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The Giant's Red Rock

nobody@flickr.com (TheFella) — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:04:00 -0700

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Long exposure of an inlet at the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland.

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Canon EOS 5D Mark II / ISO 50 / f/20 / 15s / Canon 17-40mm f/4.0 @ 23mm / Location: Giant's Causeway, United Kingdom

Financial Skies

nobody@flickr.com (TheFella) — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 01:02:53 -0700

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As with a lot of long exposures, this looks better on black!

I spent ages researching a 10-stop ND filter for my Nikon 14-24mm lens and discovered that they're hard to come by, with decent ones being even more rare.

Thankfully I found one I thought I would be happy with and took it out for a test drive.

This was a week or two before my trip to Iceland, so I wanted to take my new gear out for a bit of a test run around London. I wasn't going to post this shot, but it's grown on me, so here you go.

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Nikon D800 / ISO 100 / f/8.0 / 14-24mm @ 22mm / 10-stop ND filter

Storm on the Causeway Coast

nobody@flickr.com (TheFella) — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:04:15 -0800

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When I was at home in Belfast over christmas, I wanted to get up to the Giant's Causeway for some sunrise photo opportunities. Sadly the weather was awful for most of the time.

On my final chance, I thought I'd risk it. It was freezing, but stayed reasonably dry. Until I actually started taking pictures.
The wind really picked up and the rain was hitting me from all directions. I had to rest a lot of my weight on the tripod to stop it getting blown over. The benefit was some great waves crashing over the famous hexagonal rocks of the causeway.

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This is actually about 6 photos in one. Although the waves were all in the space of about 20 seconds, they didn't quite all get captured in the one frame. I added them back in, plus a long exposure with my 10-stop neutral density filter for the rocks in the middle of the outcrop.

Finally I upped the contrast and made it monochrome for a more dramatic feel.

Read this on my blog: thefella.com/blog/storm-on-the-causeway-coast.

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Canon EOS 5D Mark II / ISO 200 / f/8.0 / 17-40mm @ 23mm / Manual blending

The Lavendar Skies of London

nobody@flickr.com (TheFella) — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 07:01:39 -0700

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The colour of the sky is such a random thing. You can never really predict how it's going to look or how indeed the camera will capture it.

Luckily this time, the sky took on this wonderful lavender and pink tone to it.

This was at the very end of a photowalk around south east London with Mike Murphy and John Esslinger. Myself and John had wandered down the hill away from most of the other photographers to get a slightly different perspective.

Despite the cold, we stuck around for the rapidly setting sun and were rewarded with a bright, dying sun and a moderately cloudy sky; perfect for a sunset photo. All this with the added backdrop of Canary Wharf and The City.

See this on my art-directed HDR travel photography blog.

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Canon EOS 5D Mark II / ISO 100 / f/16 / 17-40mm @ 26mm / HDR

The Finest Dining Hall in Europe

nobody@flickr.com (TheFella) — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:25:20 -0700

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For those of you that follow my photos, you may recognise this as a close-up shot of one of my previous locations, The Painted Hall in Maritime Greenwich.

Even on a quiet day, this room can still get pretty busy. The most annoying aspect is that any tour groups of the Old Royal Naval College stop right in the middle of this room for about ten minutes at a time. Thus, trying to get this shot took about 45 mins wait.

During my stay in this room, there were some assistants from a film company stopping people going to certain parts of The Painted Hall, as they were shooting a major movie outside the building and didn't want any distractions at the windows. Thankfully, after a while, I manage to persuade them to move out of my way after they stopped people entering the hall. For those interested, it was a version of Les Misérables staring Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman and Helena Bonham Carter. Quite the cast!

This has reputedly been called the finest dining hall in Europe and hopefully you can get some idea of it's grandeur from this photography. Can you imagine eating your chicken kiev and chips in here? Nah, neither can I.

