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Aw Gross
“Ooh, a colourful bird on a wire, with prey! Easy composition.”, I thought. This bird proceeds to beat the, potentially, living daylights out of the dragon fly as my shutter records this at 4fps....
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Phone Cameraology
iPhone 5 is out today and I can’t help feeling Apple isn’t prioritising the needs of its photographers. Only marginally better than the 4S and significantly poorer than the camera on Nokia’s 808...
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Daily Awesome Photo
I was recently congratulated for a photo stream where the everyday objects and scenes are interesting. Apart from any other implications, it does make for a wider choice of subject matter Todays DAP is...
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The Life Of Screens
I have to apologise for the bicycles image, posted yesterday. I saw those bikes, all lined up like synchronised swimmers, and I was excited about the prospect of the image. The let down? My...
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Photographer. In London. In the rain.
This Friday, just passed, I was in London to catch A Bigger Splash at the Tate Modern. My usual modus operandi is to travel into town a few hours earlier and walk the streets, but the rain forced me to...
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Composition is King. Always.
The image above, the Price Waterhouse Cooper building in London, is not new. I captured it last year and processed it immediately on my return from the shoot. I have to admit to being quite fickle...
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Lightroom vs Photoshop
Just. Keep. Walking. Subject not related to image, by the way. I found this mural near Shoreditch High Street and instantly loved the symmetry and the piece. Just gotta wait for one of those pesky...
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Depth of field in street photography
Constructing Mazes In a previous life, as an artist using traditional mediums, my brain didn’t really grasp the creative use of a shorter depth of field. On picking up a digital camera, it quickly...
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Do you see what I see?
Private Property I spotted the space, the people and the security guard almost at the same time. My very next thought was about the centre piece in this hidden from the street scene and how they might...
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There most definitely is an ‘I’ in ‘Street Photographer’
Yesterday, and only through a random ‘off to London’ status on Facebook by friend and Street Photographer Stephen Cosh, I was invited to join a photowalk. I must confess I was quite keen to meet other...
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Get In There!
I watched this guy put the hard sell on these two to move his vintage cameras. A Polaroid in this case. My lightning quick composition brain concluded shorter depth of field and get his cold eyes...
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PhotoFriday.com Is ‘Spacious’
This image, above, was my 14th capture on my current camera. If you look back a year, at your out of camera exposures. Could you have captured a better frame? Going into the weekend, I will leave you...
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London’s Urban Landscapes
As I wander London’s streets I look up. I’m not referring to a moment, I mean the entire day. Long ago I discovered, all too slowly for a reasonably intelligent person, I looked at everything as a...
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Are You Street Photographers Afraid To Shoot Sideways?
I follow the continuing work from a lot of street photographers on the ‘net and I’ve noticed, by far, the dominant orientation is landscape. I also frequent gallery spaces and exhibitions and the...
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Winter Is Coming!
While the inclement winter weather rolls in I will still be out there photographing London’s streets. Of course, the dynamic of people photography changes slightly with them not actually wanting to be...
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Depth Of Field in 35mm Street Photography
On this particular day, I was walking London’s Chinatown to the Leicester Square exit and I was literally seconds from bumping into this couple. Either purposeful or late, no idea, but I had virtually...
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It’s A New Year, Are You Back On The Streets?
I hope your New Year celebrations went well? Did you make any resolutions to better yourself? Personally, I have 2. Keep Mrs Walker-Toye happy Take every opportunity to make even better street...
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Street Photographers Are Too Busy To Stop!
I’ve developed this habit, I’ve yet to decide whether it’s good or not, where I hold and point and shoot without stopping or literally stopping for a step-pause-click-continue. It has yielded a few...
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