If you turned round from yesterday’s image, this is what you would have seen. 🙂

The Other View

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• Date Taken2017-05-02 16:13:52
• CameraFC6310
• Camera MakeDJI
• Exposure Time1/500
• Aperture5.6
• ISO100
• Focal Length8.8 mm
• FlashNo flash function
• Exposure ProgramProgram AE
• Exposure Bias

I grabbed this from the west coast of Italy as a rainstorm approached….

Italian Blues

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• Date Taken2017-05-02 19:31:53
• CameraX1D
• Camera MakeHasselblad
• Exposure Time0.5
• Aperture8
• ISO200
• Focal Length30.0 mm
• Flash
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

This time we’re over in Venice which was a really fun adventure and where, as well as doing a workshop, we recorded a full-length photo tutorial series. Productive!

Another Day Another Workshop

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• Date Taken2016-02-10 17:38:24
• CameraH5D
• Camera MakeHasselblad
• Exposure Time1/8
• Aperture5
• ISO200
• Focal Length60.0 mm
• Flash
• Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
• Exposure Bias

Here’s a shot from another random camera experiment. One from the Leica Q one evening in Venice, circa 1875.

Random Cameras Along the Way

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• Date Taken2016-02-07 15:57:17
• CameraLEICA Q (Typ 116)
• Camera MakeLeica
• Exposure Time1/60
• Aperture1.7
• ISO2000
• Focal Length28.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramProgram AE
• Exposure Bias

I like to think I’m pretty good with my equipment and taking reasonable care of it. That the a7R III, for example, has lasted me 5+ years all over the globe, from the USA tour, to the Euro tour (as a backup), to Africa, Asia and most recently my Scottish adventure. You’ll note that I mention backup on the Euro tour. That’s because I’d decided back around that time to move to Hasselblad and their new X1D, as well as taking on an ambassadorial role with them. That’s not something I usually do for a brand but I liked the equipment after some time with the H5D and was interested to see how the support and relationship would be on a larger trip like our bus tour and photowalks from Portugal to Moscow (via loads of Europe). Anyway, on that very trip there was a “small” mishap with the X1D where I (and my team) left a train between Amsterdam and Rotterdam (i think) and well… the X1D continued onwards, alone, never to be seen again! Sorry Hasselblad!

As for the camera, soooo slow…. but that thing did take AWESOME images.

Note: I’m no longer a Hasselblad Ambassador. A mutual, uneventful end to the relationship when they decided to take their ambassador program in a different direction. I’m sure it was nothing to do with losing some of their high-end kit… probably.

The Hasselblad X1D Incident

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• Date Taken2017-05-02 19:35:25
• CameraX1D
• Camera MakeHasselblad
• Exposure Time16
• Aperture16
• ISO100
• Focal Length30.0 mm
• Flash
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

I thought it’d be fun to go through what turned out to be my top content on social media for the year and that continues today. Mainly I’ll focus on Instagram but I’ll drop in a few others towards the end as when they get traction (e.g. Flickr) the stats go crazy. So, here’s number 6 in my most viewed posts of 2023… does that make them the BEST? Not so sure, but for whatever reason they connected with people, or the algorithm!

Number 6

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• Date Taken2017-05-02 18:30:40
• CameraFC6310
• Camera MakeDJI
• Exposure Time1/100
• Aperture4
• ISO100
• Focal Length8.8 mm
• FlashNo flash function
• Exposure ProgramProgram AE
• Exposure Bias

You are not really supposed to use your drone here, but I am also the kind of person that likes to break the rules if I don’t really feel like it’s that big of a deal. I know… that’s the mind of an artist. Also, what’s the downside? There is no prison in Cinque Terre! I think…

Over Manarola

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• Date Taken2017-05-02 18:30:40
• CameraFC6310
• Camera MakeDJI
• Exposure Time1/100
• Aperture4
• ISO100
• Focal Length8.8 mm
• FlashNo flash function
• Exposure ProgramProgram AE
• Exposure Bias

This place did something I had never seen before. They gave everyone a pretty big mirror you can carry around. You can kind of hold it at your waist and angle it up, so you can look down to see the ceiling instead of looking up. Genius!

See the four mirrors down there on the floor? I was gonna lay out like 50 of them, and I ran back to check my camera to see if they were centered before I added the others. Then, the security guard started yelling at me and rushing over! So I took this photo really fast. (You can see her black visage rapidly approaching on the left!)

Inside The Guided Mirror Room

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• Date Taken2015-05-12 22:40:17
• CameraILCE-7R
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time0.8
• Aperture5.6
• ISO160
• Focal Length13.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
• Exposure Bias

I don’t do a lot of these abstract scenes, but I do quite like the way this one turned out… I didn’t know for sure if these long shutter techniques would work well on this subject. There’s a lot of experimentation if you want to try something like this yourself. Of course, a tripod is mandatory, but then just switch into manual and try different shutter speeds and adjusting the aperture until you get the lighting you like. This one was 3.2 seconds.

The Calatrava Bridge in Venice

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• Date Taken2016-02-10 18:48:53
• CameraH5D
• Camera MakeHasselblad
• Exposure Time3.2
• Aperture8
• ISO200
• Focal Length35.0 mm
• Flash
• Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
• Exposure Bias