Boy meets camera

I’m outa here

Spencer — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:29:35 +0000

So i’ve started a new blog, over at http://spencerpayton.tumblr.com basically it’s much easier to use than wordpress, and allows for 100% customization through html so I can make it look how I want. From now on i’ll be blogging over there, not everyday but when I can I will.

Peace!

Note to self

Spencer — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:51:49 +0000

I really must update this more often.

I’ve got a shit load of film to develop and a few hundred digital files to sort through too.

The weather’s been so nice recently and I just couldn’t hide myself away in the darkroom. But this week i’m going to force myself in there for a few hours and catch up.

18 18 18

Spencer — Sat, 10 May 2008 12:00:29 +0000

Last week was my birthday, 18th to be precise, heres to legally drinking!

Spend the night in Mercy, absolute killer. Didn’t really take many pictures myself, these are from Aaron or the Mercy photographers,

Everyone having a grab of the birthday boy

Everyone whose living in the UK reading this (my end anyway), how bloody good is the weather at the moment!

Nothing like sitting in the sun having a beer, going through photo’s that you have absolutely no recognition of being in/taking.

Cheers for reading,

S! x

Lethal Enforcer

Spencer — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:31:41 +0000

Last few weeks have been the same as usual really, drinking large amounts, partying and coching with friends. Last saturday was a big drinking session with a few friends from college. Started at mine before heading down to the local pub, that was as far as we made it.

Got a whole film from that night as well, which I will try and get done over the next week or so, once I find time, busy week this week, what with birthday (hell yeah!) and what not.

Quite ironic writing a photo blog, whilst watching one hour photo. God this film is freaky, on a whole new level, hate to think what some people must think when they see me with a camera in my hands.

Must dash, eating pizza and trying to get college work done with Aaron.

peace x

Where the hell

Spencer — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:19:36 +0000

Have you been?

Answers are below in pictures,

Lots of partying.

Gigs.

Drinking.

Cooking.

Anyway, since this is my first blog post in absolutely ages, just thought i’d change things a little, rather than just post the ‘good’ photos on here, i’m going to post most of the pictures I take, whether they be drunk moments or just daily things. Thought i’d change this because all pictures are memories, rather than have just the picture some words with it would be nice as well, so there you go, thats my plan set. Also means I can write this much more, rather than waiting for me to develop film etc.

Hope all are well!

Party.

Spencer — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:33:02 +0000

So Friday before last it was one of my best friends birthdays, naturally we got stupidly drunk.

Flossy (name due to the epic hair) making some calls.

Birthday boy and his lady, gone at this point I imagine.

erm.

Birthday drinks x1000

Thats it from the party, wish i’d taken more though guess I was more intrested in drinking. Anyway, got a shed load of film to develop/get developed.

Night!

p.s. I need a holiday

Meter?

Spencer — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:55:19 +0000

This week i’ve been shooting with an old manual tamrom 28-70 3.5 lens on my D70. No metering here so I had to do it all myself, quite enjoyed it too, something different since all my cameras (except the diacord) have metering.

I don’t have any idea why he was reading the dictionary

I’ve decided that for processing digital I much prefer lightroom. This was converted in ps and for some reason I can’t produce the same tones as the conversions in lightroom .

That night I went to dog training,

This dog weighed 16 stone, honest.

I would have loved to have taken more pictures that night, but I didn’t want to put people off who were trying to train their dogs.

I really like the field of view which I get from a 28mm on a digital crop, this is making me think of getting the 28mm 1.8 or maybe even the 24 1.8.

Hopefully there will be some film in the next few days, i’ve got one roll of tri-x to develop and a roll of fuji pro 400h.

Bye!

More tea home boy?

Spencer — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:23:40 +0000

Seems to be now that when i’m not photographing/at college i’m drinking. This leads to stupid situations very much like the one above, I have no memory of.

This weekend was quite a quiet one, just met up with Kerry an old friend of mine, we go way back and just had lots of stuff to catch up on.

Shes the one the end, hi kez!

It’s good fun to take the digi cam out on the drink with you, since I often can’t be assed to focus and correct for film, unless it’s in the XA2 or X-300, I can take pictures and not actually lose myself from the atmosphere which is hard learning when to take pictures and when to hang it up and join in with the onslaught.

Film comming soon.

Night.

Project.

Spencer — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:49:09 +0000

We’re not really that far into ’08 yet so I thought that it would be the right time to start a new photographic project, just something to keep me on my toes and a sure way that I will be producing work on a regular basis. Stpiduko wrote a few weeks back about a project which he has started inspired from “The Ongoing Moment” which involves taking pictures of 10 subjects varying from a park bench to a blind person. Reading this I then came up with the idea of going through the alphabet, 26 letters and comming up with a subject beginning with each of the letters, I believe that it can be done, or at least I will give it a go, maybe not in order though.

In the next day or so I will list the subjects I have came up with,

Start something.

Spencer — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:30:03 +0000

New blog Spencer?

“Yeah my website payments ran out as I changed cards, and I couldn’t be assed to re-new them”

Anyway pictures from the christmas period, digital and film.

First off, dogs in the garden.

Then onto christmas, you know that day of the year when you do nothing but sit around drinking and eating more than your own weight in food.

How the hell mince pies became so damn popular I don’t know.

A nice little christmas self there.

Dad there, taking some pictures of the fish. Got them on my current roll somewhere too.

Check, delete, re shoot. You know the way.

The family, laughing over some group pictures which my grandad took of us all.

More on why the blog has now been started here. My old website which I paid for was feeling like a stale collection of images so I thought rather than have a gallery I would just blog off my domain. Which I then realized I had 10gb of web space which I wasn’t even using because all of my pictures where being hosted through flickr anyway. Keeping up? So I decided to blog from a free .wordpress account and then just (once it runs out) point my domain here. For now I will just set up a .co.uk so it looks half decent.

I’ve got a roll of tri-x which I will get developed later in the week and a roll of 400h in at the moment almost done.

Thanks to anyone who read this,

night all,