MichaelWPlant

Projects: Social Documentary Photography - Michael Wayne Plant Photographer Social Documentary photography Social Documentary photography is something that Michael Wayne Plant studied at Goldsmiths College as part of his MA in Photography and Urban Cultures. He also acquired ...

I am having issues setting up my @handle so it works with my michaelwplant.com domain name for my BlueSky account, so I will have to keep trying till it works.

I was recently taking Desmond around London. And I got lucky with this image. The light was just right, the angle was perfect and the bird cooperated with me adding a moment to a famous landmark image, featuring the statues of Lloyd George and Winston Churchill in Parliament square, London.

Street Photography Thinking by MichaelWPlant Join me as I share my insights on Street Photography Thinking during my guest speaker talk at the Maine Photography Workshops.

@photosbycastillo.bsky.social hi I just had a thought you might want to share this with those students of yours www.michaelwayneplant.com/street-photo...

Street Photography Thinking by MichaelWPlant Join me as I share my insights on Street Photography Thinking during my guest speaker talk at the Maine Photography Workshops.

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I recently was asked to do a guest talk as part of a street photography workshop at Maine Photography Workshop's with David Castilio. This blog post originated in that talk on my thinking on #streetphotography

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I have an Easter offer for my readers and an explanation of how DxO's new User discount offer works.
I just want to share this great discount code use it if you want to get 20% off for new users only

I am on my way to the Photography Show at the Excel centre the first time it has been held in London message me if you would like to meet up.

www.blind-magazine.c... This post has a few good points and yet misses on a couple of critical ones. I will have to write a response to this on my own blog. look out for the soon.

For the final day of the 30/30 Artquest event I decided to make a self portrait. artquest.org.uk/user...
For the month of February, I have been documenting my own life and experimenting with my new Leica M11M camera, it has been a good experiment making images every day.

Today I am testing out a platform for posting once to multiple social media accounts and seeing if it works The service is Fedica.
I am also currently experimenting with process the images from my recent camera purchase. I got a Leica M11M camera and it only makes Black and White images

I have decided to only follow photography related accounts with this BlueSky account as I want ti be able to see photography and not news and politics on this account and I will have to create another account to read and comment on news and politics otherwise my feed just gets to hard to read

Black and White image made on the street at very high iso on the Leica M11M camera

Night time is no longer a problem with the #LeicaM11M as it is able to work up to 200,000 ISO I am happy to use it up to 50,000 iso.

Using a #LeciaM11M is quite special and I am still learning how to process the images the other day it was so wet that my cat WS not staying out for long. I love thinking in #blackandwhite

Today I am starting to share some images made with my new #Leicam11m camera, only able to make #blackandwhite images it is liberating to only think in Black and White. Sunset the detail in this image is really impressive when I see it large on my computer screen.

Tomorrow I get to pick up a new camera, I am really looking forward to using a camera that only creates Black & White images. Any ideas what I might be getting?

This looks like a great way to get a set of images into the wider world. I like this approach www.palestinephotoproject.org/Museum-in-a-...

YouTube video by BBC Trick your brain: black and white photo turns to colour! - Colour: The Spectrum of Science - BBC

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This is truly amazing, and of interest to me as I am about to get a Black and White only digital camera. I pick it up this Thursday. Any ideas what I might be getting myself?

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I think you have to make the images, then decide if you can look at them later. It is more what you do with them that counts not the creating of them that is important. I photographed my mum as she was dying, one of my best images is the last one of her with my father together just before she passed

Hell and High Water: the Year in Climate Chaos 2024 will be the warmest year on record, the year warming topped 1.5 degrees Celsius. It’s the year the US set new oil and gas production records, surpassing Saudi Arabia and Russia. It’s a year that ...

This is truly and utterly depressing and a good indication of where we are heading with Stopping Climate destruction that is coming www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/20/h... Our leaders need to change course and we are unfortunately going to have to make them do it cos they refuse to.

That would work great

One day you might get the 40mega pixel Fuji sensor thereby upgrading your ‘scanner’ and that will also work fine as well.

I would like to hear how it goes and what camera you are using for your ‘scans’, for the it was either a NIkon D850 or a Leica M11 both would have needed to have lens that could focus close so that would have cost a lot to implement as those are not that cheap.

I think camera scanning is probably the future for some of us photographers as the scanner gets upgraded each time you buy a new digital camera. As an added advantage you do not need to keep software updated, I just got an update on my Silverfast software that i will be trying out soon

Does anyone know of any Melbourne (Australia) based Street Photographers who might want to meet up in the next few days while I am visiting.

This is an interesting article from a number of perspectives.

Why Neoliberalism Needs Neofascists - Boston Review We’re witnessing the last-ditch effort of neoliberal capitalism to rescue itself from crisis.

This is a good read of our current capitalism is in relation to the political and economic situation www.bostonreview.net/articles/why... I have thought for a while that we need to rethink how our politics is done.

From my project on Henley Royal Regatta. Once a year I have been attending for the past 20 years now I want to make this project into a book. I am currently looking for a publisher to get this book out into the world.

I am so glad that so many photographers are now slowly moving to BlueSky it will enable it to become the community for photographers that they are so desperately looking for. Instagram, Threads, Twitter do not work for sharing images and building connections with fellow photographers.

Seeing in black & white: the monochrome photographer To get the maximum effect from monochrome photography, you need to understand it as something more than just a palette choice.

@zolachrome.com I liked your article on Medium about Black and White photography, I am in the process of writing a post for my website on the subject and found what you wrote interesting cameralux.org/seeing-in-bl...

I am happy to say that I can now use bsky.app/michaelwplan... to get to my Bluesky account instead of the old one which was the generic one we all seem to sign up with at bsky.social

Thanks to a video by
@andyhutchinson.com.au that I saw today, where I learnt that you could have a personalised handle. I have now changed my Bluesky handle to one that I am really happy with!