Power Retouch Simulation Of A Paladium Print Amazon, Irem and I are in Istanbul and on the rounds of the family icons. Ismet Hala is Irem’s aunt, and the oldest member of the family on her father’s side. She is a wonderfully cheerful and sanguine character whom I always enjoy seeing. Today was no exception [...]
When my Dad was about the age that I am now we bought a Gnome Beta II enlarger with a moderately good lens and set about processing our own films and making prints. Truth be told it was far easier to process films at Blandford Grammar School’s Camera Club than at home because the school [...]
The Bosphorus, (11-22mm Zuiko at 11mm) I always enjoy visiting Altın Yenge, and Irem’s cousin Ceren. I have known them now for nearly twelve years. They live in an apartment on the Bosphorus near Hisar which enjoys superb views. Today when we visited everyone was in good form. Amazon Likes To Play With These Russian [...]
Olympus E-400, an eighth of a second at F 1.4 This portrait of Irem’s brother Emre was taken by the light of three small light bulbs enclosed in decorative coloured filters similar to these: Decorative Lights For Sale In Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar Own A Camera? If you found this article of interest you may wish [...]
The view from Aşegül’s terrace . . . . . . is equally impressive at night It’s Irem’s brother and sister-in-law’s wedding anniversary. It’s also my birthday. It’s Irem’s brother’s birthday tomorrow. It was Irem and my wedding anniversary two days ago. It’s all a bit much really and I’m getting sick of cake and [...]
Amazon and Granny take to the water! Just when I thought I had seen everything I spied Amazon’s granny heading off with my princess in one of the ‘dodgem’ boats at Ümraniye Carrefour. The image above makes it seem as if Granny is in control, but that is a photographic illusion. In fact the boat [...]
It’s Ramazan here but as a child, and part yabanci, she isn’t expected to conform. Dondurmas as usual at Amos Restaurant. My friend Sir Michael Carr-Jones loves ice-cream pictures pictures, so these are dedicated to him, and Lynne. I’ve eaten the ice cream what’s to do now? There’s more there, if I suck . . [...]
Kumlubük: It’s nice to be in your embrace! It was once a fashion in photography to warm landscape images using an 81c warm-up filter. This emulated the colour temperature of evening light in an attempt to take a mediocre photograph and make it more appealing. It rarely worked, except when done by true landscape professionals [...]
Lit By The Moon And A Street Lamp We were zooming up the hill toward Phillip’s house, where I intended to park the jeep this evening, when we spied Timur emerging from a taxi. “Can’t stop”, we shouted, “We’re on our way to Jürgen’s and must be there by five.” “No problem”, Timur retorted, “I’m [...]
Peace, For those of us who live here all the year around, Autumn, and Spring are the best times of the year. When it’s raining in Istanbul, or Manchester, you may be sure that the sun shines in Turunç, yet it’s not too hot. Today after venturing to the weekly market we sat for a [...]
Eminönü is given the antique treatment in the sunshine of Amos Peter and Pat are here bringing with them ‘The Tatler’ and ‘Practical Photography’. If Baz is reading this please ask Alice to bring a copy of ‘Vogue’ with her. I spent the morning digesting some of the techniques for Black and White processing in [...]
The original of this image, when enlarged has punchy grain! Inspired by the October issue of Practical Photography, and able to work in the open-air, rather than a darkroom, I decided today to make a simulated Lithium image. It’s years since I did this for real with chemicals so I was curious to see how [...]
A natural light shot taken with the FinePix E-900 Here’s a natural light photo of Irem, captured in Ümraniye Carrefour with the Fuji Finepix® E-900. It’s a nice likeness of the kind anyone might produce with their compact camera. But really Irem deserves some more appealing post production, so today I set out by first [...]
Another View Of Kumlubük After several days of monochrome I was aiming at some true National Geographic style colour saturation in this reportage on Kumlubük. The picture above shows some of the homes built into the hill and probably not even noticed by people approaching Kumlubük using the boat service from Marmaris. It’s possible that [...]
Moonscape! A few minutes after we had photographed the dreadful tip at Kumlubük we were at Damlas’ where we found her making her own picture of the moon. She invited me to attempt a shot from her balcony but without a tripod this was the best I could manage. The trick with this kind of [...]
Olympus E-400, Leica/Panasonic Summilux 25mm at F4 Above is a quick snapshot of Amazon. The Olympus RAW file was converted to monochrome in Bibble Pro version 4.95, using the Andy plug-in, simulating Agfa-AgfaPan 25 with a number 2 filter for the paper. So far so good. Tightly Cropped The great British photographer Bailey had a [...]
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Stephen Jeremy Maxwell Bray lives with his wife Irem, and daughter Amazon at Amos, Turunc near Marmaris, Turkey..
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