LX3 LONDON DOCKLANDS

A comp of three images here from the Docklands/Canary Wharf collection. It’s an area of London that, like so many others in the City, is so full of photographic promise. There are two great likelihoods in photographing parts of London in 2009 : 1/ You’ll get some fantastic images 2/ Completely unexpectedly – or maybe [...]

LX3 USA/CAMBRIDGE

Another one from my collection of Cambridge images.  The American Cemetery in Cambridge, with it’s memorial pillar stating  ‘Erected By The United States Of America  1954′,   is on 30 acres of land donated by the University of Cambridge, situated three miles outside the city. A high proportion of these 3,812 American servicemen & women were crew members of British-based American [...]

LX3 LONDON : DOCKLANDS AT DUSK

Thanks to its Leica-logo’d f2-2.8 lens, the LX3 has proven itself to be a stunning low-light camera. There’s a feeling amongst many that shooting in low-light is a relatively rare requirement, and that most photography – literal translation from latin being ‘drawing with light’ – takes place when there’s some light to draw with ! [...]

LX3 MICHAEL JACKSON

For today, rather than a comp, a rant about DSLR mags, or some particular LX3 feature, advantage, benefit – just an image. Walking along Coventry Street in London this morning, close to Leicester Square, there were two particular groups of people. One was an ever-growing queue awaiting the appearance of Johnny Depp for the film [...]

LX3 GOES LARGE

For all LX3 users out there – have you ever actually had large prints from your files ? I just received today 3 prints that I’d ordered via upload the other evening. They’re 24″ x16″  (that’s the paper size …my images are in 16:9, so they’re printed full width, shorter in height) … and all look fantastic. [...]

LX3 / NIK COLOR EFEX PRO

Came across this scene while out walking earlier this weekend, and found that LX3 RAW file flexibility was ideal in pulling out the entire colour range and detail in this image. Intentionally, I’ve used Nik Color Efex filters to modify the image to what, for some reason, reminds me a little of a Japanese garden. With [...]

LX3 DxO LABS FILMPACK SOFTWARE

From the weekend while I was at Excel, I processed this image of Poplar DLR station from the RAW file, then in DxO Labs FilmPack v2, and liked the Selenium toning option, in keeping with the style of the image. I chose not to add grain, so as to maintain smooth sky and detail on the [...]

LX3 REMINDER

Another from the series, as promised, and got an e-mail as soon as I’d posted this to my zenfolio site  http://nickbland.zenfolio.com  … reminded one viewer of his old 4″x5″ days. I’d be blown away if LX3 could get close to 4×5 format film (it’s great, but not quite that great), although it does act as [...]

CANARY WHARF, LONDON E14

Having spent the last few days at the ExCel exhibition centre for the London International Music Show, I made time during the trip to visit Canary Wharf, for a look around some of the stunning architecture that the area is known for. Also, it was a great opportunity to make the best of the LX3′s 16:9 [...]

LX3 – A MODERN CLASSIC

7th June 2009 :  Been meaning to do this for some time – really since the start of the year, when I first acquired my Panasonic Lumix LX3. Even then, supply from Panasonic wasn’t great, and several thousand images later, this has become my most-used camera ….. ever. Given its wide-ranging abilities, I believe the [...]