Archive for the 'low-light' Category
Full-frame or bust
Instead of buying myself a new digital SLR, as I’d been thinking of doing for a long time, I bought my wife an ultra-compact, a Canon Ixus 80 IS, which is a nice little thing, very well put together. It does 8 megapixels and has a 3x zoom; more importantly, it is pocket-sized. It has [...]
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Tags: canon, nikon, olympus, slr
Free the Amstel Free
While you can now get Cobra Alcohol-Free beer quite easily in supermarkets in this country, the nation’s pubs are hamstrung by a bewildering attachment to no-alco beers from the bad old days like [makes signs of the cross] Kaliber and Clausthauler and Bitberger (pronounced Shitberger: fact). I get that sinking feeling as I scan behind [...]
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Tags: Amstel, Amstel free, beer, France, noirmoutier, non-alcoholic, vendee
Play Misty for Me
I took about 500 or so photos on holiday (I like to add them up and think in terms of how many rolls of film it would have been, and how much it would cost to develop them the analogue way), but they were mostly snapshots of course, holiday snaps, taken in large quantities in [...]
Filed under: Colour, Landscape, low-light, photography | 3 Comments
Tags: dawn, France, loire-atlantique, marais, mist, vendee
Available Light
My disenchantment with Flickr runs on many levels. Part of it is to do with that trap in which you feel like you’re obliged to make comments on people’s photos. This makes me sound terribly mean-spirited, but it’s like this. I’m not a small-talk person. I don’t like saying “Good morning” to people I see [...]
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Tags: Flickr
Room with a Flue
We can’t use it yet, because they brought the wrong size surround for the flue as it leaves the roofline. Also it’s summer.
Contura is a Swedish brand of woodburner. This model (the 500) is designed to fit in a corner (can be close to a wall without fire risk) and can belt out heat up [...]
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Tags: contura, fire, flue, stove, woodburner
Shiny
We ate lunch in an interesting square with a covered market, some of which dated from the Roman occupation, and then we walked up the hill. Somewhere between eating some of my daughter’s frites and taking this photo, I must have touched the lens of the camera. All the pictures taken that afternoon (where light [...]
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Tags: Charente, church, France
Come Home to a Real Fire
This wood-burning oven is in my French mother-in-law’s garage. She fires it up regularly to grill steaks or cook paella in an enormous pan. At the back of the garage is a pile of wood, and there’s more up in the loft of the house: some of it 30-year-old oak logs! Pretty well seasoned.
This photo [...]
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Tags: cooking, fire, grill, kitchen
Sweet on the inside
Interior of a sweet shop, somewhere in France. Actually better to photograph than to eat, I expect.
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Tags: candy, sugar, sweets
Cave Photography Without a Flash
This is another shot taken with the aid of the Minolta’s anti-shake technology (now built-in to some Sony models, since Sony took over Konica-Minolta). This was a 5/8 second exposure at f3.5, with the ISO set to 200 (on auto). It’s the same monolithic church as the skull shot, built into a limestone cliff [...]
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Tags: aubeterre, catacomb, cave, church, dordogne, France