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Canon EOS 5D Mark II / ISO 100 / f/18 / 17-20mm @ 17mm / HDR

Girl with a Dolphin

nobody@flickr.com (TheFella) — Wed, 16 May 2012 08:19:06 -0700

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Today's post has a dual purpose. One is to show you this photo of the Girl with a Dolphin sculpture at Tower bridge while the other is to tell you that I'm off travelling this week and to see if anyone wants to meet up when I'm in their country. First, the travelling...

On Friday, myself and Greg Annandale leave for Dubai for a few days and then onwards to China for a couple of weeks. We're starting in Beijing, then Xi'an, Yangshuo / Guilin / Longshen and finally ending up in Hong Kong and Macau.

If you happen to be living or travelling in one of those areas, then pop me an email / flickrmail and we can arrange to meet up. Or, failing that, pass on any tips that you have for photographing those areas.

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Canon EOS 5D Mark II / ISO 100 / f/18 / 19mm / HDR

The Cloudy Gherkin

nobody@flickr.com (TheFella) — Fri, 11 May 2012 09:15:11 -0700

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With the launch of the new site, this is my first proper photo post, as opposed to adding old shots in pre-launch. This photo has been sitting around on my computer for quite some time now and I didn't really know what to do with it. I quickly worked on it the other night and frankly hated it. Then, it started to grow on me...

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Canon EOS 5D Mark II / ISO 100 / f/11 / 33mm / 30 seconds

Greenwich Park

nobody@flickr.com (TheFella) — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 08:35:02 -0700

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This was again part of a photowalk in Greenwich with Murphyz and John and as close to a landscape as I can usually get in London.

It was actually very, very cold and I was packing up for the evening. This must have been one of the final shots of the session for me. If you look closely, you can see the part of the skyline where I took a previous shot using my 70-200mm. It had been a while since I'd taken a good sunset-landmark photo in the UK, so I'm glad I had it with me.

Thanks for all the comments and favourites recently; my Flickr account has gone into overdrive for a little bit. As always, I'll catch up soon and attempt to reply to all of your emails.

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Canon EOS 5D Mark II / ISO 100 / f/16 / 17-40mm @ 17mm / HDR

The Painted Hall

nobody@flickr.com (TheFella) — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 04:15:50 -0700

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I have done many interior shots from around the world, such as Zagreb Cathedral in Croatia and Opera Garnier in Paris, but it's been a while since I went out in London for some.

Although a very common shot from this location, I wanted my own take on it and it finally took magnificent shot by John Esslinger to get my ass in gear and make the trek to Greenwich. And what a trek it was.

I live in North West London and Greenwich is in South East London. Normally when the Jubilee line is runing, it takes me about an hour. Sadly, during my trip, this line had a signal failure and it took me over two and a half hours to make the journey. Luckily I was aiming for interior shots, as it was pouring down with rain.

Once I had arrived, the whole area was filled with tents and vans and generators. It turns out that they were filming a movie version of Les Misérables there, staring Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman and Helena Bonham Carter. The Painted Hall was in line with the current shoot, so the production company had staff in the room stopping people from crossing the hall every now and again during takes. I managed to persuade them to stop people behind me, so I had a completely clear room for a few minutes. Bonus!

The room has a couple of shiny, wheeled tables in it, so that you may view the decorated ceiling without straining your neck. I used it to get the reflection of the more ornate section of the room. It required a little wheeling around the room, but I got there in the end.

Flickr never, ever does interior shots justice, even in the lightbox, so take a minute and please view this over on SmugMug; it's a much more pleasing experience to the eye.

A big thanks to everyone who helped get my last photo to Explore #1.

