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• November Walk
  by Dave Pearson

  Yesterday evening, just before sunset, I went for a short walk around Billingborough...

  Yesterday evening, just before sunset, I went for a short walk around Billingborough with my Canon EOS 400D. Even though it was only around 15:30 in the afternoon the sun wasn’t far off setting. Despite the low lighting I managed to get a handful of pictures out of the walk: / Fallen Fence / But Look Around / Sunrise Elsewhere / Looking Towards the Night / Draw the Line Here See here for the full set.

• Collaboration: First Tripod Out of the Pit
  by Dave Pearson

  About a week ago Lloyd Harvey commented on...

  About a week ago Lloyd Harvey commented on my photograph Beyond the Trees, saying that it reminded him of one of the early scenes of H. G. Wells’ book The War of the Worlds. He then went on to express a desire to take the image and turn it into what he was seeing. Never having done any sort of collaboration before, and being a big fan of the book (I read it many times as a child and own quite a few copies), I was intrigued by the idea. So, a couple of BubbleMails later we had a plan. Lloyd delivered the result to me today: I think he’s done a great job (and I do like the idea of a tripod getting ready to take on Billingborough) and the bulk of the credit goes to Lloyd: I just took a photograph, he did a lot of work creating the tripod and then processing the final result. Have a look at his page for the image for details on how he created the work. And be sure to have a look at his website too.

• It's Spring, so of course we now get snow...
  by Dave Pearson

  Here in South Lincolnshire we’ve had pretty much no snow all winter. If it did snow (and I don’t recall any to speak of) it was a brief f…

  Here in South Lincolnshire we’ve had pretty much no snow all winter. If it did snow (and I don’t recall any to speak of) it was a brief flurry and didn’t cover the ground. So, of course, now that it’s pretty much spring, we finally get some. Here’s what we woke up to find last Sunday morning.

• UK Earthquake
  by Dave Pearson

  Last night I was woken up by a relatively (for the UK) unusual event: an earthquake. I’ve written about it some more over here:...

  Last night I was woken up by a relatively (for the UK) unusual event: an earthquake. I’ve written about it some more over here.

• Over-Processing can be fun
  by Dave Pearson

  Most of my photography, at least the images that don’t get turned into black and white images, end up…

  Most of my photography, at least the images that don’t get turned into black and white images, end up going on my website more or less as-is. Sure, like most people, I dabble with the curves and sharpen things up a little, that sort of thing; but mostly they remain looking more or less true to what was originally shot. Not that I’m opposed to lots of post-processing, far from it. Sometimes the results can end up looking very attractive. I think the following might be a case in point (it works for me anyway): As I type this my friend Tim is scanning the latest film from my Lubitel 166B. He threw a jpeg of the first scan over to me to have a look at (and it looks nice) and I had a quick mess around with it in Photoshop Elements. Not a deliberate attempt to produce something, just an idle play. And this is what happened: And I quite liked it. While I wouldn’t actually go with the above as the finished product of that shot (it looks nothing like the original and is horribly over-processed), I liked it enough that it was worth a quick upload. Once I’ve got the scanned tiff file I might even work on a version like this. The shadow behind the cloud is a really nice detail. I hadn’t even noticed that before I over-processed it.

• Fuji Provia 100F Results
  by Dave Pearson

  I’ve finally uploaded the results of the first roll of Fuji Provia 100F...

  I’ve finally uploaded the results of the first roll of Fuji Provia 100F that I’ve put through the Lubitel 166B. Overall I’m pleased with the results. Out of the 12 images on the roll only 2 didn’t turn out as I’d hoped (and both were down to a metering cock-up on my part, both images show a scene, they just don’t show the scene how I wanted it to appear). The uploaded images are: Lubitel at Fulletby / / Normanton Church Museum Spring Clouds Towards Threekingham Storm Near Stow

• More Fuji Provia 100F Results
  by Dave Pearson

  Having had enjoyable results with my first roll I decided to p…

  Having had enjoyable results with my first roll I decided to put a second roll of Fuji Provia 100F through the Lubitel 166B. I finished the roll off the other weekend, while at Belton House, and last Monday I posted it for processing and scanning by my friendly Scottish landscape photographer (thanks Tim!). I got the results back on Saturday and have processed them all over the weekend. The results are as follows: Mareham Lane Rapeseed Lone Pylon Repetition Lubitel at Belton House / / / / I did suffer some light leakage this time around, especially on the first three frames. The second frame (Lone Pylon) suffered the most, hence the reason I turned it into black and white. Other than that I’m very pleased with the results. As it turns out, I was so happy with the way that Lone Pylon turned out I’ve made it available as a print (as part of my series Against the Sky):