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The World Wide Web

I have a had a long career in IT. From mainframes to the start of the PC revolution and the start of networking computers. I have memories from the 1990’s of pulling up the floor to find where the good old coax cable had become broken and brought the whole network down.

I was browsing Mastodon and came across a reminder that last week that we are in the 35th anniversary of the World Wide Web.

Back then the first web browser just ran on powerful Next Machines at Cern, but they developed a universal command line browser similar to w3c that I use sometimes on one of my Linux ThinkPad.

A screen capture of the w3c command line browser I sometimes use on one of my ThinkPads running Arch.

Now with restrictive laws and age verification we are killing the open web; forcing people to use Facebook and other gatekeeping closed systems that steal from us and feed us a lie.

Thank you Tim Berners-Lee and the team, lets hope the open web survives.

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Street Photography – sneaking a shot or asking?

An older couple sat in the corn hill square in Lincoln. Both are sat resting after doing some shopping.

I see a few styles of street photography. The shot above, a general scene, people in the shot. Its a shot that people do not mind too much being in shot.

A charity working in a pretty dress collecting money. She has blond hair with a blue hair tie and a blue dress.

For the more street portrait style, I go up and ask people. It’s only polite. But I know some people just shove a camera in peoples faces.

Young blond model in green trousers and black top stood next to an old lamppost. She os stood in an old street in Lincoln.

Of course the opposite to street photography, when I hire a model and take her for a photo walk on a city street.

What’s your way of working?

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Batteries

A unboxing photograph of a Leica M10. Its sat on a wooden table with a leather half case next to it.

If you have an older Leica M9, M10 or M240, then I see Leica batteries are back in stock.

When it comes to Nikon as they have kept the same battery format since the D800, I have lots of Nikon Batteries, but when I bought my Leica I ensured I bought some spare batteries to go with it.

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Having a break

Sorry for the lack of posts recently, been concentrating on other things. Had a few studio shoots, catch up with my favourite model and generally concentrating on the day job.

The heat and humidity just seems to go on at the moment.

Hope your all taking care in this warm weather.

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Camera Aspect Ratio

Black and white shot of a young model wearing an off the shoulder dress. She has her arms up holding her long hair up.
Young dark haired model, one hand going over her head the other touching her neck.

The joy of large megapixels is the ability to crop, select different aspect ratios without loosing too many megapixels, but you will always loose some.

Panasonic took a different route.

  • 4:3
  • 3:2
  • 16:9
  • 1:1

You can with most cameras select an aspect ratio but it just crops in camera and you lose pixels. Panasonic created a sensor that keeps the diagonal pixel count the same, so if you switch to a narrower and taller aspect while a traditional camera just looses pixels of the side the Panasonic extends the height.

It’s one reason why a lot of people like the Panasonic GH and compact range.

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Heatwave

Young blond model sat on the grass in a graveyard. She is wearing a sunhat and pretty print dress looking towards the camera.

Once the warmer weather hits I like to get out and do some outdoor photography. It can be hit and miss. I have had to cancel due to high winds, storms etc.

At the moment the issue is heat. Here in the humid UK anytime its above 30C its just feels to hot to work.

Young female model in a summer dress holding a hat, she is looking down at the hat and her other hand touches her face.

So unless its a bit of landscape or street photography, model photography is restricted to air conditioned studios.

Model with black dress, she has lowered down to bear her shoulders. She is leaning on a tree.