Darkroom workshop with Adrian Ensor Recently my girlfriend announced me that for my birthday gift she prepared something special! Of course it didn’t take me long to pull out what’s that from her 🙂 It turned out it was a workshop with one of the greatest darkroom printers and also great photographers, I mean with Adrian Ensor here in London! You can image how happy I was. I’ve been waiting long two weeks for that day. I knew I had just 8hrs to learn as much as I can during this time. Obviously I need to prepare questions to outstanding things which no one else was able to give an answer. I thought to myself that it is great occasion to learn lots of things which I’ve never been good with. My list consisted: Better dogging and burning How to better control contrast Flattening the final prints And all other small details which by observation I can learn Finally that day came! We’ve arrived at agreed 10AM on Saturday 4th of August. Adrian has been waiting for us already. We drank a cup of coffee and we’ve been talking about the plan for a day, ideas and of course we were […]
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How to print in a darkroom This I’ll learn from my friend Roy, who is a darkroom printer from London. Working with Roy, I can learn tons of things which I wouldn’t be able to learn from books, conversations with other amateurs, internet articles or blogs. This is amazing to me and also it is great addition to our friendship! We’ll be working together on materials which I hope we will be able to produce to the highest level. Where sparkling highlights will be signing and shadows will be warm and full of details. Last Saturday we’ve been printing for our first client – Janie who brought her old and never printed negative film. This film has been sitting in a drawer for around 50 years. On that day it has been for the first time, put into Roy’s De Vere 705s enlarger. As a matter of learning we’ve been learning how to properly get good contrast keeping details in shadows and clean fully detailed highlights. Roy showed me how to properly dodge the print. I think I need to exercise on this as my dodging is really poor… I’ve never been good on that so I always wanted to avoid […]
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Hyde Park Corner We have new year but this part of British capital is very lively, as usual. This time I’m with a man which speech is about Jesus and his role in our lives and current world. Indeed it’s hard to not agree with him and his ideas. He is very active in his approach how to persuade to others his opinions. Please don’t think …he doesn’t know what he’s talking about! That man is every good observer and he also advised to me, what Jesus thinks about photography. Please don’t think, I’m mocking up from him but I really appreciate his open-minded approach to the surrounding world. From visual point of view, that man is interesting but also his personality makes this town very colourful. I don’t have to agree with all his opinions but I do not judge his opinions as well. That’s one and only place in the world where everyone can perform a speech about anything he/she wants. Hyde Park Corner Speaker …is very lively man. He tries to persuade all his opinions to everyone who came to this place tempted by the gathered crowd. Summing up, if you’re looking for […]
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Brexit referendum takes place on 23 June and it is very important day in a British history. Today UK citizens will decide whether to remain within EU or they will vote for Brexit. Soon after 10:00pm local time ...
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Tattoos and rings Yesterday while sitting in one of Soho’s pubs I met Alexa O’Brien – her tattoos and rings on fingers intrigued me. She worn great silver rings on both hands and those both elements were totally worth of taking picture!
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London’s Tube is very lively place in the town There’s nothing usually the same … each day is different in London’s Tube… You can meet here many people and many things can happen. Some people do are able to make some exercises. Some even do jogging! This is nice as those, really feel comfortably and just live! I like people reading newspapers because they forgetting about other commuters and start to behave naturally. But each person is different and I really like it! I am a good observer I think, and very often I am trying to catch something what other missed. Thankfully London Tube’s architects implemented those nice mirrors in which I am taking some pictures. I will try many times yet until will I’ll catch that best one, but that one below I really like. In Tube light is rather difficult for photography but everything is possible. I am using available light to catch something interesting. I need to spend more time in London Tube to get more familiar with its possibilities and to discover something more as I think this is not explored cave!
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Marlena’s portraits Today we’ve went to the park hoping to take some portraits. This was good idea as we did at least few good ones! I will try to develop them pretty quickly and maybe I will put them here this week yet, who knows? 😉 And here is my friend's - Pawel - version of Marlena's picture from the beginning of this post. I really like it!
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20 March – Man with contrabass Today we’ve met a man with such great contrabass. This instrument is indeed bigger that that man! Great finished without any polish looked impressively.
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12 March – Nice Guys from Sweden I met three guys from Sweden. I suppose they came to London as a tourists. I took them a few pictures – two of them you can find below as the rest are not ready yet 😉 I will publish them in coming few days! Thank you fellas!
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12 March – Boxer training/span> This morning I met two nice guys performing boxing training. Training in the park (Kensington Gardens) – more pictures.
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February 2016 – The wall Every town, especially capitals, have its own busy venues where many people are coming. Portobello Road is among many in London.
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Marlenka’s portraits This morning we we’ve been working in the park trying to take some good portraits of Marlena despite of the wet weather. Finding good location and a light, turned out a slightly difficult task. We decided to not give up so we’ve spent some time trying to figure out where and how to make some photographs. As sun has been moving higher and higher… Marlenka’s portrait’s This portrait is my best. I like it because of Marlena’s sight. She’s so focused which makes this picture so energetic. As taking of model’s pictures or portraits isn’t easy task the one taken to the person you know very well sometimes is more difficult than that one taken of strangers. Pictures in the park – If you’ve found them interesting feel free to share them with your friends.
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