Fujifilm ‘Through my Eyes’

Fujifilm UK just updated my ‘Through my Eyes’ portfolio at https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.649284405098929.1073741847.385689698125069&type=1 – please take a look and share if you can.

The Bass Player

This is Reid Anderson of the jazz trio The Bad Plus tuning up at the sound checks for a concert at the Turner Sims Concert Hall in Southampton. I wanted to create the feel of the jazz clubs of the 60′s so I took the image into SilverEfex Pro2 and applied a standard filtration to it to achieve this effect. The original was from the Fuji X-Pro1 using the 35mm lens at 3,200iso. I hope you think it works!

Ian Shaw

I had the greatest of pleasures recently of photographing English jazz vocalist Ian Shaw at the Turner Sims Concert Hall. I had photographed Ian a couple of years ago, but this time I was able to spend a little time chatting, and what a very pleasant guy he is. I hope he likes his photos:

All images were taken on the X-Pro1 using the 35mm f1.4 lens at 3,200iso, and then processed through Lightroom 4.4 and Silver Efex Pro 2.

Look both Ways

“Ian Shaw at the Turner Sims” and “Looking In”

Two new images that I hope you will like. They are, of course, totally different and yet they both show the power of the monochrome image in my opinion. I used the Fuji X-Pro1 and the 35mm lens (=50mm) to shoot the raw files, and then processed through Lightroom 4.4 and SilverEfex Pro2 for the black and white conversion.

Talking Japanese

Urban Landscape #8394

I am working gradually on a series of urban landscapes, and this is another from that series – don’t worry, there are not 8,394 of them, that is just my reference number! This was taken through a hole in a safety fence around the site using my X-Pro1, and then processed using the new Lightroom 5 Beta (which I love). I darkened the sky down using neutral density filtration within Lightroom. The site is right in the centre of Southampton where a department store has been demolished to make way for urban regeneration.