AuthorbyI have taken me a while to write my posts this year, I have not been able to think of much to say related to my photography or that which I want to share publicly, so I have been a bit quiet this year. I just realised that it has been 11 months since I last …
AuthorbyIt is Christmas Day and I am sitting around having Breakfast prior to helping the family get the roast dinner ready for a hearty lunch. I hope all of my readers have a wonderful holiday season and a very happy new year. I am looking forward to very productive 2019, my 2018 was not so productive …
AuthorbyThis morning, I was telling a photographer friend of a thought, that lead to a revelation in my thinking. On Wednesday this week, I was back in the City making images, walking and thinking as I walked though the streets of the City, which lead me to the thought of why I felt I was struggling to …
AuthorbyDeveloping vision as a photographer. I know that a photographer and their blog should have its own voice and I am guessing that mine does, that is for you to decide what it is. As I like most creative people have difficultly defining what is my own voice. That is one of the hard things of …
AuthorbyHi all, I hope your Christmas was good, New Year is next and with that comes New Year’s resolutions. What are yours? I know what mine will be: 1) I am going to edit my City of London street photography based project to see how far I have got with it. 2) I am going to …
Authorbyit is Christmas time and I want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I am looking forward to a great year of working on photography projects that are inspiring and exciting. See you all next year, thanks to those who have supported me over the past year, I hope you …
AuthorbyRaw Convertors for Raw image conversion I have been using a new camera for a while now for some of my street photography based social documentary work and I have recently become discouraged with the results that I have been getting out of my usual Raw convertor. I have been using Capture One Pro 9 which …
Authorby“Street Photography to what we recognise today … a documentary form that celebrated the candid public moment” Nick Turpin As a social documentary photographer you might ask, why do I use street photography techniques, in making my work. Why is it important to my practice as a photographer? Documentary photography is also a technique, which has …
AuthorbyAn approach to making work. Documentary Style, Street Photography. I think this term ‘Documentary style street photography’ is rather good at describing how I think about my own approach to making images, for my current project on the streets of the City of London as a street photographer. In writing about Walker Evans, I happened across …
AuthorbyWalker Evans Walker Evans was a documentary photographer, famous for working in the 1930’s his images helped to define along with Dorothea Lange what the Depression looked like in America. I originally learnt about Walker Evans as an influence on another of my heroes when I was exploring the work of Robert Frank, I came across …
