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The dying craft of the street photographer

When I first started traveling to the developing world in the late 1980s I remember seeing photographers using strange tripod mounted contraptions to take their pictures. The photographers used to gather in central squares and parks where their customers could easily find them and they might have attractive floral or architectural backgrounds.

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Cuban street photographer – Havanna © Nigel Goldsmith 1998

The pictures they took might record weddings, birthdays or have more formal applications such as ID cards. In Bolivia I once asked a photographer what took place in the box, while my Spanish is OK, I couldn’t follow the technical explanation, fortunately this wonderful film shows how one of the last remaining photographers creates his pictures.

 

Image digitisation service

We have recently launched a digitisation service for flat, two dimensional and three dimensional objects for museums, galleries, artists and other collections.

Digitisation with copy stand
Digitisation with copy stand

With several years of experience digitising and supporting collections in undertaking digitisation projects we are now offering a full consultancy service.

Services include

  • Flat original digitisation (scanning or photography)
  • Glass plate negatives and magic lantern slide capture
  • Three dimensional object capture (photography)
  • Small objects e.g. coins, watches, medals, jewelery etc.

Onsite training

  • Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom training
  • Creating a media rich website for free!
  • Digitisation, photography and scanning
  • NEW Getting started with your iPad

Clients include the National Trust and Transco.

We were very happy to work with Nigel as he provided a flexible and high quality learning experience.

He was able to tailor the training to our specific needs which proved to be a valuable and cost effective solution.

We look forward to working with Nigel again in the future.” National Trust-Picture Library

Dad, this old camera is rubbish!!

Rather than packing a point and shoot digital camera when we go on holiday I always like to take one of my veteran film cameras. These cameras still take lovely photographs which have a quality that digital lacks. Most of the pictures taken during the trip to Bangladesh were shot with my twin lens Mamiya C330 rather than the digital SLR that sat gathering dust in the bag next to it.

This year I took my Hasselblad 500 CM, on holiday, the children didn’t appreciate its fine Carl Zeiss optics nor the square picture format. They hated the way everything was back to front and didn’t much like not knowing what they had taken until we returned home. I loved taking every single frame.

The real beauty of this vintage 40 year old camera is that it is completely compatible with modern digital camera backs so, when I want to take a digital shot I just remove the film back and put a digital one on.

Maybe next year I will take the large format Sinar

Grace getting to grips with the Hasselblad 500cm. Picture taken with an Apple telephone

Grace getting to grips with the Hasselblad. Picture taken with an Apple telephone

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Do you come here often?

Child play can be seen as a rehearsal for adult life. I am currently working on a personal project called Game Over which documents toys left by children when they have finished with them. If a toy is a proxy of the real thing can we read something else into these accidental arrangements of objects?

Game Over No. 4

Game Over No. 4

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Game Over No. 2

 

Public relations photography shoot in Wiltshire

It isn’t easy to operate a camera with an ice cream in your hand but over the ast couple of weeks I have been doing some public relations photography for Ice Cream Events. They sell locally made Marshfield Farm Ice Cream from a 45 year old former french fire engine and vintage British made Pashley trikes. The images are to be used on their website, point of sale materials and in their social media promotions. Of course it is essential to immerse oneself in the product when you are working to promote a brand so I managed to ‘taste’ at least half of their available flavours.

public relations photography - Ice Cream Events 1968 Citroen van

Ice Cream Events 1968 Citroen van

PR public relations photography - Ice Cream Events

Ice Cream Events

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