Cava - 12.8mm at f/2.8, ISO 80, Shutter speed 1/100 sec
I went wandering around Soho on Saturday. I was making my way up towards the iPads from Piccadilly Circus you see. The top of Regent Street. The Apple Store I spent so much time in when I was off ill for a few months at the end of last year. It was slightly chaotic with so many people crowding around the iPad tables, you really couldn't even see an iPad when you walked in. Unfortunately my time was rather limited in London this weekend and I only had an hour or so to shoot with my Leica D-Lux 4. I really should get out of bed a bit earlier on a Saturday.
There are a lot of small shop fronts in Soho, and I thought I'd try and photograph as many unusual ones as I could find in the time I had. The store above, is a butcher I believe. It still seems a little odd that someone is sitting down with a drink at the front of it. I guess they sell wine too. The meat hanging in the window isn't actually real. But it does look really gory from a distance. A bit like Texas Chainsaw Massacre comes to Soho, only with less screaming.
England - 5.9mm at f/2.2, ISO 80, Shutter speed 1/250 sec
The building in the photograph above isn't really a shop of course, but I thought it looked really incredible processed with Ilford film. The paving and the brick work really came out great (in my opinion).
As for the gun maker's shop, John Wilkes, with the musical instruments hanging in the front windows, you could be forgiven for not having the slightest idea what was actually for sale inside the shop. Certainly not guns. This isn't Texas. They actually sell art work. I thought the front of the shop looked really well preserved and it would be interesting to know how old it is. I thought it would work quite well processing the shot starting with the Pinhole preset in
Silver Efex Pro.
John Wilkes Rifle Maker - 6.8mm at f/2.2, ISO 80, Shutter speed 1/500 sec
I've included the
Silver Efex Pro presets for all three of these photographs at the end of this post. The top image was processed with Kodak 100 TMAX Pro film and then I applied a custom split tone to it. The middle image was sent through a green filter and processed with Ilford Delta 100 Pro film. The toning is simply the Selenium 15 preset with no modification at all and the final image above I started with the Pinhole preset and applied Ilford Delta 400 Pro film and again it's a Selenium toner but slightly lighter than the previous, with preset 14 my choice this time.
