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I finally achieved a personal ambition – a shot St Paul’s across the Millennium Bridge without people in it. The composition is a long way from perfect, and I really wish that sodding seagul hadn’t been there, but I had about five seconds to snap this, as there was a bloke coming up behind me. but still, I got the damn thing. One of London’s best views, unspoiled by humans. I’ll try again at some point in the summer, I think.
This is not intended to badger people, and I apologise for spaming the friends pages of uninterested parties, but I’m aware that the poll I posted yesterday was posted late at night, and may have gotten lost/buried down people’s friends pages today.
It’s a poll about who might be interested in coming to my place in Tooting to get your picture taken in an unusual outfit that you might happen to own. So obviously, if that’s not you, then you can skip this, but it’s just that when I mooted the project a while back I got a reasonably enthusiastic response from a decent number of people, but when it comes to actually to arrange something to happen, the response has dropped off markedly.
So: if you in the course of your life, dress up in funny outfits, for goth/fetish/steampunk/LARP/furry/steampunk/other reasons, and want a pair of photos of you taken, please, pop back and fill the poll in…
Bet you all thought I’d forgotten, didn’t you?
I hadn’t. But a couple of days after I first posted about it, they started digging up the road. They finished digging it up a couple of weeks back, but I was busy with stuff at work, and other randoms stuff, and didn’t really have time to think about it. And anyway: the weather’s improving a bit. And while I do want some shots in the rain, my general preference is likely to be for sunlight. Of some kind.
Those of you wondering what the fuck I’m talking about, by the way, should go here, but the brief version is that I have a number of friends who belong to one or more subcultures that involve dressing up, and I want to do a series of photos with willing people of two shots each – one in normal clothes, the other dressed up in their finery, in identical poses at the bus stop.
I’m planning to get groups of 3-6 people in at a time – that should give me enough time to get decent photos of each person, and mean that we’ve enough space about the place for people to get changed, apply make-up, and so on.
So, for those of you interested (and if you didn’t say you were interested last time, you can always say so now), please indicate dates that you would be willing/able to lug a costume to my place in Tooting, and have a few shots taken of you, in exchange for all the tea and biscuits you can consume, and hi-res digital copies of the two resulting images.
I’ll then drop people emails trying to sort out specific dates/times/groups. I’ll probably want a range of daytime/evening/night shots.
NB: like I said last time – this is a moderately busy bus stop, on a main road. You won’t be out there in your costume very long, and it is literaly outside my front door, but still: it will be pretty public. That’s the appeal of the project – the very ordinary context. So if you’re nervous about being seen in public in the outfit you want to use, do say – we can always try and arrange a night shoot, when the street is emptier, but I would like *some* day shoots if I can…
Everyone follow that? Good. Please to be ticking the boxes.
I was round an art exhibition the other week with some friends. Some of it was unmitigated toss, some of it was OK, and mostly it was the building that was the star. But here’s a shot of one of the better works. Still if I’m honest, my photo of this piece appeals to me far more than the piece itself did. This is another shot where I knew exactly what effect I’d be post-processing for, removing detail, and replacing it with heavy shadow, before I even took the shot.
If anyone of this parish happens to be the sort of person who might pick up a copy of Bizarre magazine now and again, then you could do worse than pick up this month’s issue, as one of my photos is in it, alongside their review of the Amanda Palmer gig I was at the other month. I sent them a choice of photos, so naturally, they’ve used the one I like least, but still, that’s one of my photos in print that is. I am now an internationally published photographer. (I’ve previously been published in Sweden, some years ago.) Which is nice.