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19/01/10 17:21
I recently launched a new website to illustrate my wedding photography lakedistrict-wedding.com with help from my good friend Steve Tonkin at Ibex Internet. Not only is Steve a great guy, he has plenty of useful advice about making the internet work for you. There is not much point in having a website if nobody can find it so I’m grateful to Steve for helping me with the SEO and hopefully my sites will climb up the Google rankings!
I have also relaunched the stevenbarber.co.uk site which is no longer my wedding site but instead features black and white photojournalism and landscapes. Many of the pictures on the site have been taken from my archive of negatives shot throughout the 80’s and 90’s but more recent work will be included. Digital photography has given professional and amateur photographers speed and freedom that film could not offer. However, it has its disadvantages too. We can easily get into the mindset that photography can be rushed and we perhaps don’t take the time to concentrate getting the perfect picture with the first exposure. Believe me, when you have a maximum of only 36 exposures and you then have to pay a substantial amount of money to have your film developed, the decision to press the shutter button is taken with much more consideration! This discipline helps the photographer judge and anticipate a situation so you capture a moment without firing off 20 shots and hoping one will come out.
I’m guilty of abusing the freedom my all-singing, all-dancing, 21 mega-pixel super duper camera gives me. I do find though I yearn for a simple camera with manual focus, shutter and aperture controls and a fast prime lens. Although I have invested in some wonderful Canon zoom lenses in the last 5 years, the last two lenses I purchased have been an 85mm f1.2 and a 35mm f1.4. I would like to add a 24mm & a 50mm but these lenses come at a premium price and as a professional photographer they have to earn their keep! My favourite camera I ever owned was a Leica M6 and many of the shots on the new site were taken with that camera and a 35mm f2 Summicron lens. Stupidly I traded both camera and lens in to pay for a Nikon F100. Don’t get me wrong, the Nikon was a great camera but it never inspired my photography in the same way as the Leica. If money allowed, I would buy a digital M9 tomorrow but with an extra mouth to feed it’s a long way off!
So if you fancy a nosey at the new site, follow the link here: stevenbarber.co.uk
I have also relaunched the stevenbarber.co.uk site which is no longer my wedding site but instead features black and white photojournalism and landscapes. Many of the pictures on the site have been taken from my archive of negatives shot throughout the 80’s and 90’s but more recent work will be included. Digital photography has given professional and amateur photographers speed and freedom that film could not offer. However, it has its disadvantages too. We can easily get into the mindset that photography can be rushed and we perhaps don’t take the time to concentrate getting the perfect picture with the first exposure. Believe me, when you have a maximum of only 36 exposures and you then have to pay a substantial amount of money to have your film developed, the decision to press the shutter button is taken with much more consideration! This discipline helps the photographer judge and anticipate a situation so you capture a moment without firing off 20 shots and hoping one will come out.
I’m guilty of abusing the freedom my all-singing, all-dancing, 21 mega-pixel super duper camera gives me. I do find though I yearn for a simple camera with manual focus, shutter and aperture controls and a fast prime lens. Although I have invested in some wonderful Canon zoom lenses in the last 5 years, the last two lenses I purchased have been an 85mm f1.2 and a 35mm f1.4. I would like to add a 24mm & a 50mm but these lenses come at a premium price and as a professional photographer they have to earn their keep! My favourite camera I ever owned was a Leica M6 and many of the shots on the new site were taken with that camera and a 35mm f2 Summicron lens. Stupidly I traded both camera and lens in to pay for a Nikon F100. Don’t get me wrong, the Nikon was a great camera but it never inspired my photography in the same way as the Leica. If money allowed, I would buy a digital M9 tomorrow but with an extra mouth to feed it’s a long way off!
So if you fancy a nosey at the new site, follow the link here: stevenbarber.co.uk