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Woman in Red
Shawl
3 John had to be
careful not to spoil
his compositions by
including any other
members of the
public in the frame.
Sony Alpha 6000,
16-70mm, 1/50sec
at f/8, ISO 400Man with Pipe
1 All the portraits on
these pages are of
the Ragged Victorians
living history group,
taken at an event at
the SS Great Britain
Museum in Bristol.
Sony Alpha 6000,
16-70mm, 1/40sec
at f/9, ISO 400John Blackman, Weymouth
It was when he was in his late teens that John
realised the prints he got from his local chemist
didn’t cut the mustard, and so he learned how to
print his own negatives. Having spent many years
photographing anything to do with aviation and
military vehicles, since retiring to Dorset he has focused on
landscapes and – as shown here – history re-enactors. ‘They
are a gift to photographers,’ he says. He has a Facebook
page called, ‘So many subjects, so little time’, which pretty
much sums up his attitude to photography.
3John Blackman, Weymouth
It was when he was in his late teens that John
realised the prints he got fromhis local chemist
didn’t cut the mustard, and so he learned how to
print his own negatives. Having spent many years
photographing anything to do with aviation and
military vehicles, since retiring to Dorset he has focused on
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