Photos

June 13, 2010

A View From Childhood

This was the view from our back garden in Dollar, around 1987 - September or October, I'd guess. I can't claim any credit for the photo, as it was Mum's work.

I could have shared a photo of my brother in a very mid-80s Miami Vice-style outfit.

But any jury in the country would acquit him of my murder if I did so…

June 12, 2010

I'm spending some time scanning my way through a big bag of negatives, and this morning I was working on a film from the early to mis-80s. This is my brother, on holiday, in very 80s mirror shades - with me very clearly reflected in them.

I'd have been pleased to have taken this shot today, let alone 25 years ago.

June 7, 2010

Private Dining

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May 31, 2010

Scenes from a home hunt

Still trying to figure out where to live next…

May 14, 2010

What Adobe is Still Good At

I sometimes think Adobe is fighting the wrong fight. The current spat between the two over Flash is well documented (and I rather like Jeff's take on it). But Adobe's real strength, to me, is in its Creative Suite product, and Photoshop in particular. And last night I had my first chance to play with the latest version of it. I've been looking forward to the new Content Aware abilities (see posts passim), because I'm in the process of digitising and restoring a whole bunch of old family photos.

Here's what I started with last night:

Faded, damaged, parts of the edges missing. It's not in a terrible state, but it would be pretty time-consuming to restore under previous versions of Photoshop.

30 minutes later, extensive use of the content-aware tool and this is the result:

And, you know what? I'm pretty pleased with that. I intend to go to work with some more challenging images in the next few days.

May 5, 2010

Baptismal Photos

I've been a wee bit busy of late - playing catch-up at work, after a few days off sick, and away for a christening at the weekend. Here's a few photos from the event in lieu of a real post:

April 10, 2010

50mm of Fun

So, based on many rave blog posts and articles in magazines, I treated myself to a 50mm f1.8 lens for my Canon DSLR, and I've been having fun out and about with it. Fast shutter speeds, really shallow depth of field. Just great. I see why people rave about these things.

These images were grabbed in my mother-in-law's back garden last week:

There's more to be found over on Flickr.

April 9, 2010

Film Finis?

I promised you an explanation of my current photo project, didn't I?

It was inspired (or, more accurately re-inspired) by this post over on Lemonlight. Angie's evocative pics reminded me of the particular texture of film and the images it produces. I went essentially 100% digital in my photography around late 2004, and I've had a bunch of unexposed, unused film lying around ever since. I'd been meaning to shoot them, rather than seeing them going to waste, and see what the results are.

To add a twist, I've decided that I can only shoot things I come across through the course of my day - I'm not going to go anywhere or do anything special to find these photos.

The image in this post, and the previous ones, were all shot around RBI's office in Sutton on, of all things, a roll of WH Smith colour negative film - which I have a suspicion was Mum's rather than mine. Most of the pics are straight reject, but a small handful of the scans are going into my Aperture library as a record of the texture of my life right now.

On to the next roll…

April 9, 2010

HipstaWalk #1

Spring finally seems to have arrived in London, so I took the opportunity to walk a chunk of the distance home this evening. I headed down Kingsway, across Waterloo Bridge and made my way to London Bridge along the south bank.

And the light was so very beautiful, I couldn't resist trying to grab some images using the Hipstamatic app on my iPhone. After some experimentation, I settled on the Helga lens and Verichrome film as best suited to the conditions. And I'm pretty pleased with the results .

Buildings: