Category: digital

Experimenting

Finally, after collecting articles from photography magazines and websites, I’ve been working through various tips and hints to advance my photography, both in image capture and post-production.

I haven’t quite mastered the Breziner method, but I’ve made some architectural collages that I like:

Seville
City of London

Twin focus combinations have been fun:

Woolwich
Plumstead

Solarizing has been great fun:

Most recently, I’ve been experimenting with long exposures:

Danson House
Canary Wharf

The aim is to apply every technique that interests me in my usual photography. Hopefully I’ll be discovering new types of images in this process.

The last batch

I’ve been clearing out my laptop and desktop photos: thousands of images taken over the years and piled onto my hard drives with little in the way of organisation: no more.

2017, 2016, 2014 and most of 2018 have been completed: filed, edited and reduced. Now I am doing 2013 and 2012 and they’re the most disorganised years. I had acquired my first digital camera at that time and I was intoxicated by the freedom of multiple image making after the conservative, considered years of film photography. I took a lot of photos.

As I organise and edit these images down, I am at last taking some crafted, experimental digital images, using techniques culled from photography magazines and weblogs. I am also planning to return to film image making, both still and motion.

Cross process experiment
Solarised image of buildings in Euston
Twin focus combination of Woolwich and Canary Wharf.

Once done, I’ll be printing selected images, but for now, the organisation continues.