Final Images
Theme Two
sense of place
here are the images i have presented in a photobook plus additional ones which i think contribute to the theme but didn't make the final cut
olympus E620
aperture F/7.6
ISO 200
shutter speed 1/400
white balance: fine weather
in camera creative filter : low light
Olympus E620
ISO 200
aperture f22
shutter speed 1/200
white balance: flash
no post processing
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Olympus E-620
SO 200
Aperture f7.1
shutter speed 1/400
auto white balance
in camera creative programme low light
this is one of my favourite shots. the chair is in the garage and my aunt sits here to smoke. she is an early riser and most mornings i would wake to find her sitting here in her dressing gown. she tells me she has had "her chair" outside for over 40years for those moments when she needed a place for herself.
olympus E620
ISO 200
aperture f5.6
shutter speed 1/200
auto white balance
post processing aperture
Olympus E-PL2
ISO 200
aperture f/11
shutter speed 1/320
auto white balance
in camera creative art filter
olympus E620
iso 200
aperture f4
white balance fine weather
in camera low light art filter
olympus E620
ISO 200
aperture f5
shutter speed 1/125
white balance fine weather
in camera creative art filter
i think the following images work really well too. they were taken using the dramatic art filter on the Olympus Pen. I like what this filter does to colour as you can see the green looks really bold. i also like how it brings out the texture of the wood and the darkness of the shadow.
olympus E-PL2
ISO 200
aperture f/8
shutter speed 1/320
auto white balance
in-camera creative filter
olympus E-PL2
ISO 200
aperture f/5.6
auto white balance
in-camera creative filter
olympus E-PL2
ISO 250
aperture f/4.1
auto white balance
in-camera creative filter
olympus E-PL2
ISO 200
aperture f/4.5
auto white balance
in-camera creative filter
olympus E-PL2
ISO 200
aperture f4.7
shutter speed 1/20
auto white balance
in camera creative art filter
olympus E620
ISO 200
aperture f7.1
shutter speed 1/400
cloudy weather white balance
in camera low light filter
olympus E620
ISO 200
aperture f5
shutter speed 1/160
auto white balance
in camera low light filter
and then we move inside.
it feels like so much hasn't changed for years.
there was never enough money in this house for a family of five.
Olympus E-PL2
ISO 320
aperture f4.5
shutter speed 1/60
auto white balance
slight crop no post processing
olympus E-PL2
ISO 1250
aperture f4.8
shutter speed 1/60
auto white balance
in camera dramatic art filter
In a recent Guardian article Grayson Perry and Suzanne Moore discuss 'taste' and class.
Suzanne Moore: "For me, a working-class house is one where no matter what your circumstances, you cram in as many things as possible. When I was little we kept moving to smaller places but we had to have a three-piece suite and a table and chairs, however big the room was, and 20 million ornaments."
This is almost my experience in my family home and my aunts. However i believe that in a poor working class environment where there is a 'make-do and mend culture almost nothing is ever thrown away and if there is anything available for free, be it a carpet or a set of used pans, a place will always be found. The ornaments at my aunts weren't new, yes there were lots of them but they have been there for years and years, some made by my cousins as children, others i suspect given to the family as gifts, either way they have become intrinsic in the make-up of the place. Although I didn't ask, i have no doubt that each piece of brass will have a story.
olympus E-PL2
ISO 1250
aperture f4.8
shutter speed 1/60
auto white balance
in camera dramatic art filter
olympus E620
ISO 200
aperture f4
shutter speed 1/160
fine weather white balance
in camera low light filter
olympus E-PL2
ISO 1600
aperture f4.6
shutter speed 1/8
auto white balance
no flash slight crop
olympus E-PL2
ISO 1600
aperture f4.4
shutter speed 1/20
auto white balance
levels adjusted in Aperture
olympus E-PL2
ISO 1600
aperture f4.2
shutter speed 1/50
auto white balance
converted to mono in aperture
Grason Perry also discussed kitchen
"The kitchen is the arena now where a middle-class person shows off their credentials: they have the cooker, the tiles, the pots, the food, everything."
my aunts kitchen has an Arga - not a new one it's probably 50years old and heats the house, everything in the kitchen is well used and plastic containers are saved and recycled.
