Framed Prints of Battersea Power Station London.
Battersea Powers station has undergone huge change since I started producing prints of it in 1985. Then it was all a bit of an eyesore and one developer after another would promise all sorts of improvements and then go bust or sell it on to the next developer. I’ve lived in South London since then and I have a large set of limited edition colour and black and white prints. I’ve used film on all of the prints I have available and I print them myself by hand in my London studio. The print below is one of my large prints at 32” wide. I used a very slow colour film which has meant I’ve been able to make lovely smooth prints at very large sizes. You can see the print below in the London colour gallery here. It’s hanging in one of the smart offices overlooking the Battersea Power Station complex.
The print below is part of a set of silhouettes I made. I’ve taken a light meter reading of the brightest part of the shy and overexposed it by one more stop. I took three exposures; the first over the reading I took by two stops, a second one stop below, and a third one stop below the reading. As I only use film (the technique is called bracketing) I wasn’t able to tell whether this exercise had been successful until I developed the film and printed it. The one I chose was the shot overexposed by two stops. The sun is burnt out just enough and the blacks are very black. This is also a landscape print so it fills the space on the office wall well. There are two other Battersea Power Station prints are around the corner off the corridor you can see below. You can see this print here in the London black and white gallery.
The print below was taken from the Queenstown Road end of Battersea park. I’ve used the rule of thirds here. You can see horizontally that the building itself takes up one third of the print and the sky takes up two thirds. Vertically it’s also divided into thirds, the trees take up roughly a third and…. you get the drift. I use the ‘The rule of thirds’ a lot with my prints. I used a 100ISO black and white film for this print and unusually it was handheld as I normally always use a tripod. I use a tripod mostly because I print to quite large sizes and any movement or camera shake is noticeable when I’m printing up to 52” Panoramic size. You can see this Battersea Power Station print here.
