Jane Dallaway // Development manager, photographer, dog owner and snowboarder based in Brighton, UK
Email: jane @ dallaway.com
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In August I uploaded 162 photos to flickr.
This photograph is of Richard and Skitters standing on a fell in the Lake District, with the beautiful lake of Wastwater in the background. A beautiful photograph (in my humble opinion) of a beautiful place. Go and explore Wastwater yourself if you get a chance.
As with last months photo, this photograph was taken on my Superheadz Blue Ribbon using Kodak Ektar 100.
In July I had a quiet month and only uploaded 57 photos. Part of the reason for this is because the majority of my day to day iPhone photos are going to my janeonthemove photoblog instead. Only those photos which are potential contributions to one of my ongoing projects are making it on to flickr.
This photograph was taken on my Superheadz Blue Ribbon, their take on the Vivitar Ultra Wide camera, using, what is rapidly becoming my favourite film stock, Kodak Ektar 100. This was only the 2nd film I'd shot on this camera, and I love it. It's very small, light and extremely plasticy, but combined with the Ektar produces some wonderful coloured shots. I will do a review of it when I've run a few more films through it.
Skitters, our dog, is often a fast moving animal, and I love the perspective of this, and the fact that only the middle of her seems to be still. She's just doing what she does, running around all over the place.
In June I uploaded 127 items to flickr.
I have now posted a complete year's worth of Favourite upload photos, so for this month I thought I'd post a "could have been favourite" upload of the month
This is a photograph I like, but it is also one that I can see plenty of "it would have been better if"s with. So, I like the interaction between the two golden figures, I like the expression on the guys face but I feel it would have better without the photographer (I think) in the background (the guy with the blue jacket and arms raised as if wielding a camera just behind the guys right arm). I also feel it would have been better to have been a little bit wider and got all of the guy's left hand and more of the ladies back into the shot.
This photograph was taken at the Margate Big Event on a cloudy and, later, rainy Sunday using my Nikon d80 and processed using Lightroom.
I'll probably return to the more usual format next month.
The lovely Seb took this photo of me taking photos with my newest acquisition - an Olympus Trip 35 (reconditioned by tripman) - at Natalie and Simon's wedding yesterday. It had a roll of FujiFilm NeoPan (black and white ISO 400) in it, but was only my 2nd film with this camera so my fingers are firmly crossed for good results.
In May I uploaded 176 photos
This photo was taken in Tokyo in January, and shows Richard standing in front of the map outside Shibuya station.
I love the colours of this photo, and I love the light. In fact, the quality of the light was something I really noticed during the two days we spent in Tokyo.
This photo was taken on my Nikon d80 and processed using Lightroom.
I'm almost up to date with my photo processing, only having 75 unprocessed images left in my Lightroom queue. So the chances are good that next months 'Upload of the month' will be more topical.
In April I uploaded 216 photos
This photo was taken using hipstamatic (again!) with the John S lens and Blanko film and was taken in Bridlington, East Yorkshire of part of the recently redeveloped spa building. I loved the orange colour, and knew that the blue cast of the John S lens would work really well with it.
The other weekend I found myself in a pretty place with enough spare time to do a bit of work for a comparison of the different "film types" available for ClassicTOY to try and work out what the best option would be for a landscape. I thought this might be of interest to others, so here they all are.
Note: These photos were all taken within minutes of each other, in non changing weather, but not under any form of "controlled circumstances"
The "control photo", taken with the native iPhone 2G camera:
Photo taken with "CLS Original #2"
Photo taken with "CLS Original #1"
Photo taken with "Overexposured B/W"
Photo taken with "Overexposured Color"
Photo taken with "Vintage Damaged"
Photo taken with "Vivid"
Photo taken with "High Speed B/W"
Photo taken with "Desaturated"
Photo taken with "Normal Sepia"
Photo taken with "Normal B/W"
Photo taken with "Normal Positive"
Photo taken with "Normal Negative"
Summary
My usual first choice of "film" for this app is Vivid, but it doesn't work quite so well for me as some of the others in this scenario (which is kind of why I did this exercise i the first place).
None of the black and white, or sepia, options really stand out for me. Of them all, the Overexposured B/W is probably the best, but I wouldn't really rate any of them.
So, normal positive seems to be the most similar to the standard iPhone camera colours, but still has a bit more something about it, for instance the definition in the reflections are bolder and stand out better. Definitely an improvement over the standard. I think this will become my first choice for landscapes.
In March I uploaded 236 photos
This photo was taken using hipstamatic with the John S lens and Blanko film (which is fast becoming my favourite combination).
It was taken at Saltdean, just along the coast from Brighton, whilst we were out taking the dog for a walk. Richard and Skitters just happened to walk to the end of the walkway and stop just as I got the iPhone out. I took a similar photo, only posed with them both looking at me, on my Olympus AM-100 film camera loaded with Kodak Professional BW400CN but as the film isn't finished yet, I haven't got anything to show for it yet.
I still have a backlog of photos (614 according to Lightroom) to process from my d80, mainly from our 3 week holiday in Hong Kong, Sydney and Tokyo. I hope to finish these off during April.
As organiser of Madgex Photography Workshop #2, I drew the (very) short straw of doing my 8 photos on the final day. So, prior to handing the cameras in to Colourstream, I attempted my 8 shots. As a reminder, the brief was:
My attempts were:
A number - actually lots of numbers
Something taken from ground level - these guys were jumping from surface to surface until I turned up with the camera, then the guy on the right waved at me, so I thought I'd take the photo then
A Brighton landmark - due to limited time I chose the nearest place to my work place, the pavilion...
Something red - probably my favourite of my photos
A dog - not enough time to get home and take a photo of my lovely dog but I fortunately found one tethered outside a cafe in Bond Street
Shoes - I wasn't the only one to take a photo of the display outside this shop
Street art
the person you're handing the camera over to - in my case it wasn't so much a person, as a shop
The feedback was generally positive, people had enjoyed the challenge but had found it much more difficult than the last challenge (which allowed the use of any camera, any post processing etc). At least a couple of people appreciated the fact that it totally levelled the playing field (which was kind of the point).
Some of the participants did really well - quite a few of them got all the photos in order, and some of them managed to get a theme running through them all. The most impressive theme was books, with each photo representing a different book title - i.e. Catch 22 (for number), Brighton Rock (using the Brighton word lights from the pier (landmark) and a stick of rock) etc. The winner image(s) from the different themes are now all displayed on the notice board at work for everyone to look at and appreciate.
Today is the first anniversary of being a dog owner, and during that one year of dog ownership, I've uploaded 314 photos of Skitters to flickr. This is the one that flickr tells me is most interesting of them all. It was taken on my Blackbird, Fly using a roll of the lovely Kodak Ektar 100 negative film at low tide on Lancing beach.
