A selection of some of my favourite images taken in May. I thought of would be fun to try and do a roundup every month of images that I like, without worrying about focusing on one location or theme. I’m sure some of these will end up going in different ongoing little projects, or I’ll go back and retake them.
The weather has been really great recently, which has meant I’ve been able to take my camera out with me while walking the dog every evening, and I’ve benefitted from some great light. These are all black and white (processed in C1) as that is the look I’m enjoying at the moment, and hopefully by shooting continually with this in mind, I can really hone the exact final look that I want. These are a mixture of Sony and Fuji digital images, but hopefully they have been edited consistently, so it isn’t immediately obvious that the images are from two different cameras.
One of the best days in May was driving to Wales to pick up a new kitten. As this motorway structure was nearby, I was able to make a quick detour to have a walk around and photograph some massive ugly lumps of grey concrete, which was amazing.
One of quite a few taken in Greyville Smyth Park, this must have been early on in May as the leaves on the trees hadn’t quite come out yet. I actually edited this to move the moon to the centre of the sky, as I couldn’t line it up at the time.
I’ve walked this path hundreds of times, but I’ve never seen the stairs illuminated quite like that. One of those cases of the right place at just the right time.
Converting this one to black and white felt like a little bit of a waste, as the raw file contained all those amazing dusk sky colours. Instead I tried to really emphasise the natural gradient as the sky darkens.
Part of my ongoing obsession shooting underneath Brunel Way. This was taken as it was getting dark, so was a 13 second long exposure. Though it doesn’t really look like it, the only slight tell is the light from the windows and from the small street lamp next to the stairs.
This church is in the middle of housing and trees, which makes it tricky to get a clear composition. I decided instead to just embrace that, and try and frame the trees around the neon cross. The timing also has to be right, as previously I tried at night, and it was impossible to meter for the cross, without massively underexposing everything else.
Hopefully the images in this post don’t look any different to usual. I’ve been worrying for a while about what will happen when I fill up my wordpress storage, so for this blog post I’ve embedded the images directly from flickr. This means I can export them in slightly nicer quality, as I was aware of the need to be efficient, the images for the blog were always exported the smallest/most compressed version I could get away with.
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