tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70253635697205575042024-03-18T04:02:51.512+01:00Tim Everett Photographer BlogspotAll things photographyTim Everetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563062097654360815noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025363569720557504.post-63755198357888196152024-02-17T00:53:00.006+01:002024-02-23T01:56:44.920+01:00'It takes every kinda people'<div><p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">My next exhibition, a collection of my Street portraits old
and new, (mostly new) Including the girl with the butterfly eyes selected by the editors at
Lensculture portraits awards 2024 to feature in their online gallery. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">When I’m out on the streets with my camera, as well as
general street photography, I am always looking out for interesting characters,
people that stand out and catch my eye, and I enjoy engaging
with them in the process of making portraits. These are a collection of them taken over a period of
approx 10 years up to the present, its constantly updating. I have a lot more
but I have chosen 40 to put together a strong exhibition, maybe a book too depending
on funding. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dy93dDguuwZfXF26_RSNBJhAYjWz72oBHAb4uncgDBWAhEgPL8kz4gck6qn6itwC8MOQH44Ly7GNcnFYgD4Ng' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">All photo's © Tim Everett Photographer</span></p></div><div><p></p>
</div>Tim Everetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563062097654360815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025363569720557504.post-40199729056061377822024-01-22T23:02:00.003+01:002024-01-23T05:02:27.567+01:00Good news<div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>One of My entries for the Lensculture
Portrait Awards 2024 has been selected by the editors to be
featured in the online Competition Gallery. <a href="https://www.lensculture.com/photo-competitions/portrait-awards/2024" target="_blank">See it at lensculture.com/awards</a></i></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"Congratulations!<b> <b>One of the photos you entered
has been selected</b> </b>by our editors to be featured in the Portrait Awards 2024 Competition gallery, visible to
everyone who visits the website. The Competition Gallery is a highly curated
group of images showcasing the best photos"</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Top right image: The girl with the butterfly eyes </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyUamw1iNxxb2qpmMn5Vm9tc3HpO2P5100pgvPlj6E90XVHCMACq6UpXowaTMGtCG74Bx0zCWiQDG1oPSyzYy0YTBAHYVGm_mWjhn5QV9JLVowymuXgdk8of7eIBOHJcEjkd3V_bBsd9rU8T5wvPAmMONzJcZshMQRTgPz7ePfs6M5SzVn_RFu1Pc8pYQ/s1276/lensculture.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="644" data-original-width="1276" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyUamw1iNxxb2qpmMn5Vm9tc3HpO2P5100pgvPlj6E90XVHCMACq6UpXowaTMGtCG74Bx0zCWiQDG1oPSyzYy0YTBAHYVGm_mWjhn5QV9JLVowymuXgdk8of7eIBOHJcEjkd3V_bBsd9rU8T5wvPAmMONzJcZshMQRTgPz7ePfs6M5SzVn_RFu1Pc8pYQ/s320/lensculture.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMvAfRrqR4MtlbpoQZWz0X0g7lY1gMHVrJCLpFUFFTC4x4sqzvGEOwVrieD3W8Xa_ng23CiUQK8sLy2D9TF6MRX2C3m8WoLE670N4VUXSoe2SvqRamoyY7_jgH4kIlD2WPqDClV0JFdl6MvaGgPs9vlcx9uY67y2vASqWo5R2XCuvJcjGk4gynt2sPQ_I/s1080/12a8ce5f-c0a7-4678-8019-71a69df68d65.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1080" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMvAfRrqR4MtlbpoQZWz0X0g7lY1gMHVrJCLpFUFFTC4x4sqzvGEOwVrieD3W8Xa_ng23CiUQK8sLy2D9TF6MRX2C3m8WoLE670N4VUXSoe2SvqRamoyY7_jgH4kIlD2WPqDClV0JFdl6MvaGgPs9vlcx9uY67y2vASqWo5R2XCuvJcjGk4gynt2sPQ_I/s320/12a8ce5f-c0a7-4678-8019-71a69df68d65.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Not bad considering its a world wide competition</span><br /></div><div><p></p>
</div>Tim Everetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563062097654360815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025363569720557504.post-35522499225760627312023-12-30T01:01:00.003+01:002023-12-30T01:59:06.185+01:00From the Lumix LX100<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb3VZ5Mb4bn-C2-r-0PMxG_SVa_65FS4d03PPzom-xl52gWMirchE551aZctwL07nWXJzzXAb-k2845T4EN6qKOcvB3jTJH4hufBNCuutfQ1bzUPcA6GlaWrATVVV2b5hZffwiBRFPaN24rxXf3iiUXKr5N9n_T005HxB3cwndYH0YqtOXS9jMxEOA6JI/s1200/biscuitmarina3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="803" data-original-width="1200" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb3VZ5Mb4bn-C2-r-0PMxG_SVa_65FS4d03PPzom-xl52gWMirchE551aZctwL07nWXJzzXAb-k2845T4EN6qKOcvB3jTJH4hufBNCuutfQ1bzUPcA6GlaWrATVVV2b5hZffwiBRFPaN24rxXf3iiUXKr5N9n_T005HxB3cwndYH0YqtOXS9jMxEOA6JI/s320/biscuitmarina3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hull Marina,
East Yorkshire, UK.
One I made earlier with the aforementioned Panasonic Lumix LX100. A camera also
known as the Leica Typ 109 (strange name for a camera) the Leica dlux 7 and
the Lumix LX100 mk2. All more or less the same camera, the “improvements” in
the LX100 mk2 IMO are gimmicky and irrelevant. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <a href="https://timeverettphotography.blogspot.com/2018/12/lx1002-upgrade-that-wasnt.html" target="_blank">The "upgrade" that wasnt <br /></a></span></span></p>
Tim Everetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563062097654360815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025363569720557504.post-9040582117289069362023-12-19T22:43:00.005+01:002024-01-23T00:54:04.389+01:00Reasons to be cheerful part one<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0SBMRw-HZbY08ERIDQ4nltzGH_dFGaR1BfV53lCGZKjkP6f4EZnpx3FMUH80z8AZri9CvVq8IQ0LVILNvTAUksA-tFGe6376W4_VzZrXhJfTCb_GrpUWNVms9zDW0ars2g-iXt326PtVPtwHUKoQqUD5aXcijVkidLfXRFYohxz0ryf_xSHVCajXdTZQ/s4032/PXL_20231217_122934817~2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0SBMRw-HZbY08ERIDQ4nltzGH_dFGaR1BfV53lCGZKjkP6f4EZnpx3FMUH80z8AZri9CvVq8IQ0LVILNvTAUksA-tFGe6376W4_VzZrXhJfTCb_GrpUWNVms9zDW0ars2g-iXt326PtVPtwHUKoQqUD5aXcijVkidLfXRFYohxz0ryf_xSHVCajXdTZQ/s320/PXL_20231217_122934817~2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Mirror mirror on the wall which is the best camera of them
all, the right answer is of course whichever you prefer, because for years now
most cameras are capable of producing good quality images, even some phone
cameras! But I thought I would put my thoughts in writing because I often get
asked why I don’t like mirrorless cameras, its not that I don’t like them, it’s
just a matter of preference, and here’s why…</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Firstly coming from the pre digital era, I have in the past
used big bulky 35mm film cameras like the Canon EOS 1N with booster attached,
(yes I know smaller 35mm cameras are available, I’ve used and had many
different cameras over the years) I prefer the look, feel and handling of a
DSLR, to me it resembles what I would describe as a real camera.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I much prefer an optical, see through the lens, 100%
coverage viewfinder, its clear and precise and what I see I know I will get in
the frame as I don’t like to crop my images, I prefer to use the whole data and
resolution etc available, and I love the skill, discipline of getting it right
at the time of taking. People with mirrorless cameras often show me how “great”
the EVF is…sorry but I’m not seeing anything better, if anything it often looks
worse! <span> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Batteries last longer, I’ve not even purchased a spare
battery yet for my Canon 7D because it lasts so long! </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lenses are cheaper, because everyone follows fashion, (I
have always been a dedicated unfollower of trends and fashions) and must have
the latest whatever, you can get some fine lenses for DSLR’s at cheap prices. I
have an array of very good lenses which I like and rate, can’t see the point in
spending a small fortune for more expensive lenses for a mirrorless system? I’m
not even really interested in “full frame” cameras for the same and other
reasons. Btw, I always shoot full frame because I don’t crop! Whereas most
people I know who use “full frame” cameras heavily crop their images…ergo they
are not shooting full frame! </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Image quality, (read my first paragraph) people who use
mirrorless seem to think the IQ is much better, again I’m not seeing it! I know
plenty of people who use them and when I look at their images I’m not
seeing anything better regarding image quality, don’t take my word for it, look
for yourself @ <a href="https://www.instagram.com/streetshootertim/" target="_blank">streetshootetim</a>. Having said that what constitutes a great image
