General Photography | A Summer’s Day In Brighton.

Late September 2011, the day started with a half plan and what a half a plan it was. It mainly consisted of five words.

Today, we’re going to Brighton.

I went home and grabbed my Konica C35 and a roll of 35mm film. The Konica C35 is a compact 35mm rangefinder camera. This means that manual focusing is far more precise than it would be in a standard compact analogue camera and it the operation of the camera is near silent.

I have had this camera for well over a year but I never really used it, aside from the first roll of film that I used in it. The development of which yielded no amazing results, if only a couple of photographs for Facebook. I got the camera from Woods and Porter, a camera shop local to me that closed down. If you would like to see photos of that and an interview with the proprietor then click here.

the journey to Brighton took around an hour and thankfully the weather held out till we got there. Whenever I go somewhere the weather is OK when I leave and generally gets worse the closer I get to my destination. It seems that my leaving the house and travelling any notable distance seems to summon a stratus cloud. In all fairness I never check the weather report for where I’m going but that’s beside the point and I seem to have digressed somewhat.

But I must say that arriving in Brighton with my girlfriend to be welcomed by a cloudless sky made me quite happy. The car parked, and a short(ish) walk later we found ourselves on the seafront. I would say beach but to me a beach has to have sand that you don’t have to dig for.

The Konica C35 camera is pretty much automatic in regards to metering. Focus is fully manual as is ISO selection. The camera displays what aperture and shutter speed it’s going to use in the viewfinder with an indication to over and under exposed shots. It’s a really nice camera to just take around with you, if you’re looking for a compact 35mm camera with control over focusing. With this post I have included eleven photographs, I can’t remember what film I used because I grabbed it and put in without making any sort of note, but it’s more than likely a Kodak Everyday film at ISO 200 (but that’s just a guess).

Enjoy the photos.

Music Photography | Cardboard Cut-Outs 2

It’s currently 2:37am and I knew it would happen like this. Lately I haven’t really had the urge to write, I’ve tried believe me, with so much that I need to get done I had the desire to write but with no real urge to write. I tried a few times, but that just lead to a whole page of A4 being deleted and never seen again. So I kind of had a feeling that I would suddenly get the urge to write at a time where I should be considering sleep. Ah well, just glad to be able to write again.

In today’s post we have photographs from my younger brother’s gig that occurred a few weeks ago in all honesty, but it took me a while to get the film back. This isn’t the first time that I have photographed the Cardboard Cut-Outs, if you wish to see the photographs from the first gig of theirs that I photographed feel free to click here.

The photographs in this particular post were taken at R Bar in Gravesend, Kent and I thought that I would try and use the Olympus OM-10 and some black and white film like I did way back when I photographed Jason Olveira in Lewisham. There were a couple of problems though, firstly the highest rated black and white film that I could find was some ISO 400 Ilford HP5 film and my Olympus OM-10 decided to break.

My cameras don’t generally break so that was a major surprise, at first I thought it was the battery so I went a bought a new set and alas it was not the battery, the camera is just broken. So I used the Ilford HP5 in a different camera, my Canon EOS 3000 35mm film SLR. I haven’t really used this camera much before. I had got this camera from a charity shop in Bromley, if memory recalls, it also came in its box. So, we’ve solved the problem where I would be lacking a camera but alas we still had the issue with my film.

I really didn’t believe that ISO 400 would be enough, so I pushed the film. I rated the film in-camera at ISO 800 and wrote all over the canister in Sharpie so that whoever developed the film couldn’t be mistaken. The Canon EOS 3000 uses Canon EF lenses so I used the only two I had. The shots on this blog post were taken with wither a Canon EF 28mm f1.8 lens or a Canon EF 50mm f1.8 lens. You may notice that this blog post is a bit video heavy. The two videos at the top are from the Cardboard Cut-Outs gigs (the top being the first and the bottom being the second) and the video under the photographs is just a short one that I found on my computer that has nothing at all really to do with this blog post. There are eleven photographs and if you’ve been reading the post up to now you will realise that they are all in black and white.

There are a few more blog posts coming up, another gig post, a wedding and a few more. I have been busy recently, I’m going to go to sleep now, but, hopefully this ability to actually sit down and write will carry on into tomorrow and I’ll be able to delve into those short scripts I slightly abandoned. Hope you enjoy the photos.

Update | 17th August 2011

First, I would like to apologise for the lack of post of late. There are many reasons but I’m only going to cover a few.
Welcome to the second richardanthonymorris blog update.

I photographed a wedding on the 6th of August as I had mentioned in previous posts. Going through all those photographs multiple times does take some time and I would like to say that the photographs will be going up later in the week I just need to word the post that will go with them. I handed over the photographs on Monday and the couple (Tim and Suzanne Jones) were very pleased with the results, which made me quite happy.

Also on Monday I started as a Voluntary Teacher’s Assistant for a week long Illustration course at Camden Summer University. I’m only a few days in as I write this but I am enjoying it so much. One of the main reasons I went for this was to know for certain whether teaching would be a good career path for me and I have to say I really think it suits me.

As well as the wedding post, I am also trying to write a post about a park I found  on a walk through St. Albans last week. The photographs were taken on a compact camera as that was all that I had on me at the time so the quality won’t really match the rest of the blog but the photographs are nice all the same, and with that I’ll be putting a video with it also, so I guess I’m editing that as well.

I still haven’t completed my wedding portfolio that I mentioned in the last update (February Update) and with the wedding I just photographed and the possible weddings that I have got from that it may be a while before that’s completed. Everything else that I mentioned in the update came about really, I went to the Wedding Talk and I also started doing Video which you may have noticed if you pay attention to the blog on a regular basis. There are videos I upload that don’t make it to the blog if you would to check out my Vimeo page, feel free - http://vimeo.com/richardanthonymorris

Actually, talking of videos, I’m starting a couple of awesome video projects soon, which I’ll discuss more as they actually happen. Apart from that an general life stuffs I’ve also been trying to write. The details of which can be found on the link below.

http://andthenhetriedwriting.wordpress.com/

I received an e-mail the other day telling me that one of my photographs from my Flickr account (that I rarely use but can be accessed through the sidebar) has been used in an online guide to London along with what I am sure are many others, but if you would like to check it out, feel free - http://sch.mp/0gdh89 (National Gallery, London)

And there we are, just to let you know that I have been busy and that the blog should should have more posts arriving soon. As you can probably tell this isn’t as organised as the last update and I could have easily written one of the five blog ideas I have but I’ve written this one now so that’s that. Also, I’m thinking of giving the website a total go over again, feel free to check it out – http://richardanthonymorris.com

EDIT
23rd August 2011

I put the wrong web address up. Check this for my website: http://richardanthonymorris.co.uk