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Canon EOS 5D Mark II / ISO 100 / f/13 / 17-40mm @ 17mm / HDR

Hazy London

nobody@flickr.com (TheFella) — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 04:57:42 -0700

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This was part of a photowalk with Murphyz and John and one of my only photowalks of the year so far. We walked though Greenwich all day and ended up by the Royal Observatory for sunset. After taking a few wide cityscapes, I put on the telephoto and picked out parts of the skyline that interested me. I loved how The City looked with the low sun and the smog surrounding it. I have often mentioned how red the sky looks over this part of London and this highlights it from a completely different angle. I love how the vibrant colours of the upper sky contrast with the desaturated blues of the hazy city itself.

Sorry for not being active on your photostreams. As you can probably tell from my lack of photo-posting, I've been very busy with work and training. Hopefully over the back holiday weekend I'll find some time to start catching up with your recent stuff; I've missed seeing all your work!

This photo really does look better bigger, so try looking in the lightbox or even better, on SmugMug. I've also spent a lot of time working on my site redesign, so I'll hopefully have a basic version live in a couple of weeks, fingers crossed.

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Canon EOS 5D Mark II / ISO 100 / f/13 / 70-200mm @ 200mm / HDR

West Pier

nobody@flickr.com (TheFella) — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:39:33 -0800

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It's been a while since I've done any LE water photos, even longer since I've photographed the ocean and longer still since I've done a shoot of a pier. Well, here are all three in one, combined with the warmth of a sunset. This was my last photo of my session on Brighton beach with Julie after a day of science lectures.

This is the West Pier, the little sister to Brighton's main Palace Pier. As you can probably tell, it has seen some better days. It was built in 1866, but closed in 1975. Since then, it's been damaged by storms, been ravaged by two fires and even had a fighter-bomber crash into it in 1944.

The colours really pop on this one when you view it in the lightbox. Speaking of which, I'm looking forward to the Flickr redesign that should be going live in the next week or so. Anyone got any thoughts or hopes for this? Let's hope it's better than the recent, hideous 500px redesign launched last week. No friends page, really?!

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Canon EOS 5D Mark II / ISO 100 / f/22 / 116 seconds / 17-40mm @ 17mm

First Sun

nobody@flickr.com (TheFella) — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 01:19:30 -0800

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Sorry for the lack of activity recently, I've been very busy. This shot was at the start of a sunrise session at my second favourite London photographic location, Battersea (My first favourite being Tower Bridge). Although not as vibrant and dramatic as the shot later in the morning, I like the more subtle colours in this scene. It was just before the sun started to rise properly, with just a few hints of pink in the sky.

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Canon EOS 5D Mark II / ISO 100 / f/14 / 17-40mm @ 32mm / HDR

A Bridge of Two Halves

nobody@flickr.com (TheFella) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:20:40 -0800

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I've shown you Tower Bridge when the sky is pink and also when the sky was blue. Now, here it is when it's both! I've also shown you Tower Bridge at night, but I couldn't squeeze everything into this photo.

This was part of that fantastic sunset where I got to see so many wonderful colours in the sky. Although similar to the previous images, I like the feel of this one; dual main colours and a lot of breathing room for the landmark.

Please view this one large so you can see the details on the bridge and in the clouds. Thank you for all the recent comments and favourites! I read every single comment that's left and check out the photostreams of every single person who adds me as a contact. I might not add you back, as that would be unwieldy and impractical for me, but I certainly have a look at your photos!

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I have removed the annoy post in the water. It took me a while, but it was eventually worth it.

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Canon EOS 5D Mark II / ISO 100 / f/16 / 17-40mm @ 17mm / HDR

The Sun-Filled Corridor

nobody@flickr.com (TheFella) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:02:07 -0800

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While on a photowalk around Westminster with Siany, we walk around the back of Westminster Abbey and she found this little entrance. We wandered in and found this fantastic little cloister and many other churchy-type things. We also found the oldest door in England, dating back to around 1050.

The interior of this, I believe it's called a chapter house, is modelled on the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris. I loved the sense of perspective that this corridor gave, plus the wonderful ceiling and the bright sunlight shining in through the cloister windows.

