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St Mary de Castro spire appeal

Using some of my architectural photography for a good cause Photographs of St. Mary de Castro church in Leicester

The nearby church of St Mary de Castro has a wonderful spire, dating from around 1400. It’s built on a tower dating from 1300, that’s built from inside a church (lack of space) that dates from [...]

Prints on a wall

Photos showing the mounting of a new 14 metre long print of Leicester City Centre at dusk. The print is on view at the Leicester People’s Photography Gallery throughout May 2012 [...]

Time for BIG prints

More testing of our GigaPan Epic Pro

I’ve been out with the GigaPan head again, looking for ways to use it for large prints.

The black and white shot is one of the squares on New Walk in Leicester, dating from the 1860′s

De Montfort Square, Leicester – Statue of Sir Robert Hall. Click [...]

Sea of steps

Chapter house steps at Wells Cathedral, England

I’m not producing a travel blog this year – however I am touring bits of the southwest of England and will no doubt get some interesting photos on the way (yes I do take holiday snaps)

Many years ago, one of the architectural images that inspired me was [...]

Seeing your own work in use

I took that photo…

Even though I know that my commercial work gets used all over the place in brochures and web sites, it’s still great to unexpectedly come across a photo in use, and be able to say ‘I took that‘.

The other day, I was heading down to London to do some photography [...]

Out with the 60D

Some more explorations of using the Canon 60D

I had to walk into town to see someone at lunchtime and thought I’d take the 60D with me.

Whilst I’ve been trying it out with the 18-55 IS kit lens, I have to say that the lens is probably the weakest part of the setup. It’s [...]

Travelling – Keith’s in the Pacific Northwest

I’m in the US at the moment and as with previous trips, I’m keeping a photo/travel blog.

Initially, just a way of letting folks back home know what I was doing, I find it a good way to review some of the photos I’ve taken, and early on in the trip when I’m likely to [...]

Out taking pictures…

Out taking some landscape photographs in the Leicestershire countryside, photographer Keith Cooper is captured by the Google streetview camera car [...]

Architecture and the 7D

Some photos in the fog

Yesterday morning I was invited to visit to the new ‘digital media centre’ that’s just opened in Leicester. Phoenix Square has a mix of cinema, work places, production facilities and a range of apartments.

I was not officially wearing my ‘photographer hat’ this visit – since I was representing a [...]

Out at night with the 7D

Looking at high ISO photography with the Canon 7D

The EOS 7D ISO settings go up to 12800, although it should be noted that the 12800 or ‘H’ setting needs enabling in the custom settings.

I’ve looked at aspects of high ISO noise earlier and decided that 6400 ISO should be capable of some interesting [...]