A Journey to - oh dear Liverpool...

 Posted on 22 April 2010  |  3 minutes (473 words)

… what is happening to you? A beautiful spring day in the UK, on our way to the land of north - Liverpool. The train journey takes about 2 hours, plenty of time to read the newspaper. Liverpool football club is on “sale”. Clegg - the new Obama? Possible coalition? Goldman Sachs fraud… yes, we all know that the bankers heads won’t roll in the end, more news from the volcano, etc… We are shortly arriving in Liverpool was the announcement on the “Emporio Brandson” Virgin train. [Read More]

Short Photo Story

 Posted on 31 March 2010  |  5 minutes (882 words)

Now this assignment is like the stepping stone - combining the single shots we previously worked on, into a story. I really like to create a visual narrative, not that I find it easy to do, but I have looked forward to get input on this matter. So, there I was my brain turning around ideas not being able to decide in which direction I want to go… There is Ridley Road Market, Buddhist Center, issues around Photography in public spaces, Open Wireless Network (OWN)… I read into all the subjects, tried to come up with shooting scripts, took some pictures, nothing really convincing. [Read More]

Portrait

 Posted on 19 March 2010  |  1 minutes (152 words)

For this assignment we were asked to step away from the observer position and to actually take control of the situation. Portraiture is a fascinating subject - I really like to put the people in the “right light”, by that I mean to use available light correctly, play & experiment with it. We were also asked to experiment with Portraiture as such and create a ‘quirky’ version of our sitters. [Read More]

Human relationship

 Posted on 24 February 2010  |  2 minutes (296 words)

It’s everywhere, human relationships. We are surrounded by it day by day, in fact we strongly depend on it, without human relationships we would most probably not survive. And yet - it’s beautiful and painful at the same time, a rather dualistic matter; until death comes along and puts a definite end to it… In that case, shouldn’t we be more careful with our fellow humans? It was one of the rare sunny days in London, a Saturday and I decided to go to the center to take pictures of shoppers and tourists. [Read More]

Streetphotograpy

 Posted on 8 February 2010  |  7 minutes (1318 words)

I personally find Streetphotography wonderful to look at - or dive into; sitting on a comfy sofa, coffee and cookies and one of those great so-called coffee table books (hence the coffee and not tea) in my hands. It is always an adventure to look at those photographs of past masters of street photography - amazingly composed photographs, famous ‘the’ moment images that stay in your mind; you can discover so many details in those images, when you let your eyes ponder for a while… [Read More]

Streetphotograpy

 Posted on 8 February 2010  |  7 minutes (1318 words)

I personally find Streetphotography wonderful to look at - or dive into; sitting on a comfy sofa, coffee and cookies and one of those great so-called coffee table books (hence the coffee and not tea) in my hands. It is always an adventure to look at those photographs of past masters of street photography - amazingly composed photographs, famous ‘the’ moment images that stay in your mind; you can discover so many details in those images, when you let your eyes ponder for a while… [Read More]

1st assignment - people at work

 Posted on 27 January 2010  |  2 minutes (221 words)

Brief: fixed focal / bw / 400 ASA / all set manually / keep all images / no cropping / 70-100 images I decided to use my manual 35mm lens (instead of taping the zoom lens) on the D700 and honestly, what a “light weight” compare to that (monster) of zoom lens, I forgot about this practicality! It was less of a relief in terms of flexibility, I did have to juggle around those guys I was able to portray. [Read More]

1st assignment - people at work

 Posted on 27 January 2010  |  2 minutes (221 words)

Brief: fixed focal / bw / 400 ASA / all set manually / keep all images / no cropping / 70-100 images I decided to use my manual 35mm lens (instead of taping the zoom lens) on the D700 and honestly, what a “light weight” compare to that (monster) of zoom lens, I forgot about this practicality! It was less of a relief in terms of flexibility, I did have to juggle around those guys I was able to portray. [Read More]