Tuesday’s Photogasm
[This photo contains a lot of pretty photos. Just scroll down if you don't want to read stuff.]
Before your very eyes the format of this blog is shifting. Tuesday will now be, ’til the day I die, the day I forget to charge my camera battery, or the apocalypse, ‘Photogasm Day’ (I reserve the right to change the name at a later date if it no longer suits the image I am trying to project…)
Let me tell you about the new format for Tuesday!
First, I’ll link to the new installment of whatever photography project I’m working on — which is 52 Weeks at the moment.
Then I tell you how my current photographic projects are doing. 52 Weeks is going well! I think Abi and I are both surprised that we are a) actually keeping to the Monday schedule and b) still friends. There have been a few touch-and-go moments when she’s got all diva, but mostly things have been plain-sailing! For next week, I have a great homage to Halloween planned. All I can tell you now is that it’ll involve a large pumpkin and my face. It could go monumentally wrong. Those self-portraits you see at the bottom of the page may turn out to be the last known examples of what my face looked like before the Pumpkin Incident.
Next, to excite and tantalise, I’ll tell you about any upcoming photographic stuff. Which currently… is not much. I’m pushing my boundaries though. Pointing my camera at things I wouldn’t even have glanced at previously. I have promised a few local girls (I know that makes them sound like prostitutes, but they’re not — at least as far as I know) some portrait work. Or at least photos of them. Not necessarily portraiture. And I actually want to get out on the STREETS and take some photos there, the cut and thrust, the back-alleys. I suppose I should go into London to do that, or Brighton. There’s this whoooole area of photography (photojournalism, candid portraiture) just waiting to be… shot… and I’ve not done much of it at all — and I really should do more of it! You saw some stuff in the summer (the Ray Ban Kid), and a few last week, but other than that… not much. So you might see some pretty-local-girl photos in the coming days and weeks.
Talking of local, I also want to get some more of my photos hanging in nearby cafes and cinemas, or galleries.
And finally, in each and every Tuesday Photogasm, there will be lots of juicy photos: ones I’ve taken in the past week, or shots I’ve dug up from the archives. Enjoy!
Note: Some of these haven’t made it to Flickr yet. Consider them an ‘exclusive’. Also, in the bird photos, are those crows, or something else?
(This one came out really red for some reason… not sure why. It’s over-exposed I think, and not perfectly-sharp. Not that I’m complaining… it’s cool! The leaves in the top right are almost the right colour, incidentally.)
This last one is the first of my ‘50mm landscapes’ — an entirely new concept for me. Landscapes… but with a telephoto lens. Makes things feel more… compressed? Compact? More detail, less negative space. Incredibly hard to take too… but I think this photo proves that the concept works, so I’ll be taking some more!
And that’s this week’s Photogasm.
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I’d just like to say that I have not, nor do I ever intend to “Go all Diva”. It was you who demanded the doves and puppies.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:13 amI’d love to have some portraits done…but I’d feel like a bit of a fool, so I just take them myself…which isn’t as easy!
I like the pic with the fluffy little bird!
October 27th, 2009 at 9:41 amWhich one, Pink? Where the one on the left is ruffling himself?
You’re in Croydon right…?
At least I wasn’t the one demanding LANDSCAPE, Abi.
October 27th, 2009 at 1:05 pmLovely pics Seb.
October 27th, 2009 at 1:06 pmYes, that one!
I’m near Croydon ish… next door in Bromley!
October 27th, 2009 at 4:56 pmThanks, Eddy.
I have family in Bromley!
October 27th, 2009 at 4:57 pmYou do?! Small world Mr S..
October 27th, 2009 at 5:05 pmI like the red – makes it more interesting. could your white balance have been off? Very nice landscape – I enjoy shooting them with my telephoto lens as well (usually because that’s all I have on me – I normally shoot single subject photographs from afar. And no, I am NOT a stalker! Or the paparazzi!) See here to see what I mean, the first couple of photographs are a good example: http://nyxynotions.blogspot.com/2009/10/picture-monday_26.html
I dunno, I love shooting telephoto. Granted, it doesn’t afford you the same landscaping abilities that a wide-angle lens would, but that’s half the fun – trying to figure out and compose an image with certain restrictions. Usually I’ve found that the image turns out better and less boring
October 27th, 2009 at 6:30 pmI was just re-reading that comment, and realize I may have been a bit obscure. The first couple of photographs are a good example of my “usual” photography – that is, single subject. The one further down of the bay with the sunset and the ocean with the sunset are examples of landscapes taken with a telephoto.
October 27th, 2009 at 6:39 pmYour blog comes out fine on my iPod touch, adapted perfectly to the small display. So I can enjoy reading your interesting articles on the sofa.
October 27th, 2009 at 7:58 pmI’ve headed over to your blog to comment, Nyx! I had a telephoto lens on my first ever camera, but other than that… I’ve only ever used it for live music stuff really. This is the first time I’ve captured a landscape without a landscape lens.
The white balance is out on the bird shot — yup!
Beep — do you get the nice mobile skin thing for the blog? I checked it on a few phones, but not the Apple ones. It’s quite nice, if you get the mobile skin
October 27th, 2009 at 8:32 pmThose are gorgeous, for real. Makes me miss my autumns in New England!
October 27th, 2009 at 8:54 pmBeautiful! I will never see a fall like this in Texas!!
October 27th, 2009 at 9:38 pmI adore the landscape. If I wasn’t poor as fuck, I might buy it… It’s seriously that gorgeous to me.
October 27th, 2009 at 10:58 pmWoot. Glad to see you’re playing around with it. I once had the opportunity to meet a *fantastic* photographer, and he said something to me that’s stuck – a lens is a lens. What makes it good is what you do with it.
At the time I thought him horribly conceited and full of himself…but hey, when you’re right you’re right, and gotta say…he was right.
October 27th, 2009 at 11:57 pmThank you… all of you! I am blushing furiously now. I am overwhelmed with emotion… perhaps because it’s late, or because of the blog post I just finished, hm…
If you have something to trade a photo for, MinD, email me…! Or just remember me when you do eventually MAKE it!
Nyx — in my opinion it’s more ‘you’re only as good as your tools’. Certainly, an awesome photographer can get more out of a shitty lens than a bad photographer. But a good lens is… well…
It’s the difference between a guy with a skinny penis, and a guy with a chubby one.
October 28th, 2009 at 2:31 am