Jeff Coles ARPS DPAGB

Q Why did you start taking pictures? I started taking pictures when my children came on the scene, like all new parents I wanted to record them growing up, I now have stacks of family snaps to show for it.


Q Have you any other interests? I like to draw and paint, I guess that’s where my love for photography comes from.


Q What was the first camera you owned?
A Pentax ME Super, a wonderful camera not fully manual if I remember but a nice camera to learn the ropes with, I remember the split focus screen lining up those uprights was just part of the magic of it.

Q What equipment do you use now?
I have a Nikon D70s with 10-20mm, 50mm, 105mm and 70-200 mm Sigma lenses

Q How long have you been a member of OPS? This is my second stint with OPS I first joined back in 1989 and left for a few years when family commitments got in the way. I rejoined again in 2001


Q Have you been a member of other camera clubs? Yes my first CC was in the village where I live my friends mum dragged me in. she was a constant help and always helped selecting my competition pictures.


Q What is your most successful picture? Easy this one “Cello girl”, I have 5 Awards for it and it won best picture in the PAGB national exhibition.
In fact it is a part frame copy from the original taken on Fuji 1600 ASA copied onto Fuji 100 ASA


Q What was the worst picture you ever took? Easy again took pictures of grass track racing with my ME and a 50 mm lens I was convinced the bikes filled the frame, but no, they were just a little dot in a sea of grass I don’t still have them.


Q What aspect of photography do you like the best? I love to manipulate my images and spend as much time creating images as taking them.


Q If you could take a picture again which one would it be? Got to be the Grass track racing I must make a date to do that.


Q Who are your favorite photographers? Loads I love looking at pictures and the internet has some great galleries, so in no particular order Catherine McIntyre, Bob Carlos Clark, Norman Parkinson, Eamonn McCabe, Jan Saudek, John Claridge

 

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