Pictures – Page 5

February 25, 2018February 25, 2018

Exhibitions

Yardley Photographic Society’s (now ended) annual exhibition was the only one I bothered to enter in the past. I had thought about entering others but never quite got round to it. Anyway in a moment of boredom on a Sunday morning I’ve entered two.

The two entered are: South Birmingham and Evesham.

South Birmingham is a one I know of as they are a local club to me. Both are BPE so I expect it to be popular with the badge collectors (*).

The entries are the same for both competitions……

….to be honest I don’t expect much as I’ve seen previous entries and mine aren’t the current style of photography. It would be nice to get one accepted for the exhibition though.

*The star represents BPE * ratings. You can achieve up to a BPE 5* rating which means you’ve won a lot and entered a lot of competitions.

February 24, 2018February 25, 2018

Loving the Fuji a bit more every day

So, holiday is over and what did I learn?

Well first of all – it was a nice break for a few days with the wife and kids filled with lots of walking and eating rubbish. Whilst away I always take a camera, this time travelling light with just the Fuji X Pro 2. It was used a fair amount – although I’m trying not to let it take over my life as its a holiday after all and it’s not just me.

Anyway, time for some images…..

Sunset on the Savannah (or Devon/Cornwall Border)

February 13, 2018

Portfolio

Posh word for collection of images, it’s also the default name for a gallery that a nice plugin for wordpress creates. It’s called ‘Easy Photography Portfolio‘ from a company called Colormelon – they create a number of paid WordPress themes etc, but this portfolio is free!

I’ve been looking for a decent gallery for WordPress for a while – I think I’ve found it now. Still testing but on the whole it does what I want – it could do with a few tweaks to fine tune the look but considering the complications of other plugins this one is easy. (It could be I’ve not found what to tweak yet!)

Click on the Portfolio link in the right side menu widget.

Enjoy.

February 10, 2018February 10, 2018

Mono Competition

It’s a few weeks away, but I’m leaning towards the following images for the Mono Competition (digital section):

Paddington Station – Fujifilm GA645zi – Ilford HP5 Plus

For this most season I’ve stuck to Film images as that was my primary format. Now with the X-Pro 2 I’m mixing both film and digital images for the competitions. Neither of my entries got ranked in the top 3 last competition (3rd Quarterly)….

Reluctant Shopper – Fujifilm GA645zi – Kodak Portra 400

…..however the digital (Concrete Junction) was highly commended. Hopefully the mono entries will be more successful. I know the judge shoots film, but that hasn’t swayed my decision to enter a film scan, if anything the projection does tend to spoil the images – I’m tempted to get hold of a cheap projector to see they turn out.

February 3, 2018February 3, 2018

Scanning

Had a bit of spare time today, it’s a Saturday after all – so I’ve fired up the XP pc and SCSI scanner in an attempt to catch up with my images taken in November…..

A bit of strange one this, a number of Igers folks have been playing with light and my mate Andy May (Alpha.brum on Instagram) is probably the local master at it. Anyway, common convention for these shots are a reasonable decent iso (200-400) and long exposure, colour obviously. But me not being conventional decided Film, ISO 50 at that (Ilford Pan F 50) and the film in question is black and white. It’s been processed a bit, but overall I like it.

The rest of the shots are from November’s trip to London for Callum’s birthday. Shot with both Ilford Pan F 50 and Ilford HP5 Plus.

Just got a couple of 35mm films to scan, those are a bit easier as I can do 6 images in one go. The 120 format is a bit more of pain as it’s single frame only.