Off the beaten path: London

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Good afternoon all,

I am fairly new to photography (about 6 months) and also fairly new to London (coming up to a year) and was wondering if you could help me with locations.

I have been to the usual spots.

Big Ben
The Eye
The Thames (looking from The Excel towards Canary Wharf)
St. Dunstan's Church
The Graffiti Tunnel
Plus a few others.

But I am looking for some new locations that are less touristy, any ideas?

I am open to all ideas as I am just currently experimenting so do not currently have a set goal/image type.

www.flickr.com/sjthornton (My flickr so you can see the pictures I've recently been taking)
 
Brick Lane on sunday with the market is pretty good, lots of interesting people there if you are into street photography.
 
Camden market. Seriously good place for photography, make sure you go into the stables. Plus the food is really good at the stalls there.

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I was listening to a radio prog the other day talking about the locations used by films in London - typically somewhere that can be made to look older than 20th century....

Must try and get a podcast of it, do some research and go for a bit of a day out...
 
Thats a difficult one. London has so much to offer and so many lovely locations, you just need to walk around and find them. I've shot in some amazing places right next to some of the most touristy areas, but just by turning a corner and changing an angle you can find something totally different.

Paul.
 
What about:
the South Bank from Waterloo to Tower Bridge (incl. Borough Market - very busy at weekends, Millenium Bridge and across to St. Paul's)
Historic Greenwich - the Old Royal Naval College, Park, Queen's House, Observatory
Battersea Park and Pagoda
Covent Garden
British Museum
The Inns of Court off the Strand, Somerset House

Good luck:)
 
desantnik said:
I was listening to a radio prog the other day talking about the locations used by films in London - typically somewhere that can be made to look older than 20th century....

Must try and get a podcast of it, do some research and go for a bit of a day out...
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This sounds pretty interesting. Please let me know if you find the podcast.
 
riddell said:
Thats a difficult one. London has so much to offer and so many lovely locations, you just need to walk around and find them. I've shot in some amazing places right next to some of the most touristy areas, but just by turning a corner and changing an angle you can find something totally different.

Paul.
www.photographybyriddell.co.uk
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The main issue I have is that I need a starting point.

Thank you to everyone for their contributions! :) I will add these to my notebook .
 
There are some great little streets around Kensington, with small (albeit darn expensive) mews houses.

Some of the smaller communal gardens - few of these dotted around the West End / Kensington

City area - Liverpool St has some great buildings

Borough Market / Spittalfields market / Smithfield market
 
ooo my second home for most of my photography. Borough Market / Spittalfields market / Smithfield market / columbia road market (sundays only) I recommend having a look at the photographers gallery off Oxford street its a nice place to stop for a coffee. Canary warf and greenwich all good spots all tho the hills in greenwich can be a killer to walk up. green park, st james and hyde park all have little bits to offer, the tree rats in most of the parks will walk right up to the lens if you rattle your keys they think you have food, st james has pelicans but you will need a zoom lens.
 
In addition to the pelicans in St James Park (I've seen one eat a gull in one go!), there are peregrine falcons in the City. The skyscrapers look remarkably like cliff faces to them, and there's no shortage of pigeon-shaped food.
 
You have the view from The bridges at night. Also there is a viewing platform at the Olympics site.

A friend of mine recently went on an organised walk in Stratford that he said was very good. There's another one coming up soon at a market somewhere. I was planning on going and I will stick the details on here when I know them.
 
Borough market
Brick lane area at the weekends leading into spitalfields
All along regents canal
British museum
Camden Mkt
Along the South Bank
Three mills studios (Bromley by bow)
Greenwich area
 
I would add the City too, the square mile or so that is the banking and financial district, think the Gherkin, Lloyds building, Leadenhall Market, etc. Go on a Sunday and you get pretty much free run at the modern glass and metal butted up against the huge traditional facades of the Bank of England, etc as the place is almost totally bereft of human inhabitants. Go in the week if streets full of oddly detached, yet chaotically mad numbers of people is your thing. Go at night for some abstract lights and nights stuff ;)
 
I'd like to see what was left of the original Whitechapel area from the ripper era. Not much I should think. There must be literally hundreds of places to take if you can think of them all, a hell of a lot on here already. Should keep you busy till next year at least.
 
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