Sometimes you may not be prepared. I’d gone on Stanage Edge today and took the Olympus EP2 with 17mm lens (about 35mm in 35mm format) I intended to do a few landscapes. I spotted a hot air balloon and wished I’d taken a long lens. Here’s my shot. The balloon is a dot in the sky so I’ve added an arrow. It would have still been a small dot even with a long lens. I’d love to have been in that balloon.
The title of the photo365 photo is courtesy of the indie band Artery.
Last week was Mothering Sunday, almost one week later the flowers are wilting. Time for a photo! It’s taken against an aluminium camera case backdrop and window lit.
This is what you get if you lay down on the floor and poke a macro lens (set to a wide aperture) through the grass. I moved around to find the most pleasing view. A single blade of grass with its companions totally out of focus thanks to the shallow depth of field.
It’s a technique I use often and you can have loads of fun poking the lens around.
I pointed the iphone straight up early this evening to record the tree branches filling the blue void. To the bottom left is a vapour trail.
Photographers often don’t like them in the shot. I think they add an extra element and purposely include them in many of my photographs.
It’s amazing when you open your eyes how fascinating the architecture looks on even the most mundane shop windows. Here in Worksop I have walked or driven past this carpet shop on Gateford Road hundreds of times, but never spotted the interesting detail on the upper areas, until today.
I took the photo using the iphone and hipstamatic, but will go back and shoot it again on the proper camera to add to my collection of architecture.
I’ve been a music fan since I walked into Wilson & Pecks ( a music shop in Sheffield (long since closed) with a selection of records) with my mum when I was about 10. I heard a happy song playing over the speaker system and asked my mum what it was. She asked at the counter and we walked out with A Swinging Safari by Bert Kaempfert and His Orchestra and I was a few weeks less pocket money, and at the start of a new direction in my life, that has been my enjoyment throughout. Not Bert, I soon grew out of that stuff, but music in general.
I’ll always remember that track but haven’t a clue how the other variations on the same happy theme go.
I was having a clear out yesterday and found the record, alongside some BBC sound effect albums, Dance Macabre and a selection of old indie 12inches that joined them in the 80s.
I’ve stuck it on the record player and photographed it as my 94th photo365 photo.
The cover is very cheesy!
I’ve been experi-menting with fast flash tonight trying to record the bursting of a balloon and I’m fairly happy with this shot.
I used a new portable studio flash, test will be going up on ePHOTozine in a few days, and a Sony Alpha A55 set to high speed shooting mode, although in reality i could only get one or two frames with any action. The first being the balloon exploding and the second showing the water dropping down towards the floor.
This shot still caught some of the burst balloon adding a touch of colour to the frame.
The shutter speed was 1/160sec, but the flash duration would have been much higher.
I went over to Baslow Edge in Derbyshire this evening as I hoped we’d get a sunset, and we did. It wasn’t brilliant but ok and a good chance to test the portable studio flash I’m currently reviewing.
I underexposed the background and fired the flash from above to fill in detail in the rock. It was a bare tube with no modifier.
Two shots – one of the background, another of me. I then cloned the background over my face to give a surreal effect.
That’s today’s photo365
Here is the third of 12 sets of pictures from my photo365 project. This one covers the month of March 2011
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See the individual pictures each day on my blog