Photography News Issue 54

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Editor’s letter FromSkegness toMilan

Like many people I spend a good deal of time sitting in front of a keyboard, but the past month has been an exception and I’ve racked up a few miles both on the road and in the air, from Skegness to Bath and Milan via the BirminghamNEC. Thanks to everyone who got to the NEC for The Photography Show and came to say hello on the Photography News stand, especially those who fought through the snow to get there. Judging by the bag-laden visitors around the show, a lot of money was spent on the latest photo gear – tripods seemed especially popular this year. I managed to keep my own spending down to a budget drone – not for any photographic purpose but because I wanted a remote-control toy to play with. My trip to Skegness, which also took in Cleethorpes, was to continue my ongoing quest to photograph every surviving UK pier. I’ve done just shy of 40 piers now and according to the National Piers Society there are 59 so I’m getting there. The problem is that I’ve done many of the more accessible ones for me and I’ve got many more miles to do before I finish the project. Piers in Scotland, the Isle of Wight, Wales and various far-flung parts of England have yet to be done. I reckon it’ll be another year before the project is complete – that’s partly the consequence of not working on it during the summer months. Skegness pier was a challenge on several fronts. For one thing itwas closed for the season and while it’s no problem getting general pictures of it, I like to get on the pier for a proper look and to soak up some of its atmosphere. Next, the tide was on its way out and already clear of the pier so no chance of capturing blurry water during a long exposure, and I didn’t have time to hang around for six hours for the tide to return. Final thing was the light. It was a grey, flat day with no sky detail at all and to put the tin hat on it, the rain started ten minutes after I got out of the car.

Despite everything that was against me, I persevered and came with away with an image that Iwas happywith, and that ismy aim for each pier. I was much happier with my shots of Cleethorpes pier. I could get on it, it was photogenic and I hadmore time so I didmanage to hang around long enough for some tidal blur. Also the rain had relented and I even got some sky detail. It’s great when it all comes together,whichmakes it all themore frustrating when it doesn’t. All round though, Iwas happywithmy brief pier tour and gratified to tick off two more. My long weekend Milan trip was courtesy of Canon. A handful of photo journos had been invited to enjoy some shooting in the city culminating in a session at the World Figure Skating Championships. There I shot for around 40 minutes and racked up to close to 1800 pictures through a Canon EOS-1D X Mark II fitted with a 100-400mm lens. That is a lot of frames but at 14 frames-per-second with full AF and autoexposure it was easily done. As technical challenges go, for me it was right up there. The rink was lit by constantly changing coloured spotlights whichmeant that to get action-stopping shutter speeds, I was shooting at ISO 10,000. Havingvery limitedexperience of ice skating (I did watch Torvill and Dean on TV winning Olympic Gold in 1984 with Bolero!) didn’t help much either. But having now sifted through the shots I ammightily impressedwith the Canon’s AF skills. I got a good number of sharp shots and I’m sure my hit rate would have been even higher withmore practice. Well, I’m off for a rest so see you again next time.

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