has little or nothing to do with image quality. And an average, boring image
taken with the best equipment money can buy is still going to be an average,
boring image! </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">All my images @ <a href="https://www.instagram.com/streetshootertim/" target="_blank">streetshootertim</a> were taken with an APS-C sensor
DSLR or my Lumix 4/3rds sensor compact camera, something I like to use for
travelling light, which does happen to be mirrorless 😄 but ironically for a
compact no pop up flash, in order to accommodate the sensor and lens, larger
than your average compact. <span> </span><span> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Pop up flash, the pop up flash on the Canon 7D is very good…
for a pop up, I often find myself using it for street portraits. Something you
don’t get on mirrorless cameras, some might do I’m not familiar with every
camera on the market, but most mirrorless cameras don’t have an inbuilt pop up
flash, apart from compact cameras. As I said the Lumix LX100 doesn’t have a pop
up flash, but I’ve got a good Olympus flash that matches
up well with it after a little modification. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">All things considered… why on earth would I ditch something
I prefer for something a lot more expensive and for something that I don’t
prefer! And that’s not going to
benefit me artistically or any other way, only I can create better images not
the camera. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The art of photography is fast becoming the art of “my
camera is better than yours” or the art of focusing on the equipment over and
above any other considerations? I dread to think where its all going,
especially with this AI tech, will cameras of the future suggest better framing
your image, alter and enhance it to such an extent that the person operating the
camera might become redundant!?! <span> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I would go so far as to say that there’s so many variables
at play, peoples experience in processing being the obvious big one (I always
shoot in raw, I enjoy processing raw files and it gives me all the dynamic
range I need) but lots more variables too, that in fact it ALMOST makes the
equipment side irrelevant! Personally I couldn’t care less what someone uses or
doesn’t use, I only wrote this because I often get asked about it. Show me the
results, at the end of the day that’s all that matters, its irrelevant how you
got there. If anyone asks me what camera I use I feel like yawning! And simply
reply with “my eyes” </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNbTDMaWqAfPUJrwJcxS8a3eVcqVF-4Z7eox_55ZcROGH5toZYKh-XErZCNpUGVY1Y-HyVjX7Vtsckyy_VCUJJuvHPXALyaq2N9KzGUYExX_eezCuJvd01hNZe4a8JEU0AffKgMAhGBIqLSaYWljBn4Y4tYhNSMiR38EA3neNiHCxfVh43tMCW6ydyOPw/s3500/PXL_20231217_122455640~3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2833" data-original-width="3500" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNbTDMaWqAfPUJrwJcxS8a3eVcqVF-4Z7eox_55ZcROGH5toZYKh-XErZCNpUGVY1Y-HyVjX7Vtsckyy_VCUJJuvHPXALyaq2N9KzGUYExX_eezCuJvd01hNZe4a8JEU0AffKgMAhGBIqLSaYWljBn4Y4tYhNSMiR38EA3neNiHCxfVh43tMCW6ydyOPw/s320/PXL_20231217_122455640~3.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p>
Tim Everetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563062097654360815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025363569720557504.post-71267533771194806682023-10-23T15:12:00.002+02:002023-10-23T15:34:30.032+02:00Online reviews & Hull Fair<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm7_dV9CCpzcOE3XM9rbTHsm9EQ4R8yr3me2t8BwZsq6fb_G5eV_NP_0Gv18wiHMg1h3oYnkDq6vBYakxh_vtL1FDCq_wolsgt4MwC1BCPLkb1WscJHqn1HoNJ_Wxd40cPBS20E95SVAFdhu5x58bS5CcsU06xxuPI9EmCg0eFwMuIuU495AiQVNTSvUE/s800/hfair223bw.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="800" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm7_dV9CCpzcOE3XM9rbTHsm9EQ4R8yr3me2t8BwZsq6fb_G5eV_NP_0Gv18wiHMg1h3oYnkDq6vBYakxh_vtL1FDCq_wolsgt4MwC1BCPLkb1WscJHqn1HoNJ_Wxd40cPBS20E95SVAFdhu5x58bS5CcsU06xxuPI9EmCg0eFwMuIuU495AiQVNTSvUE/s320/hfair223bw.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: normal;">Thought I would try the
Sigma 17-50mm f/2.8 EX DC OS HSM lens having used the older incarnation for a
while, initially I was put off it by people online saying that it makes a
rattling noise as if parts are loose inside and that the AF is noisy…I
sometimes wonder about these people, have they got a bad case of OCD? In real
world use its not an issue, the AF noise isn’t noisy at all, I barely notice
it? And in every day normal handling of the lens I don’t hear anything unusual?
Don’t know about you but I don’t hold a lens up to my ear and start rattling it
about, looking for a problem that’s not there! And it’s a fine lens, love it.
Pin sharp wherever you focus on, and I love the fact its f2.8 throughout the
zoom range, it operates not unlike a prime lens! I took this at Hull fair in
low light, ISO 400, f5.6, 1/125s on my Canon 7D, and I didn’t even have the IS
switched on! Take reviews of equipment online with a pinch of salt (unless you
hear it from me 😂) you don’t know how experienced or competent these people are
and the internet, especially Utube is awash with self appointed experts. I once
fancied trying an old Canon EF 35-135 lens from film days on my crop sensor,
everyone online was saying its pants, I got one anyway, absolutely nothing
wrong with it! Quite a good lens for what it is. The main thing is to learn how
to get the best from your equipment, after that its all about the Art. Unforunately the art of photography is becoming the art of my camera is better than yours! </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: normal;">”The photographer is the instrument not the
camera” – Eve Arnold. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: normal;">Photography wise the fair is getting boring for me, I never see anything new or different, even the rides are in the exact same spot. In fact I find it an assault on the senses, and not in a good way, but in a crass, vacuous way. There seemed to be a glut on all things Octopus this year?, 2023. Even as a kid I didnt really get it. My old Ma says I would never go on any rides, the best part for me was seeing all the varied stalls down Walton street (they look indistinguishable now) getting a goldfish in a plastic bag, a bow and arrow set, or a crossbow 😂 As toys they were pretty effective and fun...for a kid. We couldnt wait to get out the following day to get up to mischief playing with them. Ethics and political sensibilities together with addiction to screen time has taken away real fun for todays kids, IMO. <br /></span></span></p><p></p>
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Tim Everetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563062097654360815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025363569720557504.post-91855391535301387312023-08-25T23:00:00.001+02:002023-08-26T02:58:32.240+02:00Two very different portraits.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieeZp34EI8Mwi5y4OwRRrk7uuHmq1bUUmTCnzPROBxNY-wehIZ3sSEuFaA0nUbnI8Av9cLOmXWQhoPdCrfng65rIr6qXDPCzgcPwRoMXjDXF3zCJR37TekEnylfxDVnLU-Vi3ISNN_gw9jL4jl7MgO2NfhPqBeHdzqJ5FHZxqO_AohR-0Kv9ne_woUcxQ/s800/feetbw.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="535" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieeZp34EI8Mwi5y4OwRRrk7uuHmq1bUUmTCnzPROBxNY-wehIZ3sSEuFaA0nUbnI8Av9cLOmXWQhoPdCrfng65rIr6qXDPCzgcPwRoMXjDXF3zCJR37TekEnylfxDVnLU-Vi3ISNN_gw9jL4jl7MgO2NfhPqBeHdzqJ5FHZxqO_AohR-0Kv9ne_woUcxQ/s320/feetbw.jpg" width="214" /></a></div><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">From my recent stay in London,
one of my favourite places for street photography, obviously a bigger city
makes for more opportunities to get good street shots. Though I have had one or
two, or three good ones from my Home town of Hull
in East Yorkshire, but I just love the vibe in big
Cities, I kind of feed off the energy of it all. I saw this homeless guy
begging in Central London, I know there’s many hustlers
and chancers who spin a yarn but this guy seemed genuine to me, if not he puts
far more work into it than whatever he gets from it! I watched him for a while
from a distance and was incredulous to see some people blatantly filming him on their phones
like he was some kind of tourist attraction! I was thinking how to approach it
and decided to just show just his feet and the sign, which was all that was needed
really. I did talk with him and asked if I could get him anything, he asked for
a hot chocolate drink, I got him one and left a few quid for him too. In the
words of … “When I see a man like this sat in a shop doorway cold and freezing.
There’s no way I’m going to walk past him without making a statement” – Don McCullin.
