Sixteen - The walled city

The development down the street was supposed to be well and truly complete by now, by last year... It's still a big old block of empty mud. The 12' high black fence that runs the length of a block on all sides is testament to over-supply of expensive apartments. 

Sixteen : Day Two | Thursday September 16th, 2016

Sixteen - The bag guy

I was speaking to a bloke today about photography. He challenged me to choose a camera, focal length and to take a photo a day for a month. Not only self portraits, but any photo, daily surroundings but push the boundaries. 

I choose 16mm and my Sony a7R Mk2

This is the start of that journey, just because it's late and I'm not going outside in the rain. 

Sixteen : Day One | Thursday September 15th, 2016

 

 

Centering thumbnails in SquareSpace

A quick look how to best place your images in your SquareSPace website. Using a 3x3 gallery with a particular crop, in this case 1x1 / square, you need to be able to choose the viewable area of your cropped thumb to make the most impact - the video shows you how to adjust your images, it'd dead easy - drag the little circle to where you think is best, click apply, relax. Hi Ted!

2009 - Old gig I photographed, http://www.noisettes.co.uk/ || #Noisettes #BringTheNoise #MakeContact

Packing the Yashicaflex in the thinkTank TurnStyle 10

This one's for you, Laviotette!

A quick pack up of the thinkTankPhoto TurnStyle 10 with my Yashicaflex 635, Zeiss Ikon, Sony RX100Mk4, MindShift memory card wallet and my regular wallet (Bellroy) to show it opened and closed. 

See the original thread here

The thinkTank TurnStyle 10 with the Yashicaflex 635 and Zeiss Ikon inside.

For sizing, I've stuck a Zeiss 16-35 f/4.0 on the left, Zeiss Ikon, Yashicaflex 635 as well as Sony RX100Mk4 / Memory Card Wallet (MindShiftGear) and my own wallet in the front. 

Hope this helps some of you that want to pack light with a larger style / format camera and extra bits and pieces. 

A spur of the moment kinda shoot & the gear I used

It was fun to go along to my lovely cousin's 40th last night and see some relatives I don't see often! I had a thought in the afternoon "Maybe I should take a camera?" and i emailed to ask if that would be OK. OK indeed it was and, so I thought - no worries, a7RMk2 in a holster / maybe a Retrospective 5, just keep it simple, you know... 

3LeggedThing Tripod & MindShiftGear MultiMount Holster w/ Sony a7RMk2 + Zeiss 35mm f/1.4

3LeggedThing Tripod & MindShiftGear MultiMount Holster w/ Sony a7RMk2 + Zeiss 35mm f/1.4

That's always the plan, go light, go simple... So, The gear I ended up taking (In a new camera bag I'm using that I can't tell you about) was as follows...

  • Sony a7R Mk2
  • Sony Zeiss Distagon 35mm f/1.4
  • Sony Zeiss 16-35mm f/4
  • Sony Zeiss 90mm f/2.8 Macro
  • Sony Zeiss 55mm f/2.8
  • Phottix Mitros+ / Odin TCU
  • Jinbei HD600 v2.0 600Ws Studio light
  • Jinbei 120cm Quick Fold Octa
  • MagMod Modifier kit
  • Voking VK360 Mini-Flash
  • KupoGrip Click Stands x 2
  • 3Leggedthing Winston
  • Pop-up backdrop

Yeah, see, managed to travel light! Anyways, it was for the fun of it, the backdrop was tooooo small, but there were some fun pictures and a great evening - Happy Birthday Jo!