Beach Grain
Barceloneta beach, shortly after dawn. Leica M7 with 50mm and deep red filter with HP5+ pushed to EI 3200 in DD-X.
Barceloneta Facets
A short gallery of images from a walk through Barceloneta, Barcelona. All images shot with the M typ 262 (now under repair) and ZM 1,5/50 C-Sonnar.
Manteros at Barceloneta
Manteros at the beach in Barceloneta, having been displaced by the police from around the luxury marina (we can not have all those poor tax-evading billionaires being upset by the sight of illegal aliens selling illegal goods now, can we). Another 35mm test shot using Delta 400 pushed to EI 1600 in ID-11 1+1. Again, a difficult back-lit exposure where the there is little shadow detail remaining on the negatives.
Barceloneta Double Exposure
Double exposure on HP5+, taken in-camera with the Minolta XDs at Barceloneta‘s San Sebastian beach. Maybe given the outcome of recent COP21 climate talks in Paris, there is a fair chance this is will not be an accurate representation of the area by 2200. After the 120 film frames, the 35mm seem awfully small and grainy…
Where did Everyone Go?
A surprisingly empty looking beach at Barceloneta last week.
Future Perfect
The Edificio de Gas Natural in Barceloneta, framed by the contrasting dark and much less shiny local housing. Finally back to uploading some more film images. Leica M7 with Zeiss 2/35 and Kodak Gold 200 colour film, converted to black and white in Lightroom.
Barceloneta by Night
Just to completely break any consistency with the previous uploads, here is a set of colour images taken around 8pm along the beach-front from Barceloneta to Port Olímpic in Barcelona. The lighting here is an impossible mess of different colour temperatures. Setting white balance for anything realistic is almost impossible, so I have settled for something surrealistic. Curiously, the saturation is not boosted – the main edits in Lightroom are to drive up the contrast and add vignetting. I used the DSLR for these to avoid carrying a tripod. All the […]
Barceloneta Skies
People at the sea-front promenade in Barceloneta, Barcelona. Shot with Kodak Ektar 100 and converted to black and white in Lightroom.
Daybreak
A few simple pictures taken early in the morning along the beach between Port Olimpic and Barceloneta. This is quite a good time of year to catch the transient morning light as it is no longer necessary to get up at 4am… Shot with the DSLR rather than film so that I could use a short-telephoto lens (here the excellent Canon 135mm f2). The lens gives a nice telephoto compression that seems to work well with the relatively empty shots, suiting the early morning tranquility. There are surprisingly few ape-descended life forms people at the beach at […]
Transient Eye 