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The replacement for a classic

By Dhiren | Published: December 5, 2010
It’s a little known fact that Terry Richardson shoots with a humble Yashica T4—a 35mm compact that could once be picked up at Argos; however, due its Carl Zeiss lens, it became iconic. For years no other affordable, point and shoot camera has delivered results quite like the T4. I considered many alternatives, for quite [...]
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Special FX

By Dhiren | Published: September 20, 2009
Recently I’ve noticed people getting mono photos produced with a splash of colour added to them as a feature. I’ve been wanting to re-create this effect for quite some time and subsequently found a tutorial providing instructions on how to do with GIMP. In addition to that trick I’ve also wanted to re-create Lomo effects. [...]
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Skins and Punks by Gavin Watson

By Dhiren | Published: June 9, 2009
Pic courtesy of @Rojo This is one of those cliche books you’d expect to find in Urban Outfitters (and yes I did see it in there), but it really is amazing. Another must have for the collection. Just like The Americans, there are some excellent examples of mono work in this book. I’m thinking of [...]
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BBC moves to embrace remix culture

By Dhiren | Published: November 12, 2008
I discovered today that the BBC are behind a project called Masher. Masher essentially enables people to splice and mash their own video’s with content from the BBC Motion gallery. This is the second move the BBC have made to recognise how people want to view and use content. The launch of the iPlayer was [...]
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Night Photography

By Dhiren | Published: November 11, 2008
Smashing today produced a nice post with 60 examples of really good night time photography, a couple of weeks ago I did a little experiment of my own. My recent investment, I mean bankruptcy, sorry investment into a new DSLR body has got me experimenting again. Heres how I took that shot: - Wide angle [...]
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Hieronymus Bosch

By Dhiren | Published: November 6, 2008
The piece above was inspired by his work, and it was compiled with a wait for it…a 3.2ghz quad core intel Power Mac with 32gigs of RAM! Yes that’s 32 large slabs of random accessing. Reminds me of the beast machines air traffic controllers use, madness! What’s even more insane is that the artists Simmons [...]
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The power of tagging

By Dhiren | Published: October 27, 2008
A seasonal post from me today… People often ask me why the hell they should bother tagging content? Lot’s of reasons for this and I could sit here and yammer on about tagging, taxonomies and folksonomies etc etc. Instead of me giving you guys a drawn out explanation I’ll let you do the reading into [...]
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35mm over Digital

By Dhiren | Published: July 7, 2008
I recently took pictures at a friends birthday using a 35mm lomo fish-eye camera, it cost about £40 off the lomo website and it gave some quite quirky results...
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Street and Studio exhibition

By Dhiren | Published: July 3, 2008
It’s been a while since I picked up my SLR, and put it to worthy use. The Tate Modern has the Street and Studio exhibition on at moment and I cannot wait to go and see it. I hope it will drum up some inspiration and motivation. Go go check it out!
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