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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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OCOLOY Week 25
Monday 31st of August 2015
I honestly don’t have all that much to say this week. Here’s some photos. fairground swing ride fairground swing ride gate bolt gate bolt Tabbster on the shed Tabbster on the shed aircraft wing aircraft wing Dinky’s garden Dinky’s garden tree-lined road tree-lined road Bungay castle Bungay castle Mystère mouth Mystère mouth
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OCOLOY Week 24
Sunday 23rd of August 2015
I’m wavering. Black and white, or colour? I can’t settle on one, I like both. I think it’s the weather – shiny days make me want to capture in colour, and the weather represented by this week’s pictures is certainly sunny (and for walking around Ipswich, sometimes uncomfortably so). Although I did a bit of shooting during the week, none of it resulted in much of interest, so all of these pictures …
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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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Fuji 14mm brief initial impressions
Saturday 15th of August 2015
I finally saved up enough to get a lens I’ve wanted for quite a while now: the Fuji XF 14mm f/2.8 R . This article is some of my first thoughts about the lens, in no particular order. Here’s my lens family now: Fuji lenses: 14mm, 35mm f/1.4, 18 – 55mm 14mm f/2.8, 35mm f/1.4, 18 – 55mm It’s about half way between the 35 and 18 – 55 in size and weight, and balances just fine on my X-E1. It comes with a…
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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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Into Darkness
Sunday 14th of June 2015
I spent most of yesterday writing code , right on up until about 9pm, which left me in no frame of mind to sleep, so I decided to go for a walk to clear my head. I got a bit lost, following a road into a housing estate then on to various footpaths that crossed fields. The light was like this when I started: the light at the start of my trek Getting dark, but nothing to worry about really. By the …
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OCOLOY Week 21
Sunday 7th of June 2015
Last week I reverted to monochrome, mostly to see how it would feel. I liked it well enough, but, for now at least, I like shooting in colour more. It fits better with my general mood, and with what I think of when I think ‘summer’ (even if some of the pictures aren’t particularly ‘summery’). I think also I want to try exploring more of the ‘wide-angle’ side of the 50mm-e field of view – to try …
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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 19
Monday 25th of May 2015
Quite an eventful week, this one: as mentioned previously , on Friday I headed down to London for the annual company ‘retreat’ (actually more of a company year-in-review). It was Zoe’s birthday on Saturday and my brother, who lives in Brighton, offered to let us stay at his house for the weekend, so Zoe met us in Brighton on Saturday and we had a lovely birthday meal at an Indian restaurant calle…
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OCOLOY Week 18
Wednesday 20th of May 2015
Hark at me, posting one of these on time for once! In part this is because I got up at 6 this morning, to try and get a little more used to early mornings (and consequent early nights) in preparation for Friday, when I’m heading to London for the annual company retreat. For which I need to catch the 05:42 train from Lowestoft. Rather than sit indoors trying to stay awake, I decided, since it’s a l…
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OCOLOY Week 17
Saturday 16th of May 2015
Not that long ago I said I was finally getting comfortable with the ‘normal’ field of view, in the same way that after a year of owning an X100 I got comfortable with that camera’s ‘wide normal’ view. I’m now also feeling a similar thing to what I felt before I caved and bought my X-E1: constraint, and perhaps boredom. Perhaps it’s part of the point of this exercise, to face these feelings and the…
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OCOLOY Week 16
Friday 8th of May 2015
This was a week of locational variety! At the weekend Zoe and I went to visit her sister in Cambridge, and on Wednesday I went to London on business. Alas, it was almost exclusively business, with little time to take pictures. Still, it was good to visit somewhere different from my usual local area, even if the 3 hour train journey each way is a bit of a chore. warehouse sundown warehouse sundow…
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OCOLOY Week 15
Thursday 30th of April 2015
It’s been another one of those super busy weeks with very little time or energy for photography, sadly. I did go on a nice bike ride, and Zoe and I went to visit a Roman Castle , but perhaps due to the relative novelty (still) of shooting in colour, a lot of the pictures turned out pretty similar. six six ride ride wall cloud 1 wall cloud 1 wall cloud 2 wall cloud 2 yellow field yellow …
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OCOLOY Week 14
Wednesday 22nd of April 2015
I think the colour experiment is going ok so far. I still feel good about it, although using my Capture One preset with contrasty images is proving a little challenging, and there’s no shortage of those with the weather we’ve been having here lately. It’s been interesting trying to see things in terms of more than just tones – trying to find nicely contrasting and harmonising colours, and using th…
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