Category: Photography

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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.

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Artemis II – Moon Mission and Nikon

Vintage market, people looking through the goods on the table.

It’s been a long time since we have been back to the moon.

The fashions on show from our local vintage market were likely new.

In that time NASA has moved from film Hasselblads on the moon to professional Nikon D5’s well proven to stand up to the temperature range and radiation of space.

I believe there testing mirrorless cameras but for now the trusty Nikon D5 professional camera is NASA’s main stay and is currently heading back to earth with the crew of the Artemis II mission.

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Wanting a new camera again – Olympus; Micro Four Thirds

silhouette of a woman drinking coffee by a window. People can be seen walking by outside

I was in Lincoln again this week visiting a couple of data centres to resolve hardware faults. As always I had a camera with me and in my lunch break went for a walk through the centre of town.

I grabbed a few shots before heading into an independent coffee shop for a coffee and sandwich.

With my transport needs met by several different modes, the main one for work being a motorcycle to cut through traffic quickly, I again started down the rabbit hole of what small camera would fill a particular every day carry niche when my Leica or Nikon ZF were a little to big.

As always my heart leads me towards a Ricoh GR or Fuji X100. The Fuji is not really any smaller and the Ricoh is expensive for a compact. For that money one can get something a little more flexible and fun. So I have been looking at the Olympus Pen line up. I came close to pulling the trigger on the original micro four thirds Pen when it was first released and it’s still a fun little camera. I started to look around and one can pick one up for about £80 in the local camera store.

Lens choice would be tough. The 17mm would be a start but would also like something a little wider.

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Choosing a mouse

Grid view in Lightroom classic showing a selection of black and white fashion photos

As I was redoing my desk, I wanted a new mouse. For light editing on the laptop, the touchpad is fine, but for more detailed editing then I reach for a mouse on the desktop. If its going to be a long detailed editing session then nothing beats a pen and tablet, so I also have my trust Wacom.

Screen shot of the Logitech mouse software for the MX Master 3S showing the controls on the mouse.

For a mouse, comfort, a few extra buttons one can configure for extra functionality in Lightroom and Photoshop, and a way of customising the scroll wheel. MAC OS still has not implemented a way of setting different scrolling preferences between touch pad and mouse, so it set the track pad how I want it in the OS settings and set the scroll wheel how I want it in the Logitech software.