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I've been really enjoying the Instagram feed from Peter Mitchell (for strangelyfamiliar) - https://www.instagram.com/strangelyfamiliar.co.uk/
It made me realise that simple documentary photographs of an area might still be interesting in a few years. Despite everyone being a photographer, there's still a place for these kind of pictures. So I've started shooting my local town, over a couple of weekends. There's already 200+ photographs which I won't subject you to. 98% of them are pure record shots with blow highlights, massive contrast, edge deformation, intrusions in the frame, etc. I'm trying to get out of my own way and just take the shots for the record.
But a couple of them I quite like as pictures, although as is often the case in these situations, they show the run down, gritty side to small towns in the north.
Handily, when I kicked the project off a couple of weeks ago (partly because of the Instagram above, partly because of a poster on another forum, and partly because I bought a second hand Canon EOS M50 and wanted to try it out), I also found I'd taken a bunch of shots a few years ago so already had a comparison of some changes in that time.
2017 - Still trading
April 2017 by Tony Evans, on Flickr
2019 - Closed
October 2019 by Tony Evans, on Flickr
2017 - EE
April 2017 by Tony Evans, on Flickr
2019 - Facelift?
October 2019 by Tony Evans, on Flickr
2017 - Co-op Travel
April 2017 by Tony Evans, on Flickr
2019 - Travel no more
October 2019 by Tony Evans, on Flickr
It made me realise that simple documentary photographs of an area might still be interesting in a few years. Despite everyone being a photographer, there's still a place for these kind of pictures. So I've started shooting my local town, over a couple of weekends. There's already 200+ photographs which I won't subject you to. 98% of them are pure record shots with blow highlights, massive contrast, edge deformation, intrusions in the frame, etc. I'm trying to get out of my own way and just take the shots for the record.
But a couple of them I quite like as pictures, although as is often the case in these situations, they show the run down, gritty side to small towns in the north.
Handily, when I kicked the project off a couple of weeks ago (partly because of the Instagram above, partly because of a poster on another forum, and partly because I bought a second hand Canon EOS M50 and wanted to try it out), I also found I'd taken a bunch of shots a few years ago so already had a comparison of some changes in that time.
2017 - Still trading
April 2017 by Tony Evans, on Flickr
2019 - Closed
October 2019 by Tony Evans, on Flickr
2017 - EE
April 2017 by Tony Evans, on Flickr
2019 - Facelift?
October 2019 by Tony Evans, on Flickr
2017 - Co-op Travel
April 2017 by Tony Evans, on Flickr
2019 - Travel no more
October 2019 by Tony Evans, on Flickr