Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts

Tuesday, 3 November 2009

'Gridiron', Wembley


For the third year in a row the NFL brought an american football game to the UK. This year the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were at 'home' to the New England Patriots, and for the second consecutive season I attended with my brother and father, a long-time NFL-fan.

In terms of sporting contest the game was a one-sided washout, the far superior Patriots stamping their claim to the game within the first quarter whilst the Buccs faffed around making tragi-comic attempts to pass (and receive) the ball.

I made a bit of an effort to capture a few shots with my camera, nothing brilliant but I was reasonably pleased with a few of my resultant images, including the following:

I think they capture the energy reasonably well. I also noticed something Bruegel-esque in some of them, the sense of a discordant mass of bodies crowding the scene, often seemingly ignorant of others, moving independently and travelling in (apparently) different directions.

Tuesday, 22 September 2009

Seeing things differently

I accidently discovered that my mobile phone's camera has a 'negative' mode, so I can take strange, slightly other-worldly pics while I am out and about. It strikes me as an usual addition to a camera, sitting alongside sepia and B&W. I've seen this finish as standard on photo software, but never on an actual camera before. Just snap and it's straight there. My phone is marketed as a business model, which only doubles the suprise.

It finds new interest from the most mundane of things, under my desk for example.

Maybe next time I go to a party i'll take all my snaps this way, could throw up some interesting results.