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AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantFebruary 23, 2021

Thinking in Black and White

  Colour vs Black & White is not something that I have bothered with for a long time.  For years now, I have worked exclusively in Colour, but Covid and being in lockdown has had me exploring my archive a little and thinking about the images that I make. So I have been experimenting recently with …

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Posted in Making new images, On Photography

AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantNovember 9, 2020

Impulse purchase

I recently decided that the lens in the middle, a Nikon 24-70 f2.8 while really useful with its fantastic quality and versatility is a little big for carrying around on the Nikon D850. For this reason I have for some time used the wonderful little Voigtlander 40mm f2 lens sitting next to it. As it is …

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AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantFebruary 21, 2020

My Photographic Heros no 13: Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange What I learnt from Dorothea Lange For social documentary photographers on the the icons is Dorothea Lange, we have studied her images and her work on documenting communities that where not highly visible is impressive. For example, her work documenting the lives of Japanese internees during the second world war is really good. she tackled …

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Posted in Inspiration, On Photography, Photographic Influences, PhotographyTagged Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Social Documentary photography

AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantNovember 5, 2019

11 months and not even one blog post…..

I 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 …

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Posted in Henley Royal Regatta, Michael Wayne Plant, Street Photography, Workshop

AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantJanuary 23, 2018
Lily Gwynne-Thomas photographic portrait by Michael Wayne Plant

Finding your own voice

Developing 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 …

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Posted in Inspiration, Photographic Influences, PhotographyTagged Creativity for photographers, Developing photographic style, Developing your vision

AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantDecember 27, 2017
London Street Photography By Michael Wayne Plant

New Year’s resolutions

Hi 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 …

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Posted in Inspiration, Making new images, Marketing, Off topic subject, Photography, Photography TalkTagged New Year’s Resolutions

AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantNovember 20, 2017

Raw conversion software comparison

Raw 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 …

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AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantNovember 13, 2017
City of London Street Photography By Michael Wayne Plant

Why Use Street Photography

“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 …

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Posted in Photography, Process, Street Photography

AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantNovember 6, 2017
City of London Street Photography By Michael Wayne Plant, Documentary Style Street Photography,

Documentary Style Street Photography

An 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 …

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Posted in Documentary, Making new images, On Photography, Photographic Education, Photographic Influences, Photography, Process, Street Photography, Theory

AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantOctober 30, 2017
Walker Evans & Company

My Photographic Heros no 12: Walker Evans

Walker 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 …

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