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Thank you kind sir, I only looked at the result when I was eating my fish n chips, was quite happy how it turned out
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Thank you kind sir, I only looked at the result when I was eating my fish n chips, was quite happy how it turned out
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Sounds as if you had a lovely day out Shaun.
The picture is superb mate.
Thank you, yeah was a good day. Turned up to surprise my parents who were having a little break. Something quite nice about walking on the beach when there is a chill in the air. Although I'll take sunshine over that everyday
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Thanks to @shaunwistow for bringing some life back to the thread. I found these in the archive recently while looking for something else. Malaga - Leica rangefinder and film. Cheers - I.
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Loving the reflections, lots going on!
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Very good Iain. Reflections, reflected images, seem to be a regular theme in your work.
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Indeed B. - it endlessly fascinates me for several reasons. Any still image starts life as three dimensional objects rendered onto a flat plane. I have always enjoyed trying to alter this - and stack up the layers. Of this type of picture - the best for me are the ones that initially confuse the viewer. It might not be entirely obvious what we are looking at. It takes time to unpick the layers. It's also a technique that lends itself to surrealism - which I'm rather fond of in street photography. To find the unusual in the ordinary. The weird in the mundane. Another good trick is to - discreetly - include the photographer in the picture - that's another layer. The viewer can see me taking the picture they are looking at. On a more prosaic level - the pictures I posted that you commented on were taken in the middle of the afternoon in harsh, harsh Spanish light. It's good for very little other than turning shop windows into near perfect mirrors.
Madrid and Alicante - Leica and film. Cheers - I.
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Put the kettle on!
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Put the kettle on!
Ha ha P. I knew you'd get that. Yours - I.
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In a cab. Hong Kong.
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Nice H - the whole place looks like a building site? It very much looks like a colour city? - cheers - I.
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There is a lot of construction going on around, and obviously it's very colourful - so much that I ditched my b&w rolls the very first moment and ran around to find some Portra. Which wasn't hard, since film photography seems to be very much in trend - lots of very professional shops around.
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Evening H - I suppose in the sort of population density you get in the likes of Hong Kong the rebuilding process must be constant. I agree with you - if I had turned up there with just a bag of black and white I'd have realised my mistake immediately I think. Good to hear that you can get decent film easily though. Sounds like a healthy snappers environment all round. How were the locals with photographers? It just looks like that it's such a big city that nobody would care at all? - I.