Sunday, 28 September 2014

Photokina 2014 and A7s vs Df shootout

Some photos from Barcelona to follow soon...
In the meantime, I hope you enjoy some of my takeaways from the 2014 Photokina.


Sunday, 14 September 2014

Strolling around London's East End with Tom

It's been a while since I've blogged, partly due to work reasons, then an extended holiday and finally some health issues.

While I'll take time poring over my holiday photos I though I would post some from Saturday (13-Sep) when I met up with Tom prior to this weekend's trip to Photokina to catch up and take a few pictures. We did more catching up than photography but it was nice to be out with someone like-minded.


Growing old gracefully
Nikon Df, 50mm, f/3.5, 1/250s, ISO100








































Absorbing news the traditional way
Nikon Df, 50mm, f/3.5, 1/50s, ISO100




























Fashion Street E1
Nikon Df, 50mm, f/3.5, 1/125, ISO100




























Punchcard art
Nikon Df, 50mm, f/2.5, 1/125, ISO100




























Nikon Df, 50mm, f/2.5, 1/125, ISO100













Monday, 28 July 2014

A bit of food and the last chance saloon...

I was out in town today, doing some shopping taking a few photos when I could and resting in between to get some food and rest.

We happened across a nice Greek restaurant/bar called Ergon where I chose to have a (fantastic) omelette and fries, as below.

Nikon Df, 50mm, f/2, 1/125s, ISO100



























A few shops later we needed another break.
It looked like this guy needed a break too.

Nikon Df, 50mm, f/2, 1/100s, ISO100


Tuesday, 22 July 2014

Beach huts and a captain

When it comes to the British coastline, I don't expect white, sandy beaches but instead look forward to colourful beach huts.

I've seen them in West Wittering and more recently in Whitstable.
This was one of the first outings where I felt more at home with the 20mm f/3.5 AIS Nikon lens. Although I love wide-angles, perhaps I'm more used to the ultra-wide 14mm or the not-so-wide 24mm...and so it took a while for me to become accustomed to the middle-of-the-pack 20mm.


Nikon Df, 20mm, f/5.6, 1/640s, ISO50

Nikon Df, 20mm, f/5.6 1/320s, ISO50
Nikon Df, 50mm, f/3.2, 1/1250s, ISO50

Thursday, 3 July 2014

Around the East End

I joined another MeetUp group based on a Jack the Ripper theme last weekend and again, it was fun to be out there with other photographers.

The Df definitely helps to be more discreet, as the shutter noise is much quieter than on the D700.

Nikon Df, 20mm, f/3.5, 1/60s, ISO100

Nikon Df, 20mm, f/3.5, 1/320s, ISO100

Nikon Df, 50mm, f/2.2, 1/2000s, ISO100

Nikon Df, 50mm, f/2.2, 1/400s, ISO100

Nikon Df, 50mm,, f/2.0, 1/800s, ISO100

Nikon Df, 50mm, f/2.5, 1/100s, ISO100