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September 11th, 2011 by Peter Bargh

Photo365 – Day 254 – night drive

A grab shot on the iPhone while driving of the road ahead.


September 10th, 2011 by Peter Bargh

Photo365 – Day 253 – steampunk

Taken in the grounds of Lincoln castle at Lincoln’s annual Steampunk event organised by The Asylum
It was shot on a Pentax K20D with the built in flash as fill flash.

 

September 9th, 2011 by Peter Bargh

Photo365 – Day 252- Carrot

And today a carrot on fern to provide a colour contrast.
Pentax K20d and 18-45mm lens


September 8th, 2011 by Peter Bargh

Photo365 – Day 251 – Apple

So continuing my fruit and veg theme I’ve photographed an apple in a black bowl.

I have an old spray bottle that used to come in a kit form with the Tamron 90mm macro. I used that to spray water over the apple and bowl before taking the shot with a Pentax K20 and 16-45mm lens.

The light is my diy ringlite (parts from B&Q) I decided to crop square as that suits the subject better.

September 7th, 2011 by Peter Bargh

Photo365 – Day 250 – pineapple slice

I sliced my pineapple up as thin as I could and placed the slither on an old Jessops lightbox to backlight it. I then used auto metering and over exposed by half a stop to get the bright effect.

Taken with Pentax K-5 and 16-45mm lens.

September 6th, 2011 by Peter Bargh

Photo365 – Day 249 – pineapple

I have a new theme to introduce to my photo365 blog – fruit and veg. I will from time to time use my daily post for a different way of shooting fruit and veg. This one is lit just with my Gorillatorch

I placed the Pentax K-5 on a tripod set the shutter to 30 seconds at f/4 and tripped it. I then painted the pineapple with light placing emphasis on the sides to give a rim light type effect, trying not to spill onto the background (black velvet)

I quite like the lush feel it’s given this tropical fruit.

September 5th, 2011 by Peter Bargh

Photo365 – Day 248 – washing machine

I’ve finally caught up again and back on track with my photo365 after a week on holiday in Cornwall.
Today’s shot is the inside of my washing machine converted to black & white in Lightroom.
It was taken on the Pentax K5 with 12-24mm zoom.

September 4th, 2011 by Peter Bargh

Photo365 – Day 247 – toy lens

The garden is full of berries at the moment, and this captures one of the species. It’s another shot with the toy lens that I reviewed a few weeks ago. I played around pointing into the sun to introduce flare, but settled back on this shot which has incredible spiralling blurred out of focus bits to make the image almost hypnotic. It’s a real fun lens to use for unusual effects.

September 3rd, 2011 by Peter Bargh

Photo365 – Day 246 – Avebury Stone Circle

This was taken in Avebury (my favourite village) on the way home from Cornwall on the last day of the holiday.
It’s a shot of one of the stones from the huge Stone Circle taken with the Olympus Ep-2 fitted with Cokin A-series polarising filter and grey grad.

September 2nd, 2011 by Peter Bargh

Photo365 – Day 245 – boy and seal

An inquisitive seal and an equally inquisitive boy stare each other out in the harbour at St Ives.
Taken using the Olympus EP-2 and 14-42mm lens on 2 September 2011.