Only he was talking about Whitechapel in the 70’s, this is from central London
in August, 2023! </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">This one, below, is a bar worker taking a break in Soho. The reluctant poser, she didn’t want me to capture her image and I had to give
her some chat to let me take it. I couldn’t let it go, loved the colours going
on here, reminded me of a classic painting, she had a real cigarette too, it's
usually all vaping now. I had planned to have a wander around Soho and
before I went came across this book ‘London after dark’ by Geoffrey Fletcher,
which had a chapter on Soho, it’s a great read full of gems about all the old haunts
and its characters, with some fantastic full page illustrations. I took it as a
good omen, confirming my idea. Over 4 days I took approx 30 images, and will
use less than half that. Though I save them all, I find editing as in choosing
work to show is a skill in itself. Check out my instagram page @
streetshootertim for the rest. Btw, Geoffrey Fletcher is the guy who also wrote
‘The London nobody knows’ which was made into a short film, narrated by James
Mason. <span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjGGI9N2D3oDLeDdRaz06U0IuwdBNlDL-4R2mzfgYFjeLNM4LQzMCSWDjKNij69SRGrh_Ys2ZIqPooWtr8VpG7j05IGpmE83BxPGdnHjG2lcVOdmy52TgXiEKUAcAPg2ZUGxEKpbVyMvGP3HoGDxOfktX42ozFBBfScqMmBmVr_bmWDFXGC6DqVUOiAm8/s800/barworkersoho.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="535" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjGGI9N2D3oDLeDdRaz06U0IuwdBNlDL-4R2mzfgYFjeLNM4LQzMCSWDjKNij69SRGrh_Ys2ZIqPooWtr8VpG7j05IGpmE83BxPGdnHjG2lcVOdmy52TgXiEKUAcAPg2ZUGxEKpbVyMvGP3HoGDxOfktX42ozFBBfScqMmBmVr_bmWDFXGC6DqVUOiAm8/s320/barworkersoho.jpg" width="214" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
Tim Everetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563062097654360815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025363569720557504.post-49530256934677452242023-07-20T23:27:00.000+02:002023-07-20T23:27:57.366+02:00Cool girl<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX2KFbFj0UFQQLu48ZAQL-juNDJt-NtDGg2cQx3O0eGLnJS0D-wkVp4aEMbu7sHL_nRGXvl1jZqXQzdI9Cz54QUPQjNh8fUEQR5DB7nRPUdHIE3BeRnSHY3XYerD5uS3UhIEZjx4DVCIFk5ZT8NDMGpzxWsLMQehyw0MhyjIscRmXK7Qkh1pf95Osw82k/s800/coolgirl4blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="534" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX2KFbFj0UFQQLu48ZAQL-juNDJt-NtDGg2cQx3O0eGLnJS0D-wkVp4aEMbu7sHL_nRGXvl1jZqXQzdI9Cz54QUPQjNh8fUEQR5DB7nRPUdHIE3BeRnSHY3XYerD5uS3UhIEZjx4DVCIFk5ZT8NDMGpzxWsLMQehyw0MhyjIscRmXK7Qkh1pf95Osw82k/s320/coolgirl4blog.jpg" width="214" /></a></div><p></p><p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I spotted this cool girl in the town today, (20/7/23) it would have
been criminal not to get a portrait of her. She was just visiting from the Netherlands…I
knew she wasn’t local…1 she had a good command of the English language, and 2
she was way too friendly. 😂 Taken with my Canon 7D and a wide zoom, a Canon efs
10-18mm (I just happen to have that particular lens on as I had some wide shots
in mind) with the pop up flash popped up, something not available on full frame
Canon dslr’s or the latest wonder of wonders mirrorless. I always shoot in raw
for a variety of reasons, I end up with larger files for printing large if need
be, and why not capture all the data possible from the sensor to give you more
to work with, if need be. But I hardly needed to do much on this one, it looked
great straight out the camera, the raw file! Apart from a bit of vignette I
often like to apply (real photographers couldn’t care less about corner
sharpness) a bit of contrast and a bit of colour vibrance. I never crop my
images now, again I want the full benefit/resolution of the sensor, and I just
love the discipline of not cropping, I would rather use the right lens, move
backwards or forwards etc to get it right at the point of taking. Also even
when not cropping your image…in a way you still are cropping, the camera and
lens can only take a small frame of what’s available, the bigger picture…ergo
the very nature of photography is all about cropping. Yeah, it does make sense
if you think it through. </span></span></p>
Tim Everetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563062097654360815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025363569720557504.post-11583242033661474642023-06-28T12:53:00.005+02:002023-11-17T21:32:33.661+01:00Get some light on the subject<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgssrekU36mq_-LBjkYETFQ1UKV5f2L0rjCIjK2XtDBZ-T91pKMq7IiDBOSHrMR-CEhRZhElaIPQ0Xtw8axglAbWYo0wTHQlAMSrEwD0qlZtF524garqqzZeG9vuFwsLiTAMTnxDKwfAQRZZ2Swdn5cseljCPMxHI2pQmjPwH4ra2VVkTgtcrbI_EQg-Xc/s1200/bardive.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgssrekU36mq_-LBjkYETFQ1UKV5f2L0rjCIjK2XtDBZ-T91pKMq7IiDBOSHrMR-CEhRZhElaIPQ0Xtw8axglAbWYo0wTHQlAMSrEwD0qlZtF524garqqzZeG9vuFwsLiTAMTnxDKwfAQRZZ2Swdn5cseljCPMxHI2pQmjPwH4ra2VVkTgtcrbI_EQg-Xc/s320/bardive.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><p></p><p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I took this image recently, in a dimly lit bar, decided to
use the pop up flash on my Canon 7D, (something not available on full frame, or
the latest wonder of wonders mirrorless) and its pretty good…for a pop up
flash. It got me thinking about shooting in low light and using
high ISO, I hear photographers, and see online lots of chatter praising certain
cameras high ISO performance…great for certain genres of photography. As a
stills photographer mainly doing street/social documentary 99% of my images are
taken in daylight. And I suspect most photographers who rave on about high ISO
performance mostly shoot in good light anyway. The second image below, my old Mother on her tablet. Taken with a Sigma standard zoom lens at
f2.8, ISO 800, I just used rudimentary noise control tools in lightroom, and it looks pretty okay to me, acceptable. I
suppose I could always get the latest edition of lightroom with the dedicated
denoise tab, or I could get one of the dedicated low noise plug ins. Tripods
are also available, anyone remember those. 😆<br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The point I am making is all this chatter about high ISO
performance is pretty irrelevant in the real world, definitely for me it is.
Why would I want to spend a small fortune on a full frame DSLR, or mirrorless
just for something I hardly use, to solve a problem I and most other
photographers don’t really have! Obviously I appreciate people buy various systems for
varied reasons but I’m just talking about low light photography here. If money
was no issue I probably wouldn’t be making these blog posts on equipment? Maybe
I would just be spending lots of money on equipment that the camera sellers,
advertisers and the internet chattering classes tell me that I need?</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I don’t want to sound like I am against new technology, but
new technology is not always better IMO. I prefer the look and feel, handling
of a DSLR with an optical 100% viewfinder, and that pop up flash on my ancient 7D
often comes in very useful, even in daylight. I also use a Lumix LX100 compact
camera if I want to travel light and fast, it’s a very capable camera too, and no slouch in low light with its f1.7 Leica lens.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.panasonic.com/uk/support/discontinued-products/cameras-camcorders/dmc-lx100.specs.html" target="_blank">LX100 specs</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvHfgW-U8LkWxrkvZJpL0iipu9jNciddVsRwlEBgLDGffsx5QEowGFrpQOdH_Fy5CrDcoUChksIpAvMgHp7WZPs3oULMV7rXU-AMNUmQUrL8zPO9FWz0S3RNRwPMagia-PeLL3oR8AuQgT6XAdWxSRU5E_V_3B3VrdcmDNxTOuGEW9BK3t6xZDXhhEpgg/s1200/Malowlight.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvHfgW-U8LkWxrkvZJpL0iipu9jNciddVsRwlEBgLDGffsx5QEowGFrpQOdH_Fy5CrDcoUChksIpAvMgHp7WZPs3oULMV7rXU-AMNUmQUrL8zPO9FWz0S3RNRwPMagia-PeLL3oR8AuQgT6XAdWxSRU5E_V_3B3VrdcmDNxTOuGEW9BK3t6xZDXhhEpgg/s320/Malowlight.jpg" width="213" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> <span> </span></span><p></p>
<p></p>Tim Everetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563062097654360815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025363569720557504.post-32741267371388410632023-05-21T01:19:00.001+02:002023-05-21T01:20:36.955+02:00Interesting turn of events<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSdJ2ohRY1ij5L-vJ3h3KJ1oSzXSvq6uFQM5KL9P8nVi45qqmGTxl_8mGgS33PVr1JahfaV_Ohrb_Dtpax18aW6nPHT46bH90w72PJq1VraFkAH689ikFWT8u9iCvd0kFLGRCpSLVS8ggNZ0ZIQbUoplxjMBD-o2Mqx9XK16_1Mabsan-58-KSvnwJ/s800/naturalbeauty.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="800" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSdJ2ohRY1ij5L-vJ3h3KJ1oSzXSvq6uFQM5KL9P8nVi45qqmGTxl_8mGgS33PVr1JahfaV_Ohrb_Dtpax18aW6nPHT46bH90w72PJq1VraFkAH689ikFWT8u9iCvd0kFLGRCpSLVS8ggNZ0ZIQbUoplxjMBD-o2Mqx9XK16_1Mabsan-58-KSvnwJ/s320/naturalbeauty.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I took this street portrait a few months ago in Leeds,
actually in a shop. Her natural beauty caught my eye, thought she looked like a
young Audrey Hepburn. And the background also caught my attention, gives it a
surreal look, (HC Bresson was influenced by the surrealists in Paris,
it shows in his work) I couldn’t resist getting a few portraits of her. It
turns out she is the daughter of the actor Mark Jordon, Heartbeat,
etc. He reached out to me on Instagram asking if he could buy a print, and
praising my photography. We exchanged a few messages, obviously I didn’t know
him before then but he sounds like a very generous, genuine, good guy…”a great
eye you have, sir” he said. I love getting great comments/feedback from people who know
what they are talking about, people who work in the visual arts, I often get
really good comments from artists and good photographers saying things
like “you have an amazing gallery” it means more to me than hundreds of likes.
