Landscape Photographer Of The Year

I bought the book this weekend. Here's a picture taken by Gary Eastwood, this years winner.

A week earlier on a grey and rainy day, I was there singling out this as a potential shot.

Having a dog, some wacky weather and a colour DSLR really makes a difference eh? :)

Just testing.

This one is a bit of a disaster really. I shot this late one evening in Hove, it was freezing. I took the film to my course on Monday night and developed it. Someone had contaminated the lab chemicals and as a result all of our negatives were streaky. I've re-washed some of them, I just scanned this one as it was to see whether there was a shot there and whether it was worth spending more time on it. I might go out and re-shoot this as I think there's potential in the subject matter and shadows cast by the streetlamp. Shot on the Leica R4 28-75mm lens Ilford HP5, 4 seconds at f/16.

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Promised and now delivered.

Here's a scan of a print from my coursework for my college project "Similar But Different".

This was taken at home set up using a felt background with some clear bulbs dangling from black thread at varying levels and distances from the camera lens. In order to throw the background out and leave it perfectly black, I lit the shot with a single Interfit Flash Head arranged below. I shot this on HP5 400 on the Bronica ETRSi with sync cable @ 1/500th second at f/16. The negatives were developed in bath/darkroom and printed at Brighton Uni. There's a few obvious mistakes in composition and visible threads but this is only my first attempt to see whether it could make an interesting set of images. Hope you like it comments appreciated.

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