Tim Everett Photographer Blogspot: 2025

Thursday, 31 July 2025

Recent images

Two new images I took recently in London. July, 2025.

'Vogue' A colourful girl in East London, I liked the juxtaposition going on here. Taken with my Lumix LX100, because I like to travel light.

'Baggie smalls' Saw this character on Camden high street.

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

People often ask me how long I have been into photography. It's debatable when I got into photography on a serious level, what qualifies as a serious level? I know I was aware of it from a very young age as my old Dad (no longer with us) was a keen photographer. I remember taking some cool shots of my feet accidentally triggering the shutter while walking around Trafalgar Sq on school visits to London aged about 11 or 12. And I travelled overland to India aged 19, I don't consider myself to be a "serious" photographer back then but I documented the journey with a Kodak Instamatic film camera (still have the prints, and one image from it on my Insta) I had an unplanned stay in Iran because of the Islamic revolution of 1979 (I'm older than I look) The Kodak Instamatic was a basic point and shoot with symbols as a crude distance scale, and I don't recall any control over the exposure, maybe a symbol method again? The film came in a cassette which just clipped into the back of the camera, smaller film then 35mm, really just a glorified pin hole camera! But it worked in a fashion.

My first decent camera was an Olympus Trip 35, 35mm film camera. I started doing the obvious landscapes, and pics of people I knew. Later I started using Canon 35mm SLR cameras, and medium format twin lens film cameras...more landscapes, yawn. I had a spell doing wedding photography, even bigger yawn, which I was good at, but the novelty soon waned and it got to the point where it was actually stifling my creativity! I did a stint at College doing a BTEC diploma, which was a waste of time really, the Tutor was a waste of space, I learnt more through my own efforts and I am still learning today. The only landscapes I do now tend to be Cityscapes. It wasn't until 2001 during a visit to NYC and San Francisco that I slowly discovered/developed my love for street photography, and documentary style photography. so maybe that's when it became serious? As I say it's debatable. I could do a post on what qualifies as a professional photographer. When I used to do wedding photography my own definition for a professional was someone who can deliver the goods, no matter what! I know some people who think simply having a degree on the subject makes them professional. 😂

Sunday, 29 June 2025

The raw and the cooked

My latest street portrait, (a phone shot of my camera screen) not worked on them yet but spent a day recently in Sheffield, a great place for street photography. I always shoot in raw mode for several reasons, one I just enjoy working on them, and I also end up with large files great for printing large. Took it with my Canon 6D and my Canon EF 24-105mm f3.5/5.6 IS STM lens, don't be fooled by the lack of a red ring this lens is super, I have a few lenses including some with red rings (L lenses) I enjoy using this one, in fact I prefer it over the f4 L version mk 1, not tried the mk 2. For those unaware a raw file is like a digital negative, unlike a jpeg which can be used straight out the camera a raw file needs working on. It retains all the information, data etc its possible to get from the image rather than the cameras own processing messing with it.

I'm available for talks, photo walks and seminars worldwide... Joking 😃 I am not one for blowing my own trumpet, I don't really need to my work speaks for itself. I have turned down offers of exhibitions at some great venues for various reasons, such as the Brick Lane gallery in East London, they just want too much £ up front, all these galleries operate a bit differently and there is no guarantee of selling anything to recoup the costs involved. I was keen to do one in Havana, Cuba (Cuba, how could one not do it) but unfortunately the Lockdowns happened and it never got off the ground!