In fact Instagram is a bit of a mystery to me in that respect, I see some
really great photographers who hardly get any attention, or likes and I also
see some really mediocre, boring photography getting hundreds, thousands of
likes! What’s all that about?
</span></p>Tim Everetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563062097654360815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025363569720557504.post-60642450783516780992023-05-13T23:28:00.002+02:002023-05-14T15:47:31.128+02:00Back to basics<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0x0iEQmyI67zDg72VrmgEr43v30r5ma-Z9awEx2QhKJ1CiCFh3MXCwwdr2yCtjoGD90GmRCTO-F8oTL4_kJ_2Vi_RDXjY2qc-SwVjPoxzAhJFtcMWEgYgNn1VsBZ2rQcvLhnv1eePOG4cC1RndZtTwo-NgItyqcqONC1WGZjrSN4gQc8-qUAWKwH8/s3709/PXL_20230513_201143374~2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2557" data-original-width="3709" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0x0iEQmyI67zDg72VrmgEr43v30r5ma-Z9awEx2QhKJ1CiCFh3MXCwwdr2yCtjoGD90GmRCTO-F8oTL4_kJ_2Vi_RDXjY2qc-SwVjPoxzAhJFtcMWEgYgNn1VsBZ2rQcvLhnv1eePOG4cC1RndZtTwo-NgItyqcqONC1WGZjrSN4gQc8-qUAWKwH8/s320/PXL_20230513_201143374~2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When I went (mostly) digital I sold all my high end film cameras,
still got a few old film cameras though, and for some strange reason I often
get the urge to shoot some film. Just put an old roll of film from my fridge (food stuffs are available too 😃) in
this little gem, an Olympus OM1. The viewfinder looked a bit hazy, I was
struggling to distinguish what I was trying to focus on, someone suggested it
could be my eyesight, on the contrary…the reason I’m seeing what I’m seeing, or
not seeing is because I have good eyesight. I took the focusing screen out and
cleaned it with lighter fuel (it just evaporates without leaving any kind of
residue) using a cotton bud, but you need to be careful tiny bits of hair can
be left behind from the cotton bud, I gently blow on it afterwards to get rid
of it. I also cleaned the mirror with a lens pen/brush, same thing you need to
be careful as bits of hair can be left behind. The internal optics of the
viewfinder is clear, it’s in great condition for its age, been looked after,
used but not abused. Might replace the light seals when I get around to it. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
viewfinder looks clear now and I can actually see what I want to focus on. I
will share some images from it when I get around to it. Its interesting and fun
to sometimes go back to basics, with an all mechanical, all manual film camera,
I don’t bother with the meter, I like to guess the exposure when using old
cameras like this, its easy to do, and modern film has a wide exposure latitude
anyway. Once I scan the print to share online, from the negative or the
print…it becomes a digital image! So just cut out the middle man and use a
digital camera, which I do for the most part. I can understand the appeal if
someone is really into film, the challenge of making prints in the darkroom etc, a skill in
itself! But personally, I don’t miss messing around with chemicals and setting
it all up, give me the digital dark/light room any day. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTYKSJ9AzA8e1mElIWbayFOSGQh1vyh_RTACM0pFW-UFESvG5mjEoAAYctR72KsadzPUoBhAGsiWunzhjUuY7TcCTSFnsbYQtQxZGWwjXfjKRmhlGry1-LVV5o4nst9N7wjwYRKCBKpZ_F0OtnUAX0jEHHPEfwMojU6DQgvo5IwaZmmbpqX37a1oJL/s4032/PXL_20230513_201231312.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTYKSJ9AzA8e1mElIWbayFOSGQh1vyh_RTACM0pFW-UFESvG5mjEoAAYctR72KsadzPUoBhAGsiWunzhjUuY7TcCTSFnsbYQtQxZGWwjXfjKRmhlGry1-LVV5o4nst9N7wjwYRKCBKpZ_F0OtnUAX0jEHHPEfwMojU6DQgvo5IwaZmmbpqX37a1oJL/s320/PXL_20230513_201231312.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> </span><p></p>
<p></p>Tim Everetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563062097654360815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025363569720557504.post-25331671905943369032023-03-29T00:08:00.005+02:002023-03-29T00:13:58.732+02:00The BLG<p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I recently got this email from the Brick lane gallery, they
have contacted me a few times like this over the past years. Unfortunately,
they always want a wedge of money up front. Including cost of prints, travel to
London etc I wouldn’t get much change from a grand, I couldn’t justify spending
that amount of my own personal money on an exhibition, there’s no guarantee I would make my money back let
alone make a profit! </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Obviously they like my work, why wouldn’t they, there’s
plenty of what I would describe as mediocre photographers out there who get
pushed forward and promoted all over the place, I wont mention names, but I could mention a few who are over rated! But I have to wonder...how much
of the praise is genuine and how much is an exercise in a sales pitch?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">“Hi there,<br /></span>
<span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br />
My name is Melissa, I work for a contemporary art gallery in London
called The Brick Lane Gallery. We are located on one of the most artistically
renowned streets in London and we
are dedicated to giving a platform to new and emerging artists.<br /></span>
<span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br />
I found your work on Instagram @streetshootertim and loved getting a glimpse
into the different lives and scenes you capture through your documentary
photographs. I think you have an impressive body of work that would look
amazing in a gallery setting.<br /></span>
<span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br />
We have a <b>Photography Now exhibition from the 1st - 14th August</b> that
your work would be perfect for. The exhibition will bring together an eclectic
mix of photographers from all over the world. You demonstrate incredibly
impressive skills within your medium and we would love to show your art in our
gallery.<br /></span>
<span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br />
If you're interested please let me know and I will be happy to send you more
details and assist you through the exhibition process.<br /></span>
<span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br />
I hope to hear from you soon!<br /></span>
<span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br />
Kind regards<br /></span>
<span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br />
Melissa Morano<br />
Gallery Assistant” <br /></span>
<span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br />
The Brick Lane Gallery<br /></span>
<span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">216 Brick Lane | London
| E1 6SA</span></p>
<p></p>Tim Everetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563062097654360815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025363569720557504.post-50043509069495382912022-11-17T21:07:00.008+01:002022-12-26T20:42:45.085+01:00Is it really FULL frame? <p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]--><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">There must be tons of articles etc on the subject of full
frame Vs other formats, but I’m coming at it from a different angle, as in real
world usage. No doubt full frame is better in low light, and probably better
image quality. However there are so many variables at play that will
counteract this. But firstly, I can’t remember the last time I was struggling in the
dark to get a low light image, if I wanted to do some low light photography I would use my Lumix LX100 and a tripod, leaving the camera on ISO 100. With my
7D I don’t like to go above ISO 800, though 1600 is usable. Using my Sigma f2.8
wide open I have done some low light portraits and managed to end up with good
results at ISO 800. Most of the time I am shooting in daylight, or twilight.
