I took part yesterday in a London Photowalk hosted by Daniel Davies.
It’s the first time I’ve done a photowalk and the reason I took part in this one was because of an interesting format for the walk.
Rather than walking about snapping photos, there were the following restrictions:
1) We were allowed a maximum of 36 exposures during the walk
2) We set the ISO at the beginning and it couldn’t be changed.
3) The display on the back of the camera was taped over so we didn’t know how we were doing
What made this interesting is that we’re taking the principles of film photography and applying it to the modern technology. By giving us these self imposed restrictions makes us really slow down and really think about our composition before taking the shot.
I knew it would be an adjustment (the last time I shot film was in college), and it was a bit more of an adjustment than I expected. I’m not one to waste shots as it is, but by restricting the exposures to 36 and hiding the display really emphasised this.
At the end of the 2 hour walk I was well under the 36 allowed shots, so I rushed the last few … and it shows.
I took 33 alltogether and we sat in the pub at Tower Bridge (we started at London Bridge) with hot drinks to thaw our frozen fingers while we reviewed the shots on a laptop.
If you’re interested in seeing my pictures, then click on either the top image or one of the images below
I received a commission a few weeks back to create an abstract picture for a hairdresser in Woking, Surrey.
I did an abstract for a shop last year and the people who set up this shop in Woking really liked it and asked if I’d do one for them in the same style.
The brief was that they wanted an image of the shop to be manipulated into an abstract image, but still recognisable. They also wanted it in bright bright colours to stand out against the stark white walls of the shop.
I spent about an hour taking the shots of the shop (night time) and had to use a couple of strobes to throw light across the sign in order to make the sign stand out.
Once post production was complete I did a selection of 18 images which the client shorlisted to 3 possibles.
3 sample prints were made and the final picked
I printed the picture last week on my Epson 9880 and left it to dry for a few days.
It measures in at 64″x36″ printed and 60″x32″ once on the frame
Once dried it was mounted on a gallery wrap frame and is now waiting for the client to pick up.
Here’s the image:
To see it in the flesh you can visit the shop
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Wych Hill,
Woking,
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