Guestblog Craig Lovelidge
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Bugs Binny
Back in 2005 I was taking a lot of street photography. It was a way of getting to know Amsterdam and what it had to offer on a daily basis.
Back in 2005 I was taking a lot of street photography. It was a way of getting to know Amsterdam and what it had to offer on a daily basis.
Early mornings were my favorite time to shoot.
At 6am the city was either just crawling into bed or slowing getting out of it.
No-one was around and the streets had a comfort of calm which was what I loved.
At 6am the city was either just crawling into bed or slowing getting out of it.
No-one was around and the streets had a comfort of calm which was what I loved.
This shot was ever so slightly staged.
Bugs Bunny (if you can call him that) was stuffed in to this bin but he was facing down to the ground.
I simply turned him round to face the camera and draped his arm over the top of the bin. Some of his stuffing was on the floor so I added this back into the huge rip under his armpit.
Bugs Bunny (if you can call him that) was stuffed in to this bin but he was facing down to the ground.
I simply turned him round to face the camera and draped his arm over the top of the bin. Some of his stuffing was on the floor so I added this back into the huge rip under his armpit.
The shot was simple, the angle was right and so I fired off a few frames.
Back home, opening up photoshop I darkened the exposure just to add a touch more misery of the scene. I also removed a few random stickers that had been stick to the bin, they seemed to spoil the shot as I wanted it as clean as possible.
Will You Shut Up
I’ve always enjoyed taking secret shots of people when they are totally unaware that a camera is there. This shot was taken on a Canon Powershot Pro1. The screen can be angled away from you so that it doesn’t look like you’re pointing the camera at the subject to take a picture.
With that said, this scene was a must to capture.
Heading home on a train from Hilversum, I saw this young girl calmly reading her book. Sitting directly opposite her were to elderly ladies. They talked and talked and talk. I could see it was annoying the young girl.
I place my camera on my lap and angled the camera at her, pointing the camera’s rear screen to me. Once I had the composition I wanted I kept pressing the shutter when the girl looked up at the women opposite her.
Back home, opening up photoshop I darkened the exposure just to add a touch more misery of the scene. I also removed a few random stickers that had been stick to the bin, they seemed to spoil the shot as I wanted it as clean as possible.
Will You Shut UpI’ve always enjoyed taking secret shots of people when they are totally unaware that a camera is there. This shot was taken on a Canon Powershot Pro1. The screen can be angled away from you so that it doesn’t look like you’re pointing the camera at the subject to take a picture.
With that said, this scene was a must to capture.
Heading home on a train from Hilversum, I saw this young girl calmly reading her book. Sitting directly opposite her were to elderly ladies. They talked and talked and talk. I could see it was annoying the young girl.
I place my camera on my lap and angled the camera at her, pointing the camera’s rear screen to me. Once I had the composition I wanted I kept pressing the shutter when the girl looked up at the women opposite her.
In photoshop I had a little bit of work to do. The original image was shot in colour so this needed to be changed to black and white to add a little more drama to the shot. I then blurred a few areas as if I had used a lensbaby, this focused the viewers eye to look directly to the girls eyes.
I just enhanced the whites of her eyes to make her stare slightly more razor sharp…
I just enhanced the whites of her eyes to make her stare slightly more razor sharp…
Shortly after shooting this I remember the girl getting up and finding a quiet seat on the train to continue the escapism of her book.
World Press
This shot was another shooting opportunity that simply presented itself back in 2006.
There was no trickery involved, it was simply seeing two separate parts make a whole image: the real legs of an Asian girl standing behind a picture of a young girl holding a baby, part of the World Press Photography exhibition in Amsterdam.
In photoshop I simply cropped the image down ever so slightly but left everything else the same. I liked the juxtaposition between the muted colour of the floor and the girls legs combined with the subtle noise of the black and white image.
World PressThis shot was another shooting opportunity that simply presented itself back in 2006.
There was no trickery involved, it was simply seeing two separate parts make a whole image: the real legs of an Asian girl standing behind a picture of a young girl holding a baby, part of the World Press Photography exhibition in Amsterdam.
In photoshop I simply cropped the image down ever so slightly but left everything else the same. I liked the juxtaposition between the muted colour of the floor and the girls legs combined with the subtle noise of the black and white image.
As you’re not supposed to take images while looking at the World Press Photography, I was somewhat please to have this a reminder of the exhibition.
