All posts by Bob McEvoy

Freelance Photographer.
Co. Down, Fun Shots, Streetscapes

Old Doors

On Wednesday 27th October (It’s 2023) the good citizens of Norn Iron were introduced to Big Aggie, or, more formally, Storm Agnes, the remnants of a gale blowing across the Atlantic, or somewhere! We were, apparently, spared the worst of it; that privilege was granted, so they say, to the people of the south west of England, but we did have lashing rain and some wind. Anyway, I was in Comber that day, with the Fujifilm X-T30 resting in the car seat beside me, and I had the photo-itch. (You know that urge you get to make a photo of something – anything…) but there was no way I was getting out of the car in THAT rain.

So, I was looking something, something that would appeal to me as an image, that I could shoot from the comfort of the driver’s seat! (Yes, I know, a total lack of dedication.. A REAL photographer would stand in the rain, la de da de da…)

I was to meet someone in Killinchy Street, – and I just happened to park opposite this…

Killinchy Street, Comber. F=40mm, f/5.6 @ 1/100th sec on ISO640

I lifted the camera, and – there it is! My photo-itch was scratched! Later, on Flickr, the image was elevated to ‘explore’ status, – something I was really chuffed about!

Cars and Vehicles, Studio

Smokey Joe

Hornby’s ‘SMOKEY JOE’ locomotive.  Introduced by Hornby in 1983, this OO Gauge model represents the small shunters in the The Caledonian Railway 264 class. They were 0-4-0 saddle tank locomotives designed by Dugald Drummond and built by Neilson and Company in 1885, later built at St Rollox Works, up to 1902.  I’ve owned this one for a long number of years, probably around 30 years or more.

I photographed it under studio lighting (2 Elinchrom heads) with the Fujifilm X-T3. Post-capture RAW conversion in Photoshop.

Black & White, Cars and Vehicles, Ireland

Nighttime Dublin 2012

This shot was part of a commercial shoot, back in 2012, to illustrate lighting facilities on railway platforms. It was originally shot in colour, and with a much wider angle, but to satisfy my black and white obsession, and to focus more upon the people in the shot rather than the original commission, I desaturated it in Photoshop (actually in Camera Raw) and cropped the image to achieve a more people orientated image. Did it work?

Photographed with a Nikon F700, F=24mm, f/16 @ 1 second exposure, on ISO3200. The camera was on a tripod.