This is just a quick post to share with you a few of photos i’ve taken recently, and a little (tiny) bit about them.
Speeding Tube by Andrew Stuart
A nice simple shot above. A tube speeding away from the station. Well, I say speeding – seeing as the trains reach averages of 20.5mph in central London, where the stations are closer together – it’s not really going that fast. Fisheye, 1/30th and hold it steady. It worked.
The National Gallery, London by Andrew Stuart
The National Gallery on Trafalgar Square. Everyone takes a shot at the National Gallery. I must have seen about 10 people with professional (by that I mean cost more than the average tourist snapshot camera), and many more with point and click cameras in the time I was there. This was achieved with a Joby Gorillapod Tripod on the bollards, and a fisheye lens, long exposure of a few seconds and a cable release.
St Martin in the Fields church by Andrew Stuart
Same sort of thing. Gorillapod, which makes it easier to take long exposures in central London without lugging a huge tripod around, and cable release. Incidentally, you can’t use tripods in Royal Parks on Trafalgar Square without a permit, and you can’t take photographs for commercial purposes without one either. Gorillapod does the trick. ‘Why would a professional use such a flimsy looking thing on his camera?’ Ergo, no wardens ask what i’m doing. They might have asked these, though.
To finish off, I have this one of Bush House:
The BBC World Service currently inhabits Bush House. They have studios ranging from state of the art digital production suites to reliably analogue studios that look awfully like a Russian missile silo. The building is fantastic and imposing, and used to be a hotel. If you ever get the chance to go inside and have a look, do so.
I have more photographs on my 500px account, Flickr account, and most likely here on this blog. I’ll post more as and when I feel necessary.
