I took up photography in my teens when I had an inexpensive
Russian camera, the Lubitel II, which was a twin-lens reflex.
I also belonged to my school camera club, but the club folded
and my
enthusiasm waned. In later years I always had a point-and-shoot
SLR for family and holiday purposes, but it wasn't until
the arrival of the digital camera that my serious interest
revived. In these pages I show some of my photographs with some comments.
Poppy Field
Photographing poppies in the field is always tricky.
Even on the calmest days your subjects (the poppies)
are moving. If you close down the aperature, you need
to lengthen exposure, risking a blurred image. If you
keep it open or open it more, in order to increase your
exposure speed, you shorten the depth of field, and risk
another sort of blurring. The zoom lenses on compact
digital cameras don't give you a lot of play re. depth
of field. Your final tool is to increase the ISO, and
risk an increase in noise.
Poppies and the poppy field are a delightful photographic
subject, and I'll be trying again this summer, wit tripod
and windshield.
Boat Houses - Built by Jack
Just south of the bridge across the River Adur at Shoreham
on the west bank is a 'row' of boat houses of many different
shapes and sizes. There is also a variety of huts and outhouses
as this photograph shows.
Not Waving but Cycling
High tide and a strong onshore wind and the Undercliff
Walk just to the east of Brighton marina is a great place
to be to photograph crashing waves. In this photograph
three cyclists are enjoying avoiding the seaspray. I took
lots of photographs that day from which I got a few worth
keeping.
A Link of the Eye
The London Eye is a great photographic
subject. Most photographs are of its great wheel and
its capsules. Here is another view of one of the gigantic
links which hold its great arms in place. I liked
it because it is such a simple mechanical device but
on a very grand scale.
