Human Intervention Devoid of Human Life

These four images ended up being the final four two meter wide prints for my end of year project for my college course, it's taken a little time but finally I've got them up on here. 

Human Intervention Devoid of Human Life

This project looked primarily at how public places, which are usually populated and busy during the daylight hours can change when the night falls. Essentially their use is stripped of them once everybody goes home at the end of the day. Car parks are a primary example of this, most of the time they are full of cars and people going about their day to day business, but at the night time they are left empty, the mood changes, and they become empty space quite often right under our noses in towns and cities. I wanted to document exactly how eerie these spaces can become at night, they become slightly scary, you aren't meant to be there really. The warped perspective highlights these feelings, making the tarmac and bricks wrap up around the viewer hopefully creating a claustrophobic atmosphere. Best viewed big.

Shot with Pentax K-r, 18-55mm lens, 30 second long exposure

More Urbex Night Photography

Shot with Pentax K-r, 18-55mm lens, 25 second long exposure

Shot with Pentax K-r, 18-55mm lens, long exposure

Peugeot 205

Shot with Lomo Fisheye 2 film camera, 35mm Kodak film

Bournemouth Beach

Shot with Lomo Fisheye 2 film camera, 35mm Kodak film

Bournemouth beach during the summer, Trevor from America 

played us some tunes. Feels like forever ago

Night Photography

Shot with Pentax K-r, 18-55mm lens. Testing out its' performance at night

About the forth visit to here, hopefully we'll be able to visit a few more times before she goes. 

Testing out a new tripod, I say new it was from a car boot sale and was dirt cheap. It does the job

bang tidy when all of the legs decide to stay on

Down in an old ROC Post

Shot with Lomo Fisheye 2, using Afga ISO200, 2002 expired film

We spent an evening down in an old ROC post, pretty cool place to be when the weather outside isn't very nice. Great to see it hasn't been trashed by anyone yet, one of the better condition ones of the country, you can do a lot worse

On top of another building

Shot with Lomo Fisheye 2, using Afga ISO200, 2002 expired film

Image selected from a small series of photographs which involve being on the tops of buildings. Hopefully there will be more to come soon, we have a couple of interesting sites to check out

Headlights in the Rain

Shot with Holga 135BC, using Afga ISO200, 2002 expired film

Holga 135BC Trees

Shot with Holga 135BC with Afga ISO200 film expired 2002

Self Portrait

Shot with Canon IXUS 100IS, with a single simple light source, images completely untouched apart from adjusting the opacity in Photoshop to create desired effect

Self Portrait x3

Can't get enough of this technique, simple yet effective Photoshop layers

This camera is continuing to surprise me with the quality of shots it produces, definitely not bad for the £120 I paid for it a little more than 6 months ago. Compact enough to fit in your pocket, it's near enough the size of a credit card and not very thick at the same time, and can handle being dropped. I should know, I have done it. 

Pinhole Trees

On a really windy morning, I ventured outside with my trusty pinhole dslr and a tripod and started to look up and photograph the trees in my back garden. Beautiful results, I love the way the branches are blurred in each photograph, the wind having a direct effect on my thirty second exposure of the sky. Entirely nature's doing, all I did was point a camera.

Pinhole Portrait

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First Pinhole Experiments

I finally got round to converting one of my cameras into a classic pinhole camera! I've been wanting to do it for months now, but have never had the confidence to go ahead and experiment with film straight off with no pinhole experience, I figure it will be too expensive to get rolls and rolls of really bad photos developed at my not so local development lab thirty five miles away. They are worth the drive and I always make sure to drop in for a roll to be developed whenever I pop back home for a day. I have asked around and apparently there is absolutely no labs in this town who are actually any good. So I think I will continue to pay a premium and do it the hard way. 

Since I really don't have the cash to afford my own (decent) DSLR, I have been in the habit of occasionally  borrowing my uncle's Nikon D60, and if you ever read this uncy, thank you very much it's much appreciated! This camera has helped me attain a distinction for my art foundation course last year, it's become so useful in every bit of photography I have done. Wandering Blenheim Palace at night, skulking through old abandoned military air bases, and taking some amazing shots which aren't possible with my cameras. And I promise, one day I will buy my own!

But let's get down to business. I made a really simple, cheap, pinhole 'lens' for the nikon. I guess you can call it a lens even though it has no plastic or glass lens. It's just a hole in a body cap I bought for about £3 from ebay, and it arrived next day which I was super pleased with. I simply drilled a 4mm hole through the centre of the specially bought body cap, and sanded down the surface to make sure it was as flat as possible. Then, the trick is to get some aluminium foil, and some form of needle, and just lightly press down to make the smallest of holes in the thin metal of the foil. The hole was so small I couldn't actually see it with my naked eye. Flip the body cap over, then use black electrical tape to secure it into position over the bigger 4mm hole. Next whack the modified body cap on the camera and start shooting! Obviously a tripod and lengthy exposures are needed.

This is what it looks like, a beautiful bit of home DIY:

Now it was time to start experimenting with my new pinhole camera, the beauty of digital cameras means I can see my results straight away, rather than waiting for the roll of film to be developed. This is exactly why I started by converting a DSLR, because you can see the results straight away and during the process, learn about the specifics and delicate maths involved with taking photos this way. Below is the very first photograph I took, and yes, it isn't very good! The hole wasn't right, so I made a new one from a fresh piece of foil, and taped that on and carried on shooting. 

You can see here I am starting to achieve some warmer colours and a characteristically soft focus feel you get from pinhole cameras

A few more tweaks with exposure lengths, yes I was doing it all by guesswork. Well, educated guesswork, because where's the fun in getting in bang on the first time?

So I shoved the camera on a tripod, and started taking 30 second exposures of the workspace in my room. I stuck at 30 seconds exposures for a time, since that's as long as the nikon will leave the shutter open. Of course, with the Bulb setting you can expose for as long as you like, but since I didn't have a remote shutter release at the time, and my hand isn't steady enough to hold the shutter down for 5 minutes without shaking and causing huge blur, I decided against the Bulb setting and stuck with just 30 seconds exposure times.

Notice the extremely soft focus feel and the colours which are beginning to emerge from the images, and the beautiful yellow glow from artificial light in the room. These images are starting to come together, and I am starting to understand how the pinhole system works. These are a great start to what I'm sure is going to be a long obsession with pinhole photography. 

J.Zorn

A logo you might all recognise, and some prices you won't. 

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Bonnet Slide!

"The Dukes of Leighton Buzzard"

I got chased by coppers for these photos

Captured using a plastic toy film camera, Le Clic. Using Kodak Max 400ISO exp 2010

These photographs try to capture small fragments of where I visited that day. The environment captured used to be part of an RAF base in England, Gloucestershire. Today the buildings retain their old exterior and are used partially as a business park, although some remnants remain, and it's these small reminders I hoped to capture, with the beautiful faded colour caused by the build quality of the camera. Lately I have been consciously trying harder to look into the sky more often especially since the weather has been so unpredictable it means the skies are very active and the clouds look beautiful and are constantly changing.

Hilarious moment when we realised the security on the premises had got the police involved. A cross country run followed, and we soon got rounded up and questioned. 6 smokers running full pelt for 5 minutes. I nearly fucking fainted.

"What are you lads doing up here then, STEALING by any chance?"

"Stealing what? fruit from a fruit and fucking nut company?"