Archive for March, 2010

Professor Trevor Kerry

Professor Trevor Kerry

Professor Trevor Kerry

I thought I’d share this recent relaxed portrait of Professor Trevor Kerry. Trevor was University of Lincoln’s first Emeritus Professor, and Professor of Educational Leadership. This picture was taken to illustrate Trevor’s position as Chair of Governors at Brooke Weston Academy in Corby.

Trevor’s author biography from Continuum’s website:

Trevor Kerry is Visiting Professor at Bishop Grosseteste University College, UK. Until recently he was Professor of Education Leadership at the Centre for Educational Research and Development at Lincoln University, UK, and is the university’s first Emeritus Professor. He has worked in primary, secondary, further and higher education, as well as teacher education. He has been a Senior General Advisor with a Local Authority and an Ofsted Inspector. He was Professor of Education at the College of Teachers (UK), where he was also Senior Vice-President and Journal Editor.

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Boscastle with an iPhone

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Three images of Boscastle, Cornwall taken with an iPhone.

When vertical becomes horizontal

Not long back I visited the Lake District, Wast Water to be specific, and wrote a weblog concerning photographing the place with nothing but an iPhone and an App called Pano. I’ve been on my travels again and discovered that Pano also works when you turn it 90° and create vertical panoramic images see above.

Pano stitches images you take with it on the fly merging them into one long photo. If you ignore the landscape mode warning and turn the camera there’s no reason that verticle images can be made instead on horizontal. Why would you want to do that? Well, for aethetic reasons some people may like the long thin image ratio as opposed to short and fat but you may also prefer this method for exposure reasons. Read more…

The iPhone, Best Camera App and Tumblr

I find the iPhone good for abstract snaps

I find the iPhone good for abstract snaps

Recently I have been using my phone as a kind of electronic sketchbook. When I find myself queuing, waiting, standing around or generally not engaged in meaningful activity, like a flasher, I whip it out and make an exposure. The iPhone, whilst being a bit cumbersome to handle, and not very useful in low light, is often the best equipment for the job because it’s the only one I have with me (I still sound like a flasher!). I have found myself taking images that I just wouldn’t with my SLR and 3 bags worth of equipment I tend to lug around with me. Perhaps because it’s less obtrusive and less like a camera and I find myself thinking differently when using it. Hey, those old Apple “Think Different” [sic] ly, adverts have worked on a subconscious level if not a grammatical one.

After the picture has been taken comes the bit I really like. With the use of a few free or very cheap apps I can crop, add filters and borders and upload to the internet, it’s all pretty instant and makes me wonder why I spend so much time in front of Photoshop. I have to recommend tumblr.com as an elegantly designed site I’ve started to use to display just my iPhone pics.

The apps I use are:

For those interested the above pictures were taken whist waiting at Foxton Locks, a bathroom floor, a hotel carpet during conference, a nightclub entrance hall, a heavy metal gig and Art Gallery entrance.

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Cat on a hot uPVC roof

Waiting for the invention of a 2nd story cat flap

Waiting for the invention of a 2nd story cat flap

Recent image taken with the handy iPhone. looks like a hot day but it’s actually a cold winter’s morning.

In Da Club

In da club

In da club

Taken at the end of a very hot and humid night; so hot and humid auto focus was impossible, I could only get the camera and flash to work on manual pre-focused the exposure worked at about at 1.5m. My left hand was constantly wiping the lens with a lens cloth. Used a slow shutter speed to drag the ambient club lights into the image to give a bit more excitement.
This particular couple were aware I was there but didn’t really care, in fact probably showing off  a little bit for the camera.