A cut out of matchstick men from paper and placed on an acrylic sheet with a light pointing up from below to illuminate them. Taken with Olympus E-P2 and 14-42mm lens in Art mode and grainy black & white setting.
Peter Bargh
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Tonight was interesting. I spent an hour and half in complete darkness on the moors. It was very cold, but I had a rug and coat and ePHOTOzine hat to warm me up.
Why? To photograph my first proper star trail…and it’s going to be addictive. I used the Olympus EP-2 as the Pentax K20D is not fast enough at processing. You need to shoot 30-60sec exposures in succession. The K20D needs time to process between shots. The Olympus allows an instant shot after shot. I had to manually focus and it was near on impossible, but I managed. I don’t have a remote timer for the Olympus so I just sat and waited for 60 seconds for each shot and repressed the shutter. I took 66 shots.
When I got home I first created an animation in Photoshop, and then created this star trail using an action to speed things up. I’m pleased with the result.
The animation below has loads of aircraft passing through the shot, but these have been missed off in the image stack.
A traditional pub from Worksop that’s been empty for a few years. Renovation work has been done to the roof recently I assume to make the building weatherproof, but the scaffolding has gone so I guess it will stay empty for some time now. I thought I’d take a few shots of the intricate tile and glass work which will probably be lost when the rest of the renovation takes place. Taken with the iPhone and Hipstamatic.
I bought this old postcard from eBay and photographed it in situ. I also had a postcard of the Priory but the photo needed to be taken from inside the school playground and it’s been closed and fenced off. It’s quite tricky to match up well, but I didn’t do bad with this one. I moved it back and forward to one side to get the scale right and then adjusted the camera back and forward to get the perspective right.
A marble resting on fingers, backlit using a soft box covered studio light.
I desaturated to give an almost monchrome feel.
View from the park this morning. I was just out a bit too late to catch the thicker mist, but then again I was up at 3:00am learning how to stack star trails that I’d just taken.
Today was another remarkably warm day, and as the sun was low in the sky shadows were interesting. This is my rusty metal resting near a brick wall, and a garden chair causing the shadows. I split the elements in such a way that it now looks like two photos but it is just one.
A still-life shot taken using my current favourite combination…the Olympus EP2, Toy lens and +10 macro
This is straight out of camera no editing – can you tell what it it?
The fifth in a series documenting the erection of the new Worksop cinema using an iPhone in HDR mode.
A garden fairy taken with the Olympus EP2, toy lens and +10 macro adaptor.
Her head was positioned to one side of the frame and the background considered to give a nice softness.
