Photography

The City

Wednesday, 12th December 2018

A quick one today from my increasingly-regular lunchtime walk over the river to Tate Modern, this time looking back towards the City.

I've been using this walk a lot both to just get out and shoot, but also to test different camera and lens combinations with a (relatively) consistent subject matter. This time, I had the Fuji GFX 50S with 63mm f/2.8 and, as often for these street walks, was shooting with the Acros+Y black and white film simulation on the viewfinder.

The light playing over the buildings really works in B&W, so I processed the raw file in the same Acros simulation as a base and then applied a mild tone curve and made some adjustments to blacks, whites, highlights and shadows; I also added a very small amount of clarity (+6 in Lightroom) to help with edge contrast as I was trying to find the right balance of not having an overall-too-contrasty image but wanting a bit of punch in there too to convey the crispness of the light on the day.

Street style along the Southbank

I ran a photo walk for Funding Circle and got some lovely shots along the way

Thursday, 12th October 2017

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Thames riverside B&W: image and thought process

Thursday, 18th October 2018

I've been sitting on this photograph for almost a year without sharing or publishing it. It's one of those images that—while I love it—I've always thought I could have done better and came tantalis...

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Home time in London

Monday, 13th March 2017

Working in central London, I'm lucky to have iconic landmarks all around me. Working in central London, it's easy to forget those things are there as they become the repetitive backdrop to the dail...

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Gabriel's Wharf, London

Sunday, 1st October 2017

This week, I ran a small photo walk for colleagues at Funding Circle. As is often the way with free events, we went from 12 sign-ups to 3 actual attendees on the day but still had a lovely walk alo...

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Tate Modern ‘street’ photography

Friday, 3rd April 2020

Is there a name for street-style photography done indoors?I’ve written before about my regular trips to Tate Modern when I worked just over the river in London, both as a great people-watching loca...

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