olympus E-PL2
ISO 1600
aperture f5
shutter speed 1/6
auto white balance
slight crop
olympus E620
ISO 400
aperture f5.6
shutter speed 1/50
auto white balance
in camera low light filter
olympus E620
ISO 400
aperture f4.9
shutter speed 1/3
auto white balance
in camera low light filter
olympus E-PL2
ISO 200
aperture f4.3
shutter speed 0.8
auto white balance
in camera dramatic art filter
there's a lot of fabric in a house and this house was a mis-mash of colours and textures some of which can be dated because of the pattern.
olympus E-PL2
ISO 1600
aperture f4.4
shutter speed 1/5
auto white balance
levels adjusted in aperture
olympus E-PL2
ISO 200
aperture f4.8
shutter speed 1.3
auto white balance
in camera low light filter
olympus E-PL2
ISO 200
aperture f4.5
shutter speed 1/100
auto white balance
in camera creative art filter
olympus E-PL2
ISO 1600
aperture f4.1
shutter speed 1/25
auto white balance
i-phone
programme 6x7
ISO 1000
aperture f2.8
shutter speed 1/15
i-phone
programme 6x7
ISO 320
aperture f2.8
shutter speed 1/15
this next section of images was about lighting, i was looking for where the light shone and found myself looking at the fittings and attachments of the electric lighting. nothing matches.
olympus E-PL2
ISO 1600
aperture f4.1
shutter speed 1/15
auto white balance
olympus E620
ISO 800
aperture f5
shutter speed 1/8
fine weather white balance
olympus E620
ISO 200
aperture f5
shutter speed 1/200
auto white balance
in camera creative programme
olympus E620
ISO 400
aperture f4
shutter speed 1/8
auto white balance
in camera low light filter
olympus E620
ISO 200
aperture f4
shutter speed 1/80
auto white balance
in camera low light filter
this next shot is my favourite image of the series i don't know why i find it so attractive. it is the light switch in the bathroom and was taken whilst sitting on the loo. the wall paper is lining paper and is stuck down with masking tape. it has never been painted. maybe it reminds me that there are better things to spend time doing rather than paint a wall and more useful things to spend money on rather than wall paper.
olympus E620
ISO 400
aperture f4
shutter speed 1/8
auto white balance
in camera low light filter
still looking for light..out of this window is a view of Lands End
olympus E-PL2
ISO 200
aperture f6.3
shutter speed 1/160
auto white balance
olympus E620
ISO 200
aperture f4.6
shutter speed 1/8
auto white balance
in camera low light filter
still looking for light and shadow
olympus E620
ISO 400
aperture f4
shutter speed 1/8
fine weather white balance
in camera low light filter
olympus E620
ISO 200
aperture f4.5
shutter speed 1/100
fine weather white balance
in camera low light filter
i think these next set of images are more personal and a true portrait of the artist herself and are more intimate. she has only been able to create her own space since the family have grown.
olympus E-PL2
ISO 320
aperture f3.5
shutter speed 1/60
auto white balance
i-phone programme 6x7
ISO 1000
Aperture f2.8
shutter speed 1/15
olympus E-PL2
ISO 1250
aperture f4.1
shutter speed 1/60
auto white balance
in camera low light filter
olympus E-PL2
ISO 1600
aperture f5.6
shutter speed 1/13
auto white balance
converted to mono in aperture
olympus E620
ISO 400
aperture f4
shutter speed 1/8
fine weather white balance
in camera low light filter
converted to mono in Aperture
My Aunty Margaret, 79yrs, widow, mother of three boys/men, grandmother of four.
artist, feminist, red, cancer survivor.
olympus E620
ISO 100
aperture f22
shutter speed 1/25
fine weather white balance
slight crop
olympus E620
ISO 400
aperture f5.4
shutter speed 1/180
auto white balance
in camera low light filter
olympus E620
ISO 100
aperture f5.1
shutter speed 1/50
auto white balance
in camera grainy black and white filter
with her best pal, younger sister Maureen
olympus E-PL2
ISO 200
aperture f5.6
shutter speed 1/8
auto white balance
post process silver effex