Abby, Plymouth, 2010

72%, with caramel.

I’m actually partial to Lindt Chilli Chocolate, but that’s for special occasions.

Abby, Plymouth, 2010

Who doesn’t like chocolate?

My personal favourite is the Lion Bar.

Ria, Plymouth, 2010

To be square. I dug out my Rolleicord, and gave it a whirl on a test shoot with Ria.

Interesting results, I like them.

The experience has made me want a better film camera, however. One more suited to this type of photography at least.

Abby, Plymouth, 2010

More than OK in fact.

A quick (but likely to be final) edit of a shot from last night’s shoot with Abby. I do curse my 3-year-old camera’s rather limited ability to focus ‘correctly’ in low light, but after seeing this image I think I should be thinking of it as a ‘feature’.

The focus ’should’ be on the eye… as any portrait photographer will tell you. But to me, the most interesting thing here are the layers and texture of the hair, and I love the way they pop out in this shot, due to it being the shallow focal point.

Yeah, it’s a portrait, but the eyes aren’t always the subject.

I’ll just have to try and remember this when I get a better camera…

Me and Sharon, Brighton Beach, 2004

I love these accidental double exposures of myself and Sharon, a friend from my art college days. We were attending a mutual friend’s wedding in Brighton and went down to the beach during one of the boring bits.

Starfish, 2004

More old stuffs.

Shot with natural light.

What I’m finding interesting as I go through this older stuff is that I had less technical know-how back then, but my vision was, if anything, clearer.

Starfish, 2004

Beki, Plymouth, 2009

I love texture. Here’s some freshly-edited images of a shoot from last year with Beki.

Beki, Plymouth, 2009

Ria, cropped. Plymouth, 2009

… and then crop. Lovely.

This makes me see the point in having a bazzilion megapixels… so I can zoom in, find lovely crops like this one and still be able to print them with plenty of detail.

Starfish, Wembury Beach, 2004

Still no new stuff worth mentioning, so here’s another old film shot from my archives.

I really deserve to own a Hasselblad you know. You should buy me one. haha..

Hurlers, Cornwall, 2004

As I haven’t taken pictures of anybody for what seems like an age, I’ve been mooching through some of my really old stuff.

I really like some of this. It’s made me realise that I really wasn’t that bad a photographer back then. I think I may have been ‘rehearsing’ at the time and really wanted to include people in these shots, but they’re pretty strong as they are.

They make me miss film, and in particular infrared film.

They make me miss the slow process that was involved, and that shows in the results, particularly the compositions.

Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, 2004

They REALLY make me miss square images.

Ho-hum.. perhaps I’ll get some nice prints of these made up.

Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, 2004