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">People I know with full frame cameras tend to crop a lot,
even when they show me images on their screens it’s zoomed in, cropped. Ergo,
its not full frame! This practice also doesn’t make full use of various focal lengths...for
example if you crop an image taken with a 28mm, it might end up looking like it
was taken with a 50mm? One of the reasons I got a 7D was because of the 100%
viewfinder, what you see is what you get. I have gone right off cropping, I
love the discipline of getting it right at the time of taking, (right as in framing) and that
way it isn’t losing anything from the image in terms of resolution/size. So it’s
quite possible that images from my 7D are more “full frame” than some images
taken by photographers with a “full frame” sensor camera? Do the math.
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lots of other variables at play too, the photographers
skills, knowledge when it comes to processing, and the most important variable
of all is the photographer themselves. What’s the point of having a perfectly
exposed, sharp, top quality image of a boring, badly framed, uninteresting subject? And how exactly can image quality make said image any better?<span> </span>And how much “image quality” is enough? Is
there such thing as peak image quality? Probably yes, considering people don’t have
perfect vision. A foggy, unsharp image may have more artistic merits, be more captivationg than
something with excellent image quality…have you got the picture yet? (Pun
intended 😂) “The photographer is the instrument not the camera”
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Also most people these days simply share images online, and
hardly ever make any actual prints! Making all of the above meaningless! My
first dslr was a 6.3mp Canon 10D and the A3 size prints from it were beautiful
in terms of image quality (it was just a slow camera to use in terms of its
processing engine, especially compared to modern cameras) and I’m sure it would
be capable of printing larger than A3.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxof1zj0XfmeGjU9MwyPWK_WCG5a-xdUaAKVYAlQUA7uMj_qRq7YhEMoiEbeqerexjEIiW192Yh7z6cyQNZKq6N7YSuaPoFDJmL2M_ajKsWiz9L3gxM6dH7mDnZ5a6ixwjQjXWQZSSVyPWn_LSBOlBmTUwUEy4QKexhO0NFPwBZND1ThGyHsSFWDxz/s735/manny.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="735" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxof1zj0XfmeGjU9MwyPWK_WCG5a-xdUaAKVYAlQUA7uMj_qRq7YhEMoiEbeqerexjEIiW192Yh7z6cyQNZKq6N7YSuaPoFDJmL2M_ajKsWiz9L3gxM6dH7mDnZ5a6ixwjQjXWQZSSVyPWn_LSBOlBmTUwUEy4QKexhO0NFPwBZND1ThGyHsSFWDxz/s320/manny.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>I took the above screenshot from this guys Utube video on the subject, Manny Ortiz. Heres a link to it...</span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFncHWMuWX0" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFncHWMuWX0</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Heres another good video on the subject by Joris Hermans...<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOx3Y52EPNI" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOx3Y52EPNI </a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I like this one even better, by Craig Roberts, e6Vlogs<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJqtuf1VICw" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJqtuf1VICw</a><br /></span></span></p><p></p>Tim Everetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563062097654360815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025363569720557504.post-25258177222917678662022-10-22T00:29:00.000+02:002022-10-22T00:29:22.181+02:00London calling<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9AABXE5AHJaoXr9JX_LloJt0Gd5aP2LnF3-rGvrwCt-fb6ETr2B9zj96NRFdUoB-3BRCwm7HjgmXFj8Wc9VR0UPIT5YszfDziVT5AOGlEoXaUcrhcrSwOZyz5-PIs7dPKD_csEiw_uSlNOg5s1KRvSC0O3AMVCdTsK9l9LfBK0qX66Qe5_I1jtTnS/s800/sohogroove.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="800" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9AABXE5AHJaoXr9JX_LloJt0Gd5aP2LnF3-rGvrwCt-fb6ETr2B9zj96NRFdUoB-3BRCwm7HjgmXFj8Wc9VR0UPIT5YszfDziVT5AOGlEoXaUcrhcrSwOZyz5-PIs7dPKD_csEiw_uSlNOg5s1KRvSC0O3AMVCdTsK9l9LfBK0qX66Qe5_I1jtTnS/s320/sohogroove.jpg" width="320" /> </a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Soho street shot<br /></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A couple of street shots from my last visit to London
(Sept, 2022) I decided to take my Lumix LX100 compact just for the convenience
of travelling light. It’s a very capable camera (though just a tool, the
photographer is the real instrument) as long as you don’t start cropping. I’ve
gone right off cropping, I love the discipline of getting it right at the
moment of taking, which is in itself a form of cropping, you can only take a
small frame of the complete scene with a camera. The cropping and creativity
starts the moment you frame the image via the camera. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I only have one complaint about the LX100, the flash that
comes with the camera seems flimsy, not built to last and they often don’t mine
stopped working soon after I got it. After doing some research online I
discovered it’s a common problem and people are using an Olympus
flash unit as a replacement, the FL-LM3. But it needs modifying to fit and work
on the camera, the part of the flash unit that slides onto the hot shoe is too
long for the contacts to match up. There are some Utube vids of people using
sandpaper to take it down a bit, I thought there must be a cleaner, simpler way
of doing it. I used a sharp craft knife and simply scraped off layers until it
was a good fit, using the original flash unit as a template.
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It’s a lot better than the original flash, it also has tilt
and swivel capability which the original one doesn’t. I often like a bit of
flash for outdoor street portraits, as fill in light or just to make the
colours pop. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkkDLeTbdQOMaXc3NlT5kMhcUH89pkl9qhmQJ7U9D_R1rsyNDwk3LxD4A7T2UG65DXhjOw4NcoKEFEmiRmX82PRiHD7octNpVlrINoXDOsb1UTgrULhDR857vh33dNBeFL9LQ51ijcdcsRL9YajbA_vZmMtOMYQ4bEazcaXLfqaIElqWMAlq27QF_q/s800/oxfordstlondonbus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="535" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkkDLeTbdQOMaXc3NlT5kMhcUH89pkl9qhmQJ7U9D_R1rsyNDwk3LxD4A7T2UG65DXhjOw4NcoKEFEmiRmX82PRiHD7octNpVlrINoXDOsb1UTgrULhDR857vh33dNBeFL9LQ51ijcdcsRL9YajbA_vZmMtOMYQ4bEazcaXLfqaIElqWMAlq27QF_q/s320/oxfordstlondonbus.jpg" width="214" /></a></div> Oxford St<br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2OciayUYG0-lYwxoq02D9SN1_cYFPQRMNL-cRjTA_1NIr8VQDCLa2hHPlojg1_p1uN1C4XHyBl2rfjUv4QY0bOpD8f6pms3Las4zfn2xozpHzqYXNSQPur_mL-w5rYGzus7if7Dgdb9m9sVos6BaEIKGi9F2yM7Pde_hsGFOuu1xl945OjcISwaH-/s3675/PXL_20221021_215104908.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2932" data-original-width="3675" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2OciayUYG0-lYwxoq02D9SN1_cYFPQRMNL-cRjTA_1NIr8VQDCLa2hHPlojg1_p1uN1C4XHyBl2rfjUv4QY0bOpD8f6pms3Las4zfn2xozpHzqYXNSQPur_mL-w5rYGzus7if7Dgdb9m9sVos6BaEIKGi9F2yM7Pde_hsGFOuu1xl945OjcISwaH-/s320/PXL_20221021_215104908.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> My lumix LX100 with the Olympus FL-LM3 mounted on it, works a treat. </span></span><br /><p></p><p></p>Tim Everetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563062097654360815noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025363569720557504.post-1599384590529512742022-08-09T22:09:00.001+02:002022-08-09T22:09:41.831+02:00Images from pridefestival 2022<p style="text-align: center;"> <u><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></u><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi1r_s7U2iKi67MFIEYM-JiD7XJ-ezwCsauVknc5hkOJfhYj4RsOoEBAbSUE6wVJbnp8phMwjZn6A_w5oa97cWuShkMZbW5on5DzhEt4Fs3e0F1QE26y24yyInqoLMUwiots4u0R8wknAhGYJ6MQSHljuYrcdnTK1QyAKEoZIs6EYNAHeCVOEPNJ0L/s800/beardedlady.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="800" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilEV5hz6ehKB6r81OXxgbTakvP69hhrl-D9X_341garMHaONcrcvCI8dNPhYuH7Fq15AA_249QQ5n82DQYoDxbxOToZ7tnv9UdeEMy49FZi9T8A1Beb8XEDNPAgpU4uRPcNTU6revK8kcwMVzkcRYwwj5YaY7WLChIFUZPqD0w-9ZEKaFoc1RqjBNe/s320/gaydayhullbw.