S9600 – Page 2 – Jonathan Gazeley

Light & darkness

I took this photo for this week’s Photo Challenge, on the theme of Light & Darkness. It’s an unusually opaque bottle of wine (Fragolino, actually) backlit by a softbox. The camera was moved slightly to one side to pick up some of the reflection on the side of the bottle. The annoying mark on theContinue reading “Light & darkness”

Felt tip pens

Yes, it’s a boring shot of some felt tip pens in their packet. But I love how the rainbow colours line up! It’s also a really fancy packet, where the lid folds round and clicks into place as a stand, to hold the pens in this position. This appeals to my geek side.

An evening view

The other night, I saw a strange cloud formation at a weather front forming around sunset. I rushed to get my camera to capture it before it disappeared. The result of my haste is a pretty poor picture of a weather front, but I like it because of the way the fish eye lens curvesContinue reading “An evening view”

A cosy bed

I took this photo for the Photo Challenge theme of Home. I’ve published it belatedly here.

Great Britain cloud

I was digging through some old photos and I came across this one that I took in July 2008. I think this cloud looks a lot like Great Britain!

Denim texture

As well as the stone cat, I also took these photos as candidates for the Photo Challenge theme of textures. I don’t know if the super-macro zoom level spoils the rough texture of denim. Maybe they’re a bit too close up.

Stop and think

It was an interesting challenge from Stu this week. Set up your photo of any subject. Now stop. Think. Make THREE improvements to your photo. …and finally take it. I was somewhat lacking in inspiration, but since I’ve recently become interested in how to light scenes properly, this is a perfect opportunity for some experimentingContinue reading “Stop and think”

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