Sime Photography

I was looking through the pictures I had taken with the EM1 today and I found a couple that I liked and thought I'd share. I've been reviewing my thoughts on this system and It's size especially with one of the Olympus prime lenses is very attractive. Also for my abstract work the shallower depth of field may actually be a benefit. A second camera with a 45mm f1.8 lens may compliment my Ricoh GR really well and give me a little more reach. I'm going to The Photography Show next Monday so hopefully I'll get to have a play with the new EM5 Mkii which looks good.

So I had my time with the OMD EM1. Thanks Olympus and Park Cameras for putting such a scheme into place. It's a really nice solid camera. I know it's seen as a small camera by most but I use a Ricoh GR most of the time so for me it actually seemed quite heavy, at least initially. As I said in the post the other day I was mainly looking at the long exposure "Livetime" function to see if it would give me greater flexibility and creative inspiration. Did it do that? Well....not really. My shots are typically 2 to 5 seconds or so. The updates on the screen can only happen at half second intervals. It felt a bit like playing an old video game where the screen refresh rate was really slow so you make adjustments and the when you see the result of those adjustments you've crashed into a wall and exploded into a huge fireball. Granted me moving the camera a bit isn't quite as dramatic but it didn't give me the feeling I wanted. I also found that I was tempted t...

Tomorrow I'm taking advantage of Olympus' Test and Wow scheme and getting an OMD EM1 and 12-40mm lens for a couple of days. In really keen to see how the live bulb function works for my motion blur photographs. This function gives you an update on the screen of how long exposures are building every half a second or so. You can Program the update interval depending on the overall length of exposure. I'm thinking it could be very useful as I will know have feedback of my movements albeit only every half second. At the moment I have no feedback so even 8 updated in a second exposure should give me quite a lot of information. Hopefully it may also lead to some creative inspiration that would not have been possible without it. I'll report back when I've had a chance to digest my findings

I've posted some new images on Behance. The project is called "Rotations" and features images created by camera rotation. Here's the link  http://bit.ly/1uwdSyF It's amazing the textures produced with varying speeds and and by slowing the speed at various points during the rotation. I hope you enjoy!

This is Frensham Common between the two ponds. It's been a while since fire reshaped this area. It still reminded my of some ancient graveyard where the burnt relics of trees lay about like skeletons.

From my bedroom window I can see over the small valley that is Lower Bourne in Surrey UK and yesterday there was a beautiful sunset. It was lovely as a village scene in Surrey but by moving the camera during this 2 second exposure it has given me this wonderful mystic scene reminiscent of some far flung mountains. I moved the camera down and at the same time from side to side forming the swirling shapes from the tree line. I enhanced the colours in post processing to bring out the warmth of the scene.

I visited The Photography Show, which was great, on Saturday and had a chance to take some shots in the town on Friday. I'm really pleased with this one of the Selfridges building in The Bullring. Rankin was at the Photography Show and I've entered the Launching People competition where he is a mentor. Would really appreciate your support here