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Today I met up with fellow photographers from the 100 Strangers Project on London's Brick Lane. After an early start and the expected fun and games offered by TFL's weekend upgrade programme, I made it in to enjoy an incredible day shooting street portraits with a fantastic set of people.
Having kicked things off Xtarsy and Bomvu, and after a couple of quick rejections, Julia kindly agreed to become Stranger #6 in my project. She was rocking a pretty bold look, which totally dominated the winter morning. We took a few shots in the middle of the road, with her quickly checking her eyebrows were symmetrical - which they are, on top of being dictionary definition awesome.
I'd intended to shoot everything with eye contact, and there's a neat shot from the session with Julia in the comments, but for the main shot I had to go for this peak across at the other chaps shooting their street portraits.
Julia - thanks for agreeing to be part of the project. I hope you like your shot and have an incredible week ahead of you.
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Julia (Stranger #6/100), London Brick Lane
Sunday, 3 February 2013
100 Strangers - Brick Lane - Sunday 3rd Feb 2013
Thursday, 31 January 2013
Continental Chic (Man, Newspaper & Dogs), Venice
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Quick candid shot of a Venetian local enjoying his Sunday paper in a strong winter sun, with fashionably attired dogs in attendance.
Hope everyone is having a fantastic week!
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Golden Host (Lion Of San Marco Detail On Gondola Ferro), Venice
Golden Host (Lion Of San Marco Detail On Gondola Ferro), Venice, a photo by flatworldsedge on Flickr.
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Another from my quick December trip to Venice. It's probably an inferior shot to the one posted previously (in comments below), but I keep coming back to it. Therefore, I thought I'd post it too and to hell with the law about posting excessive bokeh to Flickr.
It's taken looking up towards the Rialto bridge at golden hour, with a strident winter sun lighting up the bobbing Gondola blades - individually "ferro", so I guess "ferri" in a group?
Hope everyone is having a fantastic week. Looking forward to the 100 Strangers Project London meet up this weekend - hope to see some of you there!
Christina (Stranger #5/100), Rickmansworth Aquadrome
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This is Christina, who kindly agreed to be stranger #5 in my 100 Strangers project.
I was out in the snow, hoping to shoot a winter shot with a slight "fashion" feel. Christina was a great sport and, smiling, agreed to go for this direct, moody stare. My week since has been spent canvassing opinion on the processing - on the one hand I fear I probably over processed it a little in going for that "look", whereas on the other hand, everyone has liked the outcome.
She was in a rush to catch up with her husband and daughter, so whilst we didn't chat much beyond the quick shoot, I very much appreciated her delaying herself a moment to take part.
Christina - thank you for joining in. I hope you and your family had a fantastic time in the snow, and that you like your portrait!
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
Christina, Hilary, Chris and David - Aquadrome Portraits
I'm working on them all, yet will likely just post the first one of the day online as I don't want to overdo the snow in the series!
Just email me (at the address on the card) and I'll send the images over straight away.
Have an amazing week in the meantime!
Blea Tarn Storm Front (Langdales Vertorama), Lake District
This is a three shot vertorama of Blea Tarn, on National Trust land in the Langdales. It's another shot from my rainy day up in the Lake District over Christmas. Having driven up from Great Langdale I spent three or four hours up at the tarn, watching the light scroll across the landscape.
Assaulted by rain, sleet and hail, I had a heavy duty sandwich bag taped around my lens hood and back over the whole body and tripod. All good fun.
Two hours in there was a brief break in the rain, and a couple of minutes patchy golden light, then a sudden grey slide into darkness. This is from that moment. Originally I was set up just for the Langdales and the tarn, but when the colours appeared higher in the sky, I thought I'd have a go at a vertorama. That was created manually, first blending two exposures of the sky by hand, then cutting out the distant shore and dropping in the lake. Finally a manual "perspective" adjustment hopefully did the job of making the water look natural. The hardest thing was holding back thereafter - the colours are pretty much as shot.
If you want to see some proper vertoramas, I'd suggest you check out Peter Ribbeck's incredible photostream. He's a classy chap and his landscape photography is relentlessly breathtaking.
Hope everyone is having an amazing week so far!