This looks much more lovely large on black. I've also just realised that my Flickr stream has just passed over a million views, so thank you everyone who as visited and continues to visit my photos!

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Canon EOS 5D Mark II / ISO 100 / f/16 / 17-40mm @ 17mm / HDR

The Razor

nobody@flickr.com (TheFella) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:00:00 -0800

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I know it's the 17th of January, but happy new year everyone! This is my first proper post of 2012, as I've been so busy with work and training. I haven't had the chance to really get out with the camera, although I have been planning some trips for later this year. Myself and Greg A are off to China in the spring, so if anyone has any good advice, we'd appreciate it!

Although this cityscape isn't as pretty as some others, I thought I'd take the chance to show the often overlooked south London. As cityscapes go, it's pretty lacking in excitement, especially when compared to the glamour of the north London skyline, but it's still worth seeing. The main building is The Razor, a residential block that resuses rainwater and whose roof contains three wind turbines to generate some of the building's power.

I really like the futuristic feel that this photo has. There's something about the way the metallic skyscraper stands out amongst the smaller surrounding houses.

I'll hopefully get posting some more landscapes soon, assuming I get more time and can find some in the archives. For those of you that missed it, I produced a video showing my photography from last year (which is also my first year of photography). You can see it at:

vimeo.com/34314964

I know I say this about all photos, but this one really pops on black! It also really needs to be seen extra large, so here's a link to it on Smugmug:

Extra large version.

I'll catch up with your Flickr streams as soon and as best as I can!

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Canon EOS 5D Mark II / ISO 100 / f/7.1 / 17-40mm @ 40mm / HDR

Belfast Castle

nobody@flickr.com (TheFella) — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 07:16:44 -0800

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Sit back and relax and take in the last year of my photography:
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I started my photography in January 2011, so I figured it might be nice (even just for myself) to look back upon my first year as a photographer and see how far I've come, if any. The clip is only 7 mins long, although took me a few days to edit and 11 months to get the material! If you get the chance, please watch it through. It has some fantastic music provided to me by two friends of mine: Beccy Owen from Sharks Took The Rest and Kristof Toth from Pannonia Allstars Ska Orchestra. I chose them as they are hugely talented and two of my favourite artists.

It's fitting that my last post of 2011 and of my first photographic year is my home city, Belfast. Save for Bled Castle, Prague Castle and Buda Castle, I haven't taken many shots of castles, especially living in Europe. Sadly there aren't that many castles in London (the Tower of London is hard to capture well), although we do have a lovely Temple.

Belfast Castle sits on Cavehill overlooking the lough and was built by the Normans in the late 12th Century. The building was presented to the City of Belfast in 1934 by the 9th Earl of Shaftesbury and is now a popular location for weddings and the suchlike. As usual, this looks better in the lightbox!

I hope you all had a good 2011 and I wish you all the best for 2012!

Video:
TheFella Photography - The Year In Photography 2011

Music:
"Sleeping Conniptions" by Sharks Took The Rest
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"Sad and Empty" by Pannonia Allstars Ska Orchestra
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Canon EOS 5D Mark II / ISO 100 / f/18 / 17-40mm @ 17mm / HDR

The Morning Light

nobody@flickr.com (TheFella) — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:15:01 -0800

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I've been so busy recently! Lots of deadlines coming up, plus training and teaching going on. I'm also rebuilding and redesigning my website, so look out for that in the next few weeks (assuming I get the time). Sorry for not commenting or viewing on your photos recently; I barely had time to process this shot, let alone look at others. If you don't get a comment off me and only a favourite, it might be because I've started using Flipboard on my iPhone. It's a great way to quickly scan through places like Flickr, 500px and Instagram. If I see a photo I like, I'll fav and hopefully try and comment on it when I get to a desktop.

