CCC King's Cross Outing 2. People

One of the challenges for me on Saturday was to take some images of people. There are so many contrasts of style of dress, professions and interests in this cosmopolitan area. My favourite is the third image with its four separate cameos. I tried being a bit more creative in photoshop separating the elements and recombing - not sure it works!!

King's Cross London - The Face

Entitled 'The Magazine that Redefined Youth Culture', the hoarding around one of the remaining developments in the King's Cross area attracts a lot of attention from mobile phone cameras. Even the young man who had spent the previous 30 minutes looking at his phone eventually succumbed to its lure. A few reflections including one of myself apparently on stilts and a favourite view of the development showing the matching tones and colours. 

 

Pin-hole Photography Meets Lowry in London

When clearing out my photography shelves, I found my pin-hole lens and decided to have a play with it on our CCC trip to London. With the dull weather, exposures were long so generally I was hand holding at 1/4 or 1/2 second so many of the images showed too much shake to be useable but the occasional one gave images with a real Lowry look in tonality and colours. Also tried a bit of ICM with it which worked very well for me. The biggest problem is the removal of all the sensor dust spots as the equivalent aperture of  f1/152 has infinite depth of field!!

Rainy Walk in London

It looked as if the rain was easing as we pulled into King's Cross, but as I left the station the heavens opened and continues to pour for the walk from King's Cross to St. Paul's. First image out of sequence but thought it would make a great 'give it a caption' image! 

 

Double Vision in Coal Drops and Granary Square

 In the 1850s, wagons from northern England dropped eight million tonnes of coal every year, to be loaded on to horse-drawn carts and carried across London to power the city. Now after a history of increasing decay, architect Thomas Heatherwick has transformed the sheds into a shopping and cultural centre by linking the two long Victorian brick and cast-iron sheds with two "kissing" roofs that just seem to touch. The roof area is not yet open but will give great views over London. I played around with double exposure and window reflections. I also took sequences of students arriving at St Martin's College and stacked these.