My third year of doing photography in the autumn.

Spring 2019

This is a review of the work I have conducted over the last three months: March 2019, April 2019, May 2019; learning the art of photography in the Spring.

As with my review of Winter 2018 /19, I’m now in a position to compare the work produced in this period with that of a year previously.  First observations comparing my top 10 images from the last 3 months from those of a year ago:

• 3 of the images use either intentional camera movement or multiple exposures to create a styalised look, none were in 2018
• 6 images were shot indoors (2018 all images were shot outside) – most were public locations including art galleries and railway stations
• General shift from landscape to street as the dominant genre.

The biggest influence on my recent images came as a result of a serendipitous meeting at the annual exhibition of the Cambridge Camera Club on 3rd May with Lynne Blount author of the image “Tribute to Pep Ventosa”.  Two of my top 10 images from the last 3 months are an attempt to create images in a Ventosa style.

Although only one image from the final 10 was shot with my new 100mm macro lens, “Stoke Common Spring Grasses“, I anticipate using this lens for found abstracts, in the style of Paul Mitchell who, despite my move away from landscapes, remains a big influence and a reminder of how far I have to go.

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Winter 2018/ 19

This is my second review of my top images and other work whilst learning photography in the winter, i.e., December 2017 through to February 2018 inclusive.  Most notably, it is the first quarterly review where I am able to compare the work done in the last quarter with that achieved during a full quarter the previous year before: “Winter Images 2017/ 18“.  This is because the “Second Review of Autumn” compared itself to the “Review of Autumn 2017” which only covered November 2017.

First observations of my top 10 images:

• 3 are monochrome
• 3 involve intentional camera movement
• 3 were shot indoors
• 3 or 4 benefit from the blurring effects of a long exposure
• 3 are composites made from more than one RAW file.

10 images in total, and I promise that these were not selected to fulfill the above, rather surprising, criteria.  From a year before, of the top 14 images there was only one monochrome (to avoid what would otherwise have been a horrendous colour clash), one composite (picture in picture), one deliberately out of focus abstract, and one colour processed cityscape shot from the Walkie-Talkie London.

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Autumn 2018

As the title of this post suggests this my second time writing a review of autumn and as such my photographic technique has hopefully advanced since I wrote the First Autumn Post a year ago.  Having reviewed this last post, I am feeling a bit of pressure as some of the images in that post are fairly good.  Learning photography autumn – game on!

Whereas Autumn 2017 only covered November 2017, when I started this project, and dealt mainly with woodland photography this post covers the full three months from September and more styles of photography including:

• Street Photography at the Tate Modern, Brick Lane and elsewhere
• Architectural Photography as a result of my first commercial assignment
• Seascapes: Bournemouth, Crosby Beach – Another Place

In terms of improving my woodland and landscape photography, I was able to attend a one day workshop with Paul Mitchell (30th October) in Burnham Beeches and Leeming and Paterson (20th November) in Great Missenden

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