Hunting for beauty and balance, camera in hand
Imagine you lost all your photography equipment (including any camera phones), all computers, hard drives, and every photograph you'd ever made - whether a physical print or a digital image. A complete and irreversible photographic system and hardware crash. Calm down, it's just a theoretical question. But if this did happen tomorrow, how would you… Continue reading Photographer Reborn!
Double exposures (where one frame contains two images overlaid) have been a feature of my photography journey for the last six years or so. Have you tried them? Here's how I got into them and why I still enjoy them. My first film camera was a Holga 120N, which despite its extreme simplicity, needed a… Continue reading The Delights Of Double Exposure
Want to make photographs with a smartphone and nothing else? Go ahead, shoot without shame. Want to use a 100+ year old Box Brownie as your camera of choice? Go ahead, shoot without shame. Maybe you prefer a classic 70's SLR like a Spotmatic or OM? Go ahead, shoot without shame. Is your favourite light… Continue reading Shoot Photos Without Shame
My Pentax Q has taken a back seat lately, with the Ricoh GX100 and an old Sony camera phone delivering all I need in both the experience and the final image. The Q is too wonderful a camera to stay out of the limelight for too long though. As a regular reader you might recall I… Continue reading Lo-Fi In Your Eye – Up Close With The Pentax Q 07 Lens
The second in a new series of posts called Books Before Gear (BBG), as I move increasingly towards viewing photographs via paper rather than pixels. I’m no art critic, and my thoughts about each book are entirely subjective, but hopefully they’ll give you an idea of whether you might enjoy the book too. At the… Continue reading Books Before Gear #2 – In England – Don McCullin
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