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A few images I took at the recent pride festival in Hull, East Yorkshire, UK. 2022. </span><br /></div>Tim Everetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563062097654360815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025363569720557504.post-72232400564547145072022-04-11T00:37:00.003+02:002022-04-11T00:47:44.714+02:00Documentary photography<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkpIJ6vpAsisSBCjjUO1p-teq8xkXjpZxP5geUTowDc-DIZy5SQrgWH9dqqpxg-CiRQ8Ya-iRgwcbDrufftGLLNZRawlNj_g3rQgwOw_pERQsVzLWrFyCKo75iAt8hFG02id5HYd_O12lH22SHwv43psmCL6UjKwWqkM8yK_Ydj3d012HEUChqd5Ow/s800/lshoes.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="800" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkpIJ6vpAsisSBCjjUO1p-teq8xkXjpZxP5geUTowDc-DIZy5SQrgWH9dqqpxg-CiRQ8Ya-iRgwcbDrufftGLLNZRawlNj_g3rQgwOw_pERQsVzLWrFyCKo75iAt8hFG02id5HYd_O12lH22SHwv43psmCL6UjKwWqkM8yK_Ydj3d012HEUChqd5Ow/s320/lshoes.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Knee deep in shoes, you just need to find a matching pair. A recent street shot I took in Leeds City market, one of my favourite places for street photography outside of London and NY City. You dont need to travel far to find poverty and people struggling in 2022, more and more will be looking for a bargain. Check out my Instagram for more, old and new @ <a href="https://www.instagram.com/streetshootertim/" target="_blank">Streetshootertim </a></span></span></span><br /></p>Tim Everetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563062097654360815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025363569720557504.post-90802266905982386532021-11-25T21:53:00.003+01:002021-11-25T21:55:48.972+01:00Street photography/portrait<p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lznL-9VGx70/YZ_3d1s7hxI/AAAAAAAAB1c/9LO0bldsRioYEJhqJ-DMOvbwQav2KQDnwCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/pilotportrait.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="427" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lznL-9VGx70/YZ_3d1s7hxI/AAAAAAAAB1c/9LO0bldsRioYEJhqJ-DMOvbwQav2KQDnwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/pilotportrait.jpg" width="214" /></a></div> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A recent street portrait I made. I thought he must be a jet
fighter pilot but it turned out he’s a Malaya and Borneo
veteran. I saw this guy from a distance…his fate was sealed. I liken my street
photography to being a hunter in the urban jungle, I stealthily moved in, while
adjusting the settings on my weapon of choice (In this instance a Canon 7D) and
like the prey of a tiger, they don’t know what’s happened until its too late.
But the people and animals I shoot live to tell the tale, and these images are
my trophies.</span></span></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">One I made recently with my Canon 40D and Canon EF-S 10-18mm
f4.5/5.6 IS lens, at the wide end, (16mm in 35mm film terms) I spent a few days
on the streets of London, images can
be seen on my Instagram account @ streetshootertim I uploaded this one to IG
but decided to delete it, thanks to IG degrading the image quality in the
process! I’ve noticed this happens with some images I post there? </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Cityscapes like this one, (though this could be classed as a landscape too) I
can and do appreciate great landscape photography…Ansel Adams comes to mind,
Don McCullin makes some cracking landscape shots too, he mostly does it as
therapy after witnessing and photographing war. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">But I mean... how hard can it be to get good landscape images in a
beautiful landscape? It can get a bit boring, you could probably give a monkey
a camera and it would get good landscape photos in a great landscape, maybe even
better as it could climb up trees etc 😀 I much prefer the challenge of street
photography, social documentary. </span></span></p>
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<![endif]--></p>Tim Everetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563062097654360815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025363569720557504.post-378563271691712712021-09-30T19:01:00.004+02:002021-11-02T01:09:31.907+01:00The original Canon 7D <p><span style="font-family: verdana;">J<span style="font-size: medium;">ust bought a Canon 7D, the original mk1, from <st1:place>Harrison</st1:place>
cameras of <st1:place>Sheffield</st1:place>, in excellent condition for £235…and
it is in excellent condition!, in fact it’s like a new camera! Can’t even see
any dust in the button recesses! With less than 2k shutter actuations! I have
been after one for a while but the ones I have seen thus far have been quite
battered, it puzzles me how they get so, unless its been used in a war zone? I
have been using <st1:place>Harrison</st1:place> cameras for some years now, its
rare I buy camera gear new, I did buy a new lens one time, oh and a battery
grip, that’s about it. <st1:place>Harrison</st1:place>’s offer a great service, their used items are checked by experienced, competent people and their prices are
better than anything you will find elsewhere, including eBay.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.harrisoncameras.co.uk/" target="_blank">Link to Harrison cameras click on this</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The main thing that attracted me to the 7D is the 100%
viewfinder, I often find I get more than I wanted when using the 40D, at one
time I was well into cropping images but I have done a complete U turn, and now
prefer to get it how I want it at the point of taking. The 7D has a few more pixels
which is of no consequence to me, the rear LCD screen is a lot better, though I
turn the review off and use it like a film camera, If I have been out of town I
will start going through my images on the way back while sat on the train, that’s when my
editing begins, deleting some, sorting out the wheat from the chaff, less is
the new more. Also I don’t want to waste time working on images I won’t use. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I think the focus system is a bit overkill, though I can
appreciate how sports photographers will like it, it has a great movie mode too,
though I am more into still photography. I have disabled the live view mode, an optical viewfinder is all the live view I need. Not had chance to use
it properly yet, but I’m already loving the feel of it, and that larger
viewfinder, reminds me of the Canon EOS 1N film camera. Its substantial like a
real camera should be, feels good in the hands. The pop up flash is impressive... for a pop up flash! I sometimes like a bit of flash for street portraits to
make the colours pop. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I have handled/used a few mirrorless full frame cameras (mostly
Sony) I just don’t like them, don’t like the look and feel of them. It’s neither
a compact nor an SLR, but somewhere in-between. I do have a mirrorless compact, a
Lumix LX100, which I like and is a very capable camera, but it’s a compact, and
I know it’s a compact, it will go in my jacket pocket, unlike the mirrorless, interchangable lens, full frame jobs. I considered getting one of the <st1:city><st1:place>Fuji</st1:place></st1:city>
X100 series, I like the retro, rangefinder style but I heard even the latest V
model can have focusing issues! How did they mess up the most basic thing on a camera, the focusing? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCT-YMgjm9k" target="_blank">Digital rev put a 7D through some challenges click here </a><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I will keep the 40D and still use it, it’s a great camera, and makes good quality images, how much image quality
does one need? Surely the actual image itself is more important, what’s the
point of having super image quality of a boring image? The Canon 7d mk1
could possibly be all the camera I will ever need? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Yes… full frame may have the "edge" on IQ over the crop sensor,
but I refer you to my previous points, and it may be better on low light
performance but the 7D is no slouch in that respect, and there is always those things called
tripods. Also I have some great lenses designed for the crop sensor which I
like. All this obsession with resolution and pixel count, full frame etc bores
me to death! Especially when most hardly ever make any prints, but just share
online, also when it comes to printing we are limited by the printers ability itself.