Anyway, this photo is of Battersea Power Station, perhaps the favourite location of my friend and fellow photographer Jay (Vulture Labs). Check out his work, it's amazing! I was in a video shoot for our upcoming Urban Krav Maga self-defence app/DVD and, as this started at 10:00 on a Sunday, I figured that sunrise was only a few hours before this, so I might as well make the effort.

I got down to my usual location and although the weather was clear, the sunrise was less than amazing. I waited around for a while and suddenly the sky burst with colour. This only lasted about 10 minutes, but was stunning. Then everything turned grey again.

I really liked when I processed this series of shots in black and white, but in the end I felt remiss in not showing you the wonderful colours of the sun.

Speaking of sun, one of my St Paul's Cathedral sunset photos was used on page three of The Sunday Times. I didn't even realise (as they got it through Getty Images), but I kept getting texts saying "congratulations" and "I think I've seen your photo". Not sure how much I'm getting paid for it yet...

Also, my previous photograph got made Editor's Choice on 500px.

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Canon EOS 5D Mark II / ISO 100/ f/11 / 17-40mm @ 29mm / HDR

Tower Bridge

nobody@flickr.com (TheFella) — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:47:40 -0800

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Although not as good as my other photos of Tower Bridge, I still thought I'd put this one up, as it not only shows different ambient light, but also from a different angle than my previous shots. This was taken after the greatest sunset in the world had finished. It also feels good to get back to posting famous landmarks lit up at night! A point to all the non-UK people, this is a bridge in London, but it is not London Bridge, it is Tower Bridge; so many people get them mixed up!

I'm off to Finland and Estonia with VJ and Greg later today, so please excuse my absence. I'd also like to thank the people who gave me all the fantastic Helsinki advice in my previous photo. I'll get around to thanking you in person once I return! I've been very busy in work recently, so apologies if I haven't been as active on your photostreams as much as you'd like. I'll try and have a look when I eventually get the time. (You may have noticed I've also been posted photos my less frequently.)

As a night shot, this looks far more splendiferous when viewed large and on a dark background, so give that a go please. Available to buy on RedBubble as a print, poster or postcard if you so wish.

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Canon EOS 5D Mark II / ISO 100 / f/8.0 / 17-40mm @ 26mm / HDR

Time Itself

nobody@flickr.com (TheFella) — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:12:22 -0800

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Another photo from my photowalk with Jay and Wide Angle Junkie around the Greenwich area. We all really liked this area, mainly due to this structure and the green laser in the sky. I thought I'd get the Dome in again. It's not an area of London that I've explored before, but one I'll go back to, perhaps get a sunset nearby.

The title comes from the fact that the green laser marks the GMT line.

The best thing about night photography is that it gives any water a very smooth appearance due to the very long exposure times needed. Because it's a night shot, it looks better when viewed on a black background. (Press L)

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Canon EOS 5D Mark II / ISO 100 / f/7.1 / 17-40mm @ 17mm

The Golden Prince

nobody@flickr.com (TheFella) — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:02:30 -0800

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I've taken photos of the Albert Memorial before, but from an unusual angle. You can read the story about the Polish people in that post. During this shoot, I also went for the more traditional approach. I waited until the lights came on and also tried to catch the last light of sunset. I find famous landmarks look much better with a sunset behind them. The sun doesn't always have to be directly visible, but the light should make for a more interesting sky.

For some reason, I feel that sunsets need clouds, whereas sunrises tend to look great with a plain sky. Anyway, you know the drill, view in the lightbox please!

After my last post, it's good to see so many of you on Google+ these days! I'm thinking about how to sell prints of my images (RedBubble is a bit rubbish for sales), so I was wondering if people knew of any good websites, or even how to go about selling them in shops and cafes.

As a side point, how do you think of titles for your photographs? Do you do the obvious, or think of something a bit more clever or moving? Do you even title your work?

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Canon EOS 5D Mark II / ISO 100 / f/8.0 / 17-40mm @ 17mm