Documentary Photography | Dartford Market

As a general rule I will always have a camera on me or in my bag. Ever since I was younger and I saw the most vibrant sunset imaginable. At that time I had a camera but the batteries were dead. This was the kind of sunset that turned white cliff orange. Like I said beforehand, the sunset was very vibrant with a mixture of orange and pink. But I have found recently that although I have a camera on me I am not taking enough photographs for somebody that often considers himself to be a photographer. So this morning as I was getting ready to leave the house I decided that I would take my Canon EOS 50D and take my prime lenses out with me and take photos around the Dartford Market that happens every Thursday. The lenses in question are the Canon EF 28mm f1.8 and the Canon 50mm f1.8.

The market has been around for as long as I can remember which wasn’t surprising seeming that after a small amount of research one website claims that the market has been there since Saxon times. Throughout the market you find a variety of stalls selling a vast variety of goods, from your average household items to fishmongers.

I strolled around the market, first buying some magazines for inspiration as I have a photo shoot on Sunday with my friend Laura Giddings who was featured in a previous blog. Please see below for the link.

Portraiture Photography | Laura Giddings
Date Posted: Tuesday 27th July 2010

After I bought the magazines I took my camera out and had a gentle stroll around the market. It had been so long since I had been there and it was fun to just walk around taking photographs of whatever caught my eye and I was surprised at the variety. But then again that is the beauty of a market. I never got around to using the Canon EF 50mm instead taking all my shots with the Canon 28mm and I am happy with the images that I got. There will more than likely be no posts next week as I am away till next Friday at the very latest. I am planning for this blog to be posted on Saturday the 9^th of October where I would have already have left.

Hopefully you’ll enjoy the photographs in this post. In total there are eleven. My favourite photograph of the set is the one I took of the orange stand. I think I might start taking my camera out more to capture more aspects of daily life like the market. If you are a regular reader of this blog you can probably tell that I put quite a bit of work into it and hopefully it will expand as I hope to have an official website soon and this blog will act as a way for people to keep up to date with my current work and see examples of my work covering a wide spectrum of subjects, genres and techniques.

If you yourself would like some portraits taken or would like to talk to me about any aspects of my photography or you just want to get in touch feel free to use the details on the contact page above. Thanks.