New York - Black & White

This is going to be a quick update. I used two rolls of film in my Lomo Fisheye while I was in New York in July, one was colour and one was black and white. I haven't scanned the colour shots in yet but I've only just got the black and white ones developed (and scanned at the same time).

This is the first black and white film in my Fisheye and I like how the shots have come out despite them being more grainy than I expected. I really want to start using the Fisheye more, there's loads of experimenting with double exposures and film swapping I want to try out. Using the camera is pretty fun as you don't have to worry too much about the shots being perfect but I find it makes me think more about lighting and conditions (hopefully it helps with judging conditions for my SLR too).

Thinking about New York makes me feel a bit better but I fucking miss that place.

There's a few more from the roll you can see here.

New York 2010

Last summer I went over to New York and did a lot of photography and it was really great for me personally and I was really pleased with what I shot (as I've mentioned before). I was pretty nervous about going over again this summer as I wanted to have a great time like I did before and I wanted to take photos again but I didn't want the photos to be the same as before. I wanted to keep the same look and style but get something new and to try taking photos in some different areas of the city too.

Despite the odd spot of rain during the week I had a great time. Got to hang out with some friends and catch up with one of my big photography inspirations (Steve Prue). He is a great photographer and has always been very supportive of me. He's pretty good at helping me out and meeting up when I go over.

It was a pretty packed and busy week, did somethings I hadn't done before like visiting Coney Island and spent more time in Williamsburg. I think the two things I wish I had done while I was over was photograph Brooklyn (and especially Williamsburg) more and photographed a freak show in Coney Island.

I took more photographs of buildings and surrounding areas this time and tried to do more night shots as well. I don't think I shot as intensely as I did last year but I think I was a bit more precise when doing it.

I got to see Rival Schools and Weezer by the river in Williamsburg with an amazing view of the Manhattan skyline. I would have killed to be able to have taken my camera in to shoot the bands or to simply shoot the view. Regardless of being camera less that was a one of the best nights of the holiday. Everything about it really was perfect.

Doing this kind of street photography again really made me think that I'd love to capture more American cities and especially some of the small suburban areas.

I love New York.

I have one more blog to put up from New York which will be my blog about Warped which will be up later in the week.

You can see the other photos from around the city here.

New York 2009

I was checking out a photography community I go on and there's a place for people to post photos of the last photos they've taken. There's always some stunning work in there and the last thing thats been posted in there today was someone's photos of New York.

I've written about my trip there last summer on here and I've mentioned that I'm going back. It's coming round pretty quick and I was having a flick through my photos and realised there were a few shots I really liked that. I know I'm going over old ground but it's made a bad couple of days a little better.

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If you haven't seen them already then the other New York photos are here.