Freezing cold December evening in North London. Covering a TU demo protesting against the criminal cuts in public services proposed by Barnet Council. Lots of people turned up (despite the sub-zero temperatures) with plenty of noise, singing and anger because they are feeling so strongly about this, including Santa, Ken Loach and the BBC…
First time I’ve used the digi for some weeks so that was a bit of a jolt. Set to ISO 400, SB800 flash with the 24-70 f/2.8 used exclusively. It is probably the best lens I have with beautiful bokeh and colour rendition, and despite what I say about sharpness, fabulously sharp.
Here are a some shots of protesters
I love the way the 24-70 renders backgrounds:
And I obviously have a thing for megaphones!
That last one is Our Ken rallying the troops.
How different this workflow is compared to film. I took approx 400 photos in RAW format (12 reels of film equiv) in conditions that would have been challenging with the rangefinder. Got home, imported the CF to the hard drive using a batch process in Bibble to rename them and dump them in the appropriate folder. Backed up the unmodified files onto an external hard drive (because shit happens…), did the first cut for keepers and followed that with some minimal post-processing. Converted the 5-star images to jpg and uploaded them to snapsthoughts at around 01.00 hours for John Burgess at Barnet Unison to use the following morning
Oh, and here is a last one of Santa (and helper…). Bit of a crap image technically but I smiled
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