Amazon loves lipstick! A capture made using the Olympus E-3 set to portrait mode. The Flektogon was wide open. This is an in-camera .jpg made with the ‘Portrait’ curves setting. It’s not been altered in Photoshop, except to be re-sized.
Irem and I spent an hour, or so, walking around Kumlubük this morning. The light has an incredible quality to it and I shot a few frames with the Flektogon 2.4 on the Olympus E-3. Some people knock this lens because when it was released it was aimed at owners of the Practica series of [...]
Every year I come along and photograph how the weather is slowly destroying this old boat and returning it to nature. This image isn’t really a duo-tone because the colour is concentrated on just the boat ~ I suppose you might think of it as a ‘colour pop’ except there’s little ‘pop’, or even ‘fizz’ [...]
That Old Boat at Kumlubük I wasn’t entirely happy with yesterday’s image of that old boat so today I decided to attempt to split-tone it in Adobe Photoshop. It gives the image an entirely different feel, but I’m unsure that I prefer it to yesterday’s image!
Another Muted Pop Colour Image Gentle reader, fear not, this is my last post for a while featuring this shot. And at last I like the effect. Not a duotone but another subtle spot colour image. I won’t go into the intricacies of how it was made but it involved using the LAB colour space, [...]
Kumlubük, E-3, Flektogon f35 I’ve only just discovered this colour space in Adobe Photoshop, although it has apparently been there for ever. It has just three channels, Lightness, and a and b. To quote from Wikipedia: “Unlike the RGB and CMYK colour models, Lab color is designed to approximate human vision. It aspires to perceptual [...]
Yachts in the Bay of Kumlubük You can’t buy a cup of tea or coffee during the winter in Kumlubük, although in the summer the beaches are full of places where drinks of all kinds are readily available. I got out to Kumlubük today after a few days of working extensively a new project. The [...]
Some Air Hockey at Marmaris Point Centre. It’s been pretty hectic this week because it’s a Bayram here, which has the same kind of significance as Christmas in the Western World. We dress up in our best clothing, the young visit the old, then the old visit the young, the Town Council arranges a communal [...]
I find taking photographs helps me to really see things better! It’s like an Indian Summer here at Amos. Occasionally we have a storm, but mostly the sun shines. We got out to Kumlubük today and I shot some images with the Olympus E-3 and Flektogon f35 combination. I like the way this lens resolves [...]
Suddenly The Light Changed Winter is upon us at last, or at least it tries to be some of the time. Truth be told I much prefer the winters here to those in England, although our attempts at Christmas spirit lack the Anglican traditional choral carols. No matter, at least Father Christmas is to be [...]
The Light and Colours are superb today My old friend and neighbour Tony Parsons writes in ‘The Open Secret’ of how whilst walking in a park he allowed his mind to still, and he found himself simply walking and within his walking discovered his true nature. My current mentor Alex Jeffreys is helping me to [...]
Jacob Marley’s Ghost The ‘tweet’ has replaced prose, or so it seems this year? Wot’s a tweet you ask? Oh, dear pilgrim, you’re not wired, plugged-in, connected, take your pick fo the expressions that indicate that you’re embracing Web 2.0. Web 2.0 is the place to which the Internet has evolved. It is to your [...]
We’ve been confined to quarters for most of the day because of torrential rain. Late this afternoon though I was able to get out for a few minutes. The sky was amazing, as you can see. Olympus E-3, Flektogon f35
Not A Bikini In Sight! Summer in Kumlubük oozes style. Mick Jagger once played into the night at Hollanda Ahmet’s Yacht Club. Here greased bodies bask to a golden bronze on a pristine beach of fine sand. People from the Dionysus sip Efes and Coke, whilst at Holland Ahmet’s I enjoy a gin and tonic. [...]
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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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