Camera Obscura

Windmill

James — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:49:57 +0000

Accidental Astronomy

James — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:06:40 +0000

TweetSometimes photos just accidentally ‘happen’ and are this simple – I looked out the front door, thought “hmm that’s a weird pattern of stars” and pointed my iPhone at them to take a photo. After being mildly amused that the camera managed to take a picture at all of things billions of lightyears away with comparatively [...]

Staff Wellbeing Day

James — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:17:52 +0000

TweetAt work, once a year, we have this wonderfully corporate sounding “Staff wellbeing day” where we all get to choose an activity to do in the afternoon. Some people go golfing, some people play football, others do less intensive things involving health checkups and sitting in dark rooms learning how to relax. I chose to [...]

iPhone photo app fun

James — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:07:30 +0000

TweetI’ve downloaded a few photography apps for my iPhone, and in the recent sunny weather of the past few months have been out playing. Occipital’s 360 Panorama makes it very easy to take panoramic images by waving the camera about, and Hipstamatic gives you various “lenses” and “films” to mess with. Not sure you’d want [...]

Leeds Docklands

James — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:32:45 +0000

TweetWent out for a curry last night to the rather excellent Cafe Aagrah on Clarence Dock in Leeds. The docklands in Leeds have been redeveloped and look quite nice in the dark, with lots of shiny metal and coloured lighting. I thought I’d try my iPhone out in dark conditions to see what kind of [...]

Testing my Sigma 200mm lens

James — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:37:56 +0000

TweetSo, for Christmas I got a Sigma 70-300mm lens for my Nikon, and what with Winter being cold and dark it’s not had much use beyond photographing the atoms in my TV (it has a really powerful macro mode!). For the past few days the sky has been quite clear and there’s been a nice [...]

A trip to North Wales

James — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:52:54 +0000

Tweet During the bank holiday weekend me, my dad and the dog went to Llanberis in North Wales. There’s a large campsite there which even in the middle of Bank Holiday weekend had plenty of free space. The weather wasn’t especially great, but I managed to get some nice photos. We arrived on Thursday to [...]

Low-fi cameraphone Photos

James — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:15:38 +0000

TweetHere’s some photos I took with my T-Mobile G1 and the ‘Vignette‘ camera software. I like the cheap look caused by a mixture of the software and the camera hardware. The borders and fake film bleed looks a bit cheesy, but it seems to work quite well for random shots like these.

Red and green must not be seen…

James — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:24:49 +0000

Tweet… without a colour in between. Or at least that’s what my art teacher told me at school. I don’t think nature was paying attention that day.

Poppies

James — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:59:36 +0000

TweetIt’s approaching summertime and all the flowers are in full bloom. Around here are fields full of poppies which add nice contrasting red shades to the scenery.