For the first time since returning to photography, I went on a proper City Street Photography walk. The City being Glasgow, the day being a very cold but dry 7th of January, and the light ranged from very low to overcast.
I can think back to many days in Glasgow when I worked in the City Centre, spending my lunch hour and often an hour post work snapping the life of the City. A lot of things have changed since then, a major one being the COVID pandemic, which definitely changed the dynamic of Glasgow, the City has lost a bit of bustle, and I'm afraid to say sparkle. I don't know if it is because the City is a lot quieter with fewer office workers as more people work from home, the negative side of the City seems to be more noticeable than it was pre-pandemic.
One thing that has not changed though, is the power-hungry security guards, and environmental enforcement officers who seem to really dislike photographers, even today within minutes of reaching the City Centre I had a yellow coat out at me asking what I was doing photographing near the JP Morgan building on Argyle Street.
Today's session was a project of two halves, the first taken in low light from 07:30am to 08:30am, the second during overcast midday skies from 1pm to 2pm; the Kit for today was;
Camera: Fujifilm XM5
Lens: 7Artisans 35mm 1.4
Recipe: All Photos are the XPro 62 Recipe found here
I've separated the project into "Glasgow by Low Light", and "Glasgow by Daylight". Shooting for this lets me test a recipe in a spectrum of conditions. XPro 62 is a cross-processed effect recipe, I always loved the look of cross-process prints, so was really keen to try it. The recipe is very realistic to the film it simulates, but I thing the overcast and low light conditions didn't offer the opportunity of the colours needed to make it truly impactful...... see what you think below....
Glasgow by Low Light
Check out my youtube short of the Low Light session by clicking here
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| 1/125 ISO10000 |
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| 1/125 ISO10000 |
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| 1/5 ISO3200 (supported) |
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| 1/125 ISO51200 |
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| 1/125 ISO25600 |
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| 1/100 ISO25600 |
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| 1/100 ISO25600 |
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| 1/125 ISO6400 |
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| 1/200 ISO51200 |
Glasgow by Daylight
Check out the youtube short of this project by clicking here
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| 1/125 ISO1250 |
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| 1/160 ISO4000 |
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| 1/125 ISO4000 |
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| 1/125 ISO3200 |
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| 1/125 ISO3200 |
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| 1/125 ISO3200 |
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| 1/125 ISO3200 |
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| 1/125 ISO3200 |
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| 1/125 ISO3200 |
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| 1/80 ISO6400 (supported) |
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| 1/125 ISO3200 |
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| 1/160 ISO400 |
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| 1/125 ISO1600 |
In conclusion, this was a great exercise to really familiarise myself with manual mode, I was constantly having to amend ISO and Shutter speed while adjusting F stops on the manual focus lens.
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