Private Eye…
Posted by Fyse on Tuesday, 11 March 2008
Yes, it’s another photo instead of a proper post. Taken backstage during the run of ‘City of Angels’, this is the guy playing Stone, a private investigator and one of the lead characters. The processing included some quite heavy tinting, and is supposed to look a but like the effect used in the film ‘300′. It doesn’t really, but is kinda atmospheric none the less.
I really will write a proper post again one day. In the mean time, expect more photos. I just took over 1000 during the dress rehearsal of the university Dance Show…
A Pause in Rehearsal…
Posted by Fyse on Monday, 18 February 2008
Things have been mighty busy of late in the world of the Floating Face, and
rehearsals for an upcoming musical are the prime cause. ‘City of Angels’
opens on Tuesday night, and with a very-far-from-smooth technical rehearsal
‘completed’ today, tomorrow is the dress rehearsal. I still haven’t written
any proper posts, as you have no doubt noticed, but here’s another picture
to fill the void. Rehearsing for a show gives plenty of opportunity for
photography, with photogenic people willing to be in front of camera, who
are also appreciative of the results. Most of the photos have been, like
this one, shot with my fast 50mm lens and available light. This shot was
partially posed, in that she was already sitting at the window, but after a
few unnoticed snaps I got her to shift slightly in order to get a better
angle and catch more of the reflection.
Father and Son…
Posted by Fyse on Friday, 25 January 2008
This is a shot taken from the archives, in fact from amongst the first
photos I took with my D80. With no time to take something new I was
looking for a shot I could enter under the theme ‘People’, and eventually
settled on this. As you can see, it’s pretty heavily edited, and I started
out aiming for a cross-processed look but didn’t quite end up there. With
the submission deadline approaching and insufficient photoshop skills, I
sent it of as is. In the cold light of day I think I whatever the road I was
going down, I may have gone too far. Thoughts?
A Walk in the Snow…
Posted by Fyse on Monday, 14 January 2008
Probably the penultimate Budapest photo, after which I’ll have to get out
and take some new shots if I’m to maintain this year’s break-neck rate of
posting. This shot was taken on Margaret Island, which lies in the middle of
the Danube between Buda and Pest. Apparently during the summer the gardens
are the Hungarian equivalent of Hyde Park, but during winter it was largely
empty, a hint of post-communist-wasteland to the deserted paths and
vandalised buildings. Only an occasional well-wrapped couple strolling
through the snow, and perhaps a disconcerting foreigner peeking from between
the trees…
Food at the market…
Posted by Fyse on Friday, 11 January 2008
Another Budapest photo, this time from a Christmas market near St Peter’s
Basilica. Those sausages were GOOD. The market also provided ample
opportunity to purchase all the necessary festive presents, which consisted
mostly of various Hungarian alcoholic beverages…
Lighting a Cigar…
Posted by Fyse on Saturday, 5 January 2008
As I mentioned before, I’m a member of the university photography society,
and this is the first time I’ve been part of such an organisation. So far
it’s been great and a real boost to my photography, primarily in enthusiasm.
I’ve been entering each round of the ongoing competition (getting a couple
of runner-up placings, including for the previous photo I posted), and this
shot was taken on a society trip to Budapest just before Christmas. I may
post a few more from the trip in the next week or so.
In other news, I’m back in Bristol for another term and acutely aware that I
should write some proper blog posts this year. Consider it one of my
resolutions, but I’ve never been one to stick to them…
Shibboleth…
Posted by Fyse on Thursday, 6 December 2007
‘Shibboleth’ is the name of the current main installation at the Tate
Modern. A crack that runs the entire length of the huge Turbine Hall, I
thought it was kinda cool, but perhaps even more interesting was watching
everyone else reacting to it. Some people posed for a photo with it, others
walked the entire length chatting before heading off to the galleries, and
some stood so completely transfixed that they barely moved in a two second
exposure.
Incidentally, this is also my entry into the ‘Movement’ round of the
photography society’s competition. I could spout all sorts of pretentious
crap about the many levels on which I feel this photo fulfills that. But I
wont.