’s certainly a significant chunk of a year! Still, the ones I’m most looking forward to are 42 and 47, or ‘10 weeks to go’ and ‘5 weeks to go’, and of course weeks 51 and 52 will be rather exciting. Yesterday Zoe and I went to Norwich, and on the way home stopped by Wex Photographic ’s showroom to buy a Christmas present for her dad. Whil…
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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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