Even my 4/3rds sensor LX100 compact is capable of printing great looking LARGE
prints! If I ever do go full frame, and it’s a big if! It will be a Canon 5D
mk2 or the 6D. (I have not even looked into the newer R models, way too
expensive, maybe if money was no object) <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">"The photographer is the instrument not the camera" - Eve Arnold </span><br /></span></p><br /><p></p>Tim Everetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563062097654360815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025363569720557504.post-38259382366223731932021-09-11T20:31:00.001+02:002021-09-13T19:36:47.446+02:00Big Hair day<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Street Portrait </span></span><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hdP6SJQsado/YTzzvlD53PI/AAAAAAAABzU/EjXnbAtGsM86Fs6Upz_SIqAc8goLjqGRQCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/bighair.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="214" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hdP6SJQsado/YTzzvlD53PI/AAAAAAAABzU/EjXnbAtGsM86Fs6Upz_SIqAc8goLjqGRQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/bighair.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A recent street portrait, one I made today actually
(9/11/2021) saw this guy in my local town couldn’t let him pass without asking
if I could take his portrait, he was happy to pose for me and I ended up taking
a few. Shot with my Canon 40D and Canon EF 24mm f2.8 lens @ ISO 200, aperture
priority @ f6.3. I like this lens for street photography, on the 40D its close to a 35mm in full frame focal length
terms, (full frame for me means I didn’t crop the image 😀) its a similar set up to the Fuji X100 series, same size sensor and more or less same focal length lens, only the Canon 40D has a
focusing system that works. 😀 And I have the option to change lenses. Did I mention its a lot cheaper too. 😀 And I can give it a retro style look to match the subject, thanks to Silver efex... </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3gWeuGox104/YT-KkeVlPBI/AAAAAAAABzs/eTFz1venMYgrfC00Wmcphazdb-1z7Nk0gCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/bighair3bw.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="214" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3gWeuGox104/YT-KkeVlPBI/AAAAAAAABzs/eTFz1venMYgrfC00Wmcphazdb-1z7Nk0gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/bighair3bw.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Shot in raw mode, processed in Lightroom, b/w using Silver efex pro<br /></span></span><p></p>
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<![endif]--></p>Tim Everetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563062097654360815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025363569720557504.post-16863908299893255072021-07-04T02:50:00.003+02:002021-07-04T16:56:10.476+02:00Art V Camera<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I rarely see anything online about the art of photography,
everything seems to be about the equipment, more so than the actual imagery
itself, the content, framing, subject etc. I see people talking and discussing
all kinds of things from image quality, lens distortions, corner sharpness,
resolution, pixel count, high iso performance etc, (how often do you take
photos in dark caves?) I don’t know about you but if I go to look at a
photographic exhibition the last thing I’m interested in or looking for is any
of these things! I don’t take a magnifying glass looking for corner sharpness
or lack of! In fact I often like to put a vignette on my portraits, so what use
is corner sharpness, just pointless measurements nothing to do with making good
photography. And I don’t waste my time examining photos of brick walls looking
for barrel distortions either! </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]--><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> The internet, You tube etc is awash with self appointed experts doing reviews
about this or that lens, this or that camera…YAWN. Most cameras are capable of
taking decent quality images today, never mind looking for the next bit of kit
that’s going to “improve your photography” you could buy an old Canon eos 350D
for £40 with an equally priced Canon ef 18-55 lens and make good photography,
on the other end you could go and spend thousands on the latest kit but its not
going to give you great images, only you can do that, a camera is an inanimate
object, a tool. “The photographer is the instrument not the camera” – Eve
Arnold.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]--><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Yes, you need a certain level of technical knowledge/ability
but its not rocket science, digital has made things easier in that respect. The
most important thing is to enjoy your photography, do it for yourself no one
else, and we are all learning all the time, one could be a hundred years old
and learn something new, anyone who thinks he or she “knows it all” has already
lost, stay hungry! I’m more interested in the end results, the art of photography,
doesn’t matter how you got there, what you used. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Here’s a recent street portrait I did with my 15 year old
Canon 40D, and a Canon ef 24mm f2.8 lens from the 80’s! Which is more like a
35mm focal length on the 40D’s </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>APS-C size</span> sensor.<span> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: medium;">'The butterfly effect' </span><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-60-xirpEAWc/YOEEgm7T9fI/AAAAAAAABxU/Y_EwBZEarVMKj0jCrZAGhmacxvWazYf1wCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/buterflycc.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="800" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-60-xirpEAWc/YOEEgm7T9fI/AAAAAAAABxU/Y_EwBZEarVMKj0jCrZAGhmacxvWazYf1wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/buterflycc.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <br /><p></p>
Tim Everetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563062097654360815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025363569720557504.post-86519834616286700652021-03-07T21:58:00.006+01:002021-03-07T22:32:11.354+01:00Cropping? Resolution? Upgrade?<p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]--> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">To crop or not to crop? I went through a stage of loving the
cropping, I would see many images within images, btw even if you don’t crop,
you are still in fact cropping as the image is just a small crop of the wider
vision available to the eye. However I have gone right off the idea of cropping
my images, now I prefer to get it right, just as I want it at the point of taking. Cropping
reduces the resolution (especially when I’m still using a 10mp camera) which
could be a problem if I wanted to print large, also with cropping I end up with
odd sized images, which could also present a problem when printing and
presenting your work.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]--><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">It often amuses me when photographers talk about resolution,
pixel count as if it’s the most important thing, when most hardly ever make
prints, and just share their images online, so what does it matter? In fact when photographers start talking about equipment I often yawn and feel like walking away! My first dslr
was a Canon 10D 6.3 mp and the A3 prints from it were very nice, it’s rare I
print larger than A3 size. It was just a bit slow to use, I then got a 30D but
the actual camera felt small in my hand even with the extra battery grip
attached, so I got a Canon 40D slightly bigger and has a decent size and feel
to it. The 40D is an old camera now, but I’m still using it together with some
Canon and Sigma lenses. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]--><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">I’ve been having thoughts of upgrading, maybe getting a 7D
(I do like the idea of having a 100% viewfinder, as I enjoyed with my old 35mm
film cameras, EOS 1N etc) or maybe a Canon 5D mk2 or 3, but then I would have
to spend loads of money on lenses to take full advantage of the full frame
sensor, expensive! Most of my lenses I have now are designed just for the crop
sensor cameras. The 7D has the same size sensor as the 40D but with more pixels in it,
probably a faster engine behind it too, but I always shoot in raw, so
would I see much difference in the end image quality? And I don’t need video on
it, I am into still images also I have a Lumix LX100 which shoots 4K video. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]--><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">Some guy on instagram asked me what my “set up was” on one
of my street portraits, the same image I have posted here, I said an old Canon
40D and an old Sigma lens, it’s a nice lens, light and
compact too. I think he was a bit disappointed and was expecting something more
high end, more expensive, he unfollowed me after I told him, Haha. People
get too bogged down with the equipment and technical side, usually newbie’s,
they think its all about the equipment! Off course we all enjoy the gear side
to a certain extent, but the more experienced you become, the more you realize
its simply a tool, and the 40D is a tool that doesn’t get in the way of making
photos, and the image quality is more than adequate. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]--><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">At the end of the day it’s about the image, the content,
the framing etc, doesn’t really matter how you got there. Most cameras today
will take decent quality images, I’m not the sort of photographer who would
take a magnifying glass to a gallery with me to check out corner sharpness! who
cares about that boring stuff in the real world? Think I will stick with what I’ve
got for the time being, if money was no object I suppose I would be getting all
kinds of equipment to play with, maybe a large format film view camera and a
professional neg scanner, that would give you plenty of pixels! And the money I
save I could spend on travelling and actually taking photos, rather then
talking about equipment. <span> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Btw, here’s an excellent review of the Canon 40D by a fellow
photographer and blogger... <a href="https://photographic-central.blogspot.com/2019/02/photography-fundamentals-on-budget.html" target="_blank">Photographic Central Link</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CpjGbVmaRoY/YEU8btsAhYI/AAAAAAAABuQ/-uJcC_rZQxII3OCqREMi3TqU52nNapQYACLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Pam5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="800" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CpjGbVmaRoY/YEU8btsAhYI/AAAAAAAABuQ/-uJcC_rZQxII3OCqREMi3TqU52nNapQYACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Pam5.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span>Heres a recent one taken with my Canon 40D & Sigma 18 - 50mm f2.8 (throughout the zoom) EX Lens, at the long end wide open @ f2.8 iso 400. I always shoot in raw, process in lightroom, maybe tweak a bit in photoshop if needed. Often I find they need little work on them from what comes out the camera.</span></span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p>
Tim Everetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563062097654360815noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025363569720557504.post-16011798253739614372020-11-14T01:34:00.008+01:002024-01-24T23:46:45.443+01:00My Exhibitions<p style="text-align: left;"><b><i><u><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">‘Girl with the
butterfly eyes’</span></u></i></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">The editors at
Lensculture portraits awards 2024 selected one of my street portraits to feature
in their online gallery. @ lensculture.com/awards January, 2024.</span></p>
<p><b><i><u><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">'More then a
River' </span></u></i></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">1
& 2, two of my Cityscapes in the Summer Salon @ the Islington Arts Factory,
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">London</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">. 21<sup>st</sup> June to </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">12<sup>th</sup>
July, 2019</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">.
