I am now away for a little over a week, so I’ve dug into my photo archives and set up some scheduled daily posts.
This first one is quite a commonly photographed scene; it’s the huge clock face in the Musée D’Orsay in Paris.
Canon 300D, 1/50sec, f/5.6, ISO 100, focal length 55mm
Cesc Fabregas’s shirt hangs in the home changing room at the Emirates Stadium. Maybe he will be the new star now that Henry has left, or will he follow him to Spain?
I was really pleased with the way the colours came out so strong on this shot.
Canon 400D, 1/60sec, f/2, ISO 400, focal length 50mm
Last week my company held a conference at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium, which was the perfect opportunity to try out my new wide-angle lens for the first time.
Top: Canon 400D, 1/80sec, f/5.6, ISO 200, focal length 10mm, cropped at top
Bottom: Canon 400D, 1/100sec, f/20, ISO 200, focal length 10mm
Watching the bands at the Carnival de Cuba.
Canon 400D, 1/125sec, f/3.2, ISO 200, focal length 50mm
The whole crowd was dancing along at the Carnival de Cuba, but I concentrated on close-ups; nobody seemed to mind me pointing my camera at them.
Canon 400D, 1/160sec, f/3.5, ISO 200, focal length 50mm
This is the drummer in an impromptu band at the Carnival de Cuba in Southwark Park last weekend. I think it has a very Cuban feel, and I love those colours in the woman’s dress in the background.
The image was slightly too dark, so I used the Exposure tool in Photoshop to make it one stop lighter. I also de-saturated the red slightly.
Canon 400D, 1/125sec, f/4.5, ISO 800, focal length 100m, cropped left and right
These blocks of flats occupy an area just to the back of Aldgate station; I like the composition they form.
Canon 400D, 1/500sec, f/4, ISO 400, focal length 29mm
I shot these bottles at Borough Market a couple of weekends ago… the light in there is very difficult to expose for and I only ended up with one or two half-decent shots.
Canon 400D, 1/100sec, f/8, ISO 400, focal length 70mm
I thought this scene had a very American feel; actually it’s in central London.
Canon 400D, 1/125sec, f/7.1, ISO 400, focal length 24mm
A cardboard cutout of somebody dressed as Chaplin, on a residential street in London NW1.
Canon 400D, 1/80sec, f/4.6, ISO 400, focal length 57mm
I try not to post too many shots of graffiti (there are several specialist blogs around), but I did particularly like this one. Again, it’s on the old Truman Brewery off Brick Lane. I don’t know what it signifies; I’d like think it’s a slogan associated with veganism, but maybe it’s a brand name or a band name?
Canon 400D, 1/400sec, f/13, ISO 400, focal length 24mm
Also from the old Truman’s Brewery, Spitalfields.
Canon 400D, 1/80sec, f/5.6, ISO 400, focal length 29m, some cropping
This Shepard Fairey / Obey poster is on the outside of the old Truman’s Brewery in Spitalfields.
Canon 400D, 1/250sec, f/11, ISO 200, focal length 24mm
Tower Bridge reflected in the window of an Italian restaurant on London’s South Bank.
Canon 400D, 1/500sec, f/6.3, ISO 400, focal length 50mm
At the moment, this building resembles a large cube balanced on a smaller cube, but eventually it will become the Cheesegrater. You can just see the Gherkin reflected in it.
Canon 500N (film), ISO 400
These buildings are in Chalk Farm Road, Camden, but the colours reminded me straight away of La Boca in Buenos Aires.
Canon 500N (film), ISO 400
I snapped this on my way home from work last night. It had been left on the seat opposite me. The sharpness isn’t great as the light on the train was poor and even at an ISO of 1600 I needed a shutter speed of 1/13.
I took the postcard home with me; it appears to be a ‘real’ postcard and not something from a travel magazine or newspaper and, in case you’re wondering, it shows Kovalam Beach in Kerala, India.
Canon 400D, 1/13sec, f/5.6, ISO 1600, focal length 70mm, vignetting added in Photoshop
This is the well-known bridge near Camden market; I waited for a bus to pass underneath to try to get a diagonal ‘half-and-half’ composition.
Canon 500N (film), ISO 400
I spotted this guy getting on a bus in The Strand, and thought it was quite amusing. He gave the impression that walking around with a parrot on your shoulder is an everyday occurance in London.
Canon 500N (film), ISO 400
Southend seafront early evening a couple of Fridays ago.
Canon 500N, ISO 400
And this is how Rossi’s (see previous image) promote themselves outside one of their shops — swing boards, litter bins and giant ice creams along the seafront.
Canon 500N, ISO 400
Rossi’s is quite a well known ice cream maker and seller in the Southend area of Essex. This is one of their kiosks on the seafront in Westcliff.
Canon 500N, ISO 400, taken with permission
Whilst out taking some shots in the Essex countryside the other day, I passed an isolated row of neat, terraced village houses. They struck me as very stereotypically English homes, summed up by the very English chimneys and net curtains.
Canon 500N, 1/350sec, f/4.5, ISO 400, focal length 50mm, polariser
Here I’ve tried to sum up the tourists that are nearly always to be found around Tower Hill station… top: taking a picture of the Tower of London, and bottom: at the Tower Hill Sundial.
I think this is a bit of a change from my usual style of shot; I’d like to try more of it though.
Canon 500N, ISO 200
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