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How do you relax – Chess

a chess board from chess.com. White and weaved a check mate net and trapped blacks king in the centre.

How do you relax. If I go out it’s generally taking photographs. Or it can be walking the dog and listening to podcasts or music is also high on the agenda. At home it’s often relaxing with a fine wine, or whisky. But sometimes I want to do something different and stretch my brain. So then I hit Chess.com, and play puzzles or occasionally a game.

This game was an interesting one. My opponent did not develop their pieces fast enough and so I pushed hard, it cost me my queen and on paper he was ahead, but I had forced his king out into the centre of the board and it was not long before I check mated him. I’ll be living with the buzz of this game for a while.

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Vision and understanding your focal length

Implied topless black and white portrait of Kim, she is looking camera right away from the viewer.

Your distance to your subject affects perspective. The field of view is controlled by your focal length.

So do you think about the focal length to select the type of image your trying to craft.

Its far to easy to stick a zoom on your camera and just zoom with your lens, but we should also zoom with our feet as this is what affects the perspective.

Spend some time with a prime lens or with your zoom set to a specific length, get to understand what look it gives you and how you can make it work for you.

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Nikon Cinema – Announcement at NAB?

Advert showing Nikon Cinema lens in silhouette

This week it’s NAB, National Association of Broadcasters. Nikon have been teasing there new range of cinema lens now for nearly six months. Is this the event where there finally ready to announce, it cannot be much longer.

HDR processes image of Scarborough Castle. The warm limestone walls seem to glow.

Many old AIS Nikons for a long time have been re-cased into modern housings which many top Holywood movies have used for some scenes.

Will the new cinema Nikkors go for clinical look or that of the old much loved AIS F mount Nikkors.

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Spring – Park Life

View of a park lake, lake to the left and a grassy bank to the right. Trees can be seen lining the bank. Some ducks and geese are visible lined up on the bank.

With spring well underway here in the northern hemisphere, I am walking around the local parks more often, and getting some nice snaps.

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Selecting a Theme for a Photoshoot

Young model in jeans and black top, holding her phone.

I am currently planning my April studio shoots, when I do one of these I always squeeze in time for a theme or protect.

a gallery of ladies in lingerie.

These can be simple such as lingerie, mobile phone, books and one I did recently, models in glasses.

Its fun to explore a theme and gives some variety to your images.

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Coffee

Local coffee shop Cafe Aroma just off Lincoln High Street by the Stonebow. Two people can be seen sat outside drinking coffee.

More and more companies are asking their staff to come in. I usually find a need to head into a clients office or a clients data centre once a week. This week it was Lincoln and they have a great independent coffee shop just off the high street.

Slightly blurred photo of a barista making coffee.

A good photograph does not necessary have to be correctly exposed or sharp. A Henri Carrier-Bresson said – “Sharpness is a bourgeois concept”.

Barista steaming milk at the coffee bar.
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St Helen’s

Black and White image of an old Church and grave yard. The entrance of St Helen's can be seen to the left with the extensive grave yard around it. Two figures in the distance look at one of the graves.

St Helen’s church Boutham Park. Taken with a Nikon Zf and Nikkor 35mm f/1.8 S lens.

I often visit parks around Lincoln to photography the flowers and fauna. Next to Boutham Park in Lincoln is the old St Helen’s.

Another view of St Helens church. Again this is a black and white photography with a large stone cross in the foreground.

Taken with a Nikon Zf and Leica Elmar-M 24mm f/3.8

It’s a very small old church that now sees weekly use. The main church is a very modern brick building so I imagine evening song here is much more impactful.