</span></p>
<p><b><i><u><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">'Street
Portraits'</span></u></i></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">
A varied collection of interesting characters I have come across during my
travels, taken over a few years in Hull, Leeds, London and N.Y. City @ my pop
up gallery in Hull City Centre. July & August 2018.</span></p>
<p><b><i><u><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">'</span></u></i></b><b><i><u><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">Lower Manhattan</span></u></i></b><b><i><u><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">'</span></u></i></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"> N.Y. Cityscape @ the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">Ferens</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">Art</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">Gallery</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"> Open Exhibition, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">Hull</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">. 17 February to </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">22
April 2018</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></p>
<p><b><i><u><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">‘River </span></u></i></b><b><i><u><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">Hull</span></u></i></b><b><i><u><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span></u></i></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"> b/w print @ The Ferens Art
Gallery Open Exhibition. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">21 January 2017</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"> to </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">12 March
2017</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">. (</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">Hull</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">U.K.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">City</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"> of Culture 2017)</span></p>
<p><b><i><u><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">'Street Life' </span></u></i></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">Capturing moments, a collection of
my street photography taken over the past few years in London, Birmingham,
Sheffield, Bradford, Scarborough, Leeds and my home City of Hull. @ The
Islington Arts Factory, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">London</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">. 6th - 27th May, 2016.</span></p>
<p><b><i><u><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">‘Spurn Point’</span></u></i></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"> a series of landscapes/seascapes
taken on Spurn Point, an area of natural beauty on the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">East</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">Yorkshire</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">Coast</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">. @ Artlink, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">Hull</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">. Jan, 2014.</span></p>
<p><b><i><u><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">'</span></u></i></b><b><i><u><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">Leeds</span></u></i></b><b><i><u><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></i></b><b><i><u><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">Canal</span></u></i></b><b><i><u><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">'</span></u></i></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"> Cityscape. Northern Arts
Uncovered, a collaborative show @ Gallery Munro House, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">Leeds</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">21 April,
2012</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></p>
<p><b><i><u><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">'</span></u></i></b><b><i><u><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">Leeds</span></u></i></b><b><i><u><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"> Cityscape' </span></u></i></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">@ </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">Leeds</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">City</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">Art</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">Gallery</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"> Open Exhibition 2005.</span></p>
<p><b><i><u><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">'Various
Landscapes'</span></u></i></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">
@ the Eich Gallery, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">George Street</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">Hull</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">. Part of the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">University</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"> of </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">Lincoln</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">. (Now the site of </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">Trinity</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">House</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">Academy</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">) 2003.</span></p>
<p><b><i><u><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">‘Poetry through
the Lens’</span></u></i></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">
this was a collaborative show with a writer friend of mine Brian Iles, I put
together my visual interpretations of his poetry, a series of b/w images done
on medium format film @ The Waterways Museum, Goole. 22 March-</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">30
May, 2003</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">.
Also shown at Hull Central Library & the Plowright Theatre in </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">Scunthorpe</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></p>
<p><b><i><u><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">‘Coast to Coast’</span></u></i></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"> various landscapes/cityscapes of
New York City & San Francisco @ Room 58, Exhibition Barge, Hull Marina. 4
June-</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">18 July, 2002</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></p>
<p><b><i><u><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">‘Images of the </span></u></i></b><b><i><u><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">Humber</span></u></i></b><b><i><u><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">some of my early works, a series
of b/w images taken along the Humber Estuary @ Sewerby Hall near Bridlington.
Nov-Dec, 98. Also shown at the Waterways museum in Goole, and some other venues
arranged via Artlink, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">Hull</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></p>
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<![endif]-->Tim Everetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563062097654360815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025363569720557504.post-38310869013005315782020-11-12T18:30:00.022+01:002024-02-23T02:28:37.906+01:00Short bio, introduction.<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">As an
experienced photographer I use it to express my artistic vision. I sometimes
indulge in City/landscapes. But my real passion is street photography/social documentary.
I exhibit my work in both solo and collaborative shows. My last exhibition (pre lockdowns) was
a collection of my Street Portraits @ my pop up gallery in Hull City Centre,
where it was well received, lots of great comments... "<i>I’ve enjoyed
looking at your photos more then a lot of art I’ve seen</i>" With street
portraits I'm often drawn to people living on the edges of society, eccentric characters etc and I enjoy engaging with them in the process. I have some new projects in the pipeline, depending on funding. </span><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span>
</span></span><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">For me street photography is
almost a form of meditation, while walking and exploring I get lost in my own
world and thoughts. I photograph anything that inspires me at the time, be it a
street shot, a portrait or a Cityscape. I don't like to over contextualize my work, it is what it is and I prefer the viewer brings their own experiences and interpretations, we all see differently. There is in my opinion an overuse of
contextual concern in visual Art, I appreciate its often important to the
subject but I believe any image or artwork should grab the viewer’s attention on many
levels, without having to
read endless and often pretentious contextual blurb in order to get it.</span></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span>"<i>Art
is not about something</i>, <i>art is something</i>" - Sarah Bernhardt<i>.</i> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span>
</span></span><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: black;">I have been inspired by all
the greats of photography, such as Henrie C Bresson, I like the surrealism
influence in Bressons work, Robert Capa, Eve Arnold, Weegee, Ansel Adams,
Sebastio Salgado, and Don McCullin to name a few. </span> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span><span>I use Instagram as an online gallery, all my new work can be seen there...</span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/streetshootertim/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">@ Streetshootertim</span></a></span></span></b><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><u> Contact info: </u><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">I am based in Hull, East Yorkshire, UK</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">Email: timev@gmx.com Phone: UK 07434317998 <br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p>
Tim Everetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563062097654360815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025363569720557504.post-58400533665285005452020-11-12T18:18:00.002+01:002020-11-12T18:44:26.399+01:00Street Portrait<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-33au8ZnS3Ws/X61tynCqP0I/AAAAAAAABpY/WPHuhnpNScAes0bL6MaL24MekNJeuK8AwCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/colorfulgirlchinatown.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="427" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-33au8ZnS3Ws/X61tynCqP0I/AAAAAAAABpY/WPHuhnpNScAes0bL6MaL24MekNJeuK8AwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/colorfulgirlchinatown.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span>One of my recent street Portraits, a colourful girl in China town, London. Late September, 2020. I vary my tactics with street photography, sometimes I engage with people, sometimes I just grab the shot and carry on walking. Obviously with street portraits one has to have some kind of conversation with the subject. I find most people are happy to pose. I used a bit of flash for this one as it was getting dark, and it helped to bring out the colours more. Taken with a Canon 40D and a 24mm f2.8 prime lens, on the crop sensor of the 40D its approx 38/40mm focal length in 35mm film terms, which I like for street work. Though I use various lenses, inbetween 24mm to 80mm range, I dont have much use for long lenses and rarely go beyond 80mm </span></span><br /><p></p>Tim Everetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563062097654360815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025363569720557504.post-78248233853250715542018-12-28T20:43:00.006+01:002020-11-14T10:46:01.309+01:00LX100/2 the upgrade that wasn’t.<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span>Been using a compact Lumix LX100 for a while
now, it’s a great solid camera, metal body, great Leica fixed zoom lens (24mm –
75mm in 35mm film terms) f1.7 and f2.8 at the long end, a nice range for street
photography, 4/3rds sensor large for a compact. The only negative thing I can
say about it is because it’s a fixed zoom there is a bit of delay in changing
focal lengths, no big deal really. But I don’t get the upgrade? Apart from a
couple of insignificant changes it’s the exact same camera! Same lens, same
size sensor, maybe a few technical tweaks to the sensor but nothing thats going to make any difference to the end result! It even looks identical apart from a minor change to the grip? One of the
“upgrades” is a few more pixels, but on the same size sensor so that means each
individual pixel is smaller, larger pixels are able to grab more light. It’s an
irrelevant “upgrade” to me? After processing raw images from the LX100 I end up with jpegs around
7 and 8mb more then big enough for large prints (how many people even make
prints these days? Most simply share on various social media) I rarely print
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</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span>My first DSLR was a 6.3mp
Canon 10D a crop sensor camera, and the A3 prints from it were beautiful, not all
pixels are born equal. I upgraded to a 40D only because the 10D was a bit slow in using, especially shooting in raw. I still use the 40D, it’s considered an old
camera now, but it made good quality images when it was produced and still does
today. "The photographer is the instrument not the camera" - Eve Arnold. An upgrade for me from the 40D would be a full frame DSLR but that would
mean spending money on more lenses, and I like the lenses I have now. But its </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span><span><span data-dobid="hdw">inevitable I will go full frame at some time.</span></span> Anyway back to the LX100 2, the other main
“upgrade” is a touch screen, another meaningless thing to me, why on earth
would I want a touch screen on a compact camera, or any camera? It might cause problems accidentally
changing settings? If I wanted a touch screen camera I could just use a “smart”
phone camera. I think the EVF on the LX100 2 is slightly better, but on a compact it’s just as
easy to use the screen for framing images. A real upgrade for me on the LX100
would have been a good dedicated lens hood, it does suffer from sun flare in
the summer. </span></span></span></span>
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