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  • London from the South Bank at night

    London from the South Bank at night

    As the days are starting to get longer, I thought I might as well update the London from the South Bank at night picture from an earlier post before sunset got too late.

    Just for comparison, here is the older picture.

    London from the South Bank at night

    Walking along the South Bank you could see many more cameras in use today than there were when the older picture was taken. Personally I think this is a good thing.

    I do wonder what the London skyline will look like when I next go back to the same spot in a few years’ time. One thing is for sure, there won’t be a shortage of images documenting the change.

    15 December 2023 I took a walk along the Thames tonight to answer my own question in what has changed over ten years.

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  • If you can’t beat them…

    Short hair tortoiseshell cat

    The internet is full of cat videos or cat pictures. So if you can’t beat them, I may as well join the club with this test shot on the Fujifilm X-E1. And for those interested it was Aperture priority, Auto ISO (1600), 1/50th second at f1.4 using the Fujinon XF35mmF1.4 R lens. If you know what any of that means then leave a comment to explain it to me please. 😀

  • L plate

    Kirk L-Bracket

    I like to work fast and one of the things that slows me down is using a tripod.

    The tripod I currently own is a good size, fairly lightweight and sturdy but I still find that there are too many options for quick operation. To get a shot from landscape mode to portrait mode requires a lot of fiddling around.

    Then I came across an instructional video in which the presenter was using an L bracket.

    What an L bracket gives you is an additional tripod (or monopod) mounting point on the side of your camera. So instead of flipping the camera attached to the head of your tripod (or monopod), you simply switch to the other mounting point.

    The benefit of this is that the position of the lens you are using stays in the same place, meaning that you don’t have to do more adjustments with the legs or height of the tripod (or monopod) to obtain the view you had in the other orientation.

    With this bit of kit I am starting to feel that I’m taking the L plate off the project.

    I’m still on the look out for a better tripod and there are plenty of rave reviews of 3LT. But a tripod is one of those items which I like to see and feel before buying it. Finding a physical shop that stocks these is a problem now that Jacobs and Jessops are no more.

    I have said it before but I’ll say it again, if you don’t buy from the high street and it is no longer there you can only blame yourself. Which is why I try to get as much kit as I can from one of the London Camera Exchange stores.