Hunting for beauty and balance, camera in hand
So this month I'm back on my One Month One Camera (OMOC) project, and the camera I've chosen is a Samsung GX-1S Pentax K mount DSLR. You can read the intro post here. Now in all honesty the little Samsung isn't radically different from my other two Pentax K mount DSLRs with CCD sensors, the… Continue reading One Month One Camera – July 2020 (II) – The Luxury Of Simplicity
The last three months I've relaxed my One Month One Camera (OMOC) project, which has coincided with my usual annual return to predominantly shooting colour with my favourite summer cameras. This month, July, my plans are similar, but I do want to return to just one camera, rather than flitting between three. The camera I've… Continue reading One Month One Camera – July 2020 (I) – Samsung GX-1S
Over the last few years, I've noticed a definite seasonal pattern in the cameras I use, and the type of photographs they encourage. Broadly speaking, over the late autumn, winter and early spring, I favour digital compacts like my Ricoh GRD III and Lumix LX3, and their high contrast monochrome settings. Come late spring, there's… Continue reading My Favourite Summer Cameras
For the last five years I've been experimenting with vintage manual lenses on modern digital cameras. This came about originally from using the lenses on the 35mm film cameras they were intended for, and delighting in their beautiful build quality, smoothness in use, and the fantastic photographs they could produce. Then, in the spring of… Continue reading Using Vintage Lenses On Digital Bodies – A Compromise Too Far?
Shooting with film for the last five years or so has given me huge pleasure, taught me a great deal about the basics of composing and taking photographs, and created a small body of work I'm very happy with. But there came a point some months back where I deconstructed what film photography gave me,… Continue reading Dances With Digital Dilettantes – Pt 1
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