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April 4th, 2011 by Peter Bargh

Photo365 – Day 94 – Swinging Safari

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!

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April 3rd, 2011 by Peter Bargh

Photo365 – Day 93 – Pop

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.

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April 2nd, 2011 by Peter Bargh

Photo365 – Day 92 – Rock on Baslow Edge

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.


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April 1st, 2011 by Peter Bargh

Photo365 – Day 91 – surreal

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

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March 31st, 2011 by Peter Bargh

Photo365 – March Set

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

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March 31st, 2011 by Peter Bargh

Photo365 – Day 90 – Good News?

A trip to the hospital today to have an EMG / Nerve Conduction test and I have to say it hurt! Quick fire electric shocks up the arm like putting your fingers in a plug socket over and over again. We’ll not quite as powerful, but I certainly felt it. Must have been 50 or so shocks.

Also on the subject of numbers I was intrigued to hear on the radio today that there are an estimated two million potholes on the roads at the moment that need fixing. Who counted them?!

And today when testing flash I needed to position a head 2 meters away from the wall and guestimated the distance before measuring accurately and I was surprised I got it bang on. Who says men always incorrectly estimate when giving measurements?!

Back to the point of the thread…my picture of the day.
It’s from the Sheffield Royal Hallamshire Hospital. This is the area where you catch the lift, and is now used as a waiting room.

It’s doesn’t feel right waiting in the lift area, but was certainly less crowded than a typical waiting room. It’s twice the width of this. The woman was on the phone…good news I wonder? I hope mine is when the test come back.

Taken with my iphone and the hipstamatic app.

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March 30th, 2011 by Peter Bargh

Photo365 – Day 89 – sploosh

I’m playing around with the portable studio flash we have in for test some more and have no started to try the fp mode which promises 7 frames per second. I wondered if it can do more and tried it with the new Sony Alpha A55 with its 10fps mode. It can’t keep up! But few flash system could.

Here’s one of tonight’s shots. I’m going back to do more now and aim to get a better version (need to play with the position of the light some more) but thought I’d get my daily photo365 photo out so I can continue into the night uninterrupted.

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March 29th, 2011 by Peter Bargh

Photo365 – Day 88 – Self Portrait

I’m currently testing a new portable studio flash and before I go out I’m getting familiar at home…and that means good old me as the subject. This was taken a few minutes ago in my office. I underexposed to reduce the detail in the background and give the stark effect.

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March 28th, 2011 by Peter Bargh

Photo365 – Day 87 – The path you take

Taking a photo each day for 365 days is an interesting challenge and some days it’s quite unusual how you get to you photo idea. Today I was looking at a book on self portraits for ePHOTOzine’s book reviews section. I went to find the Amazon link and street price on the Internet. I searched the book title, and ended up pursuing a few sites with self portrait photos. One had a cool shot of a hand firing a cable release with the person in the background. It gave me an idea and as I’m testing a studio flash at the moment an opportunity to take a few more shots with the light. And the result is this.

I’ve intentionally made it dark and hopefully moody. I’ve added a texture layer too. The scratches on my hand and grubby thumbnail are a result of some gardening which has added to the overall feel of the photo. The item I’m holding is an old mechanical cable release.

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March 27th, 2011 by Peter Bargh

Photo365 – Day 86 – Balloons

I’m in the process of reviewing a new portable studio flash head and was just getting familiar with the settings. This was taken as a quick test. The main pics will be done next week.
It’s just a few balloons scattered on the floor and the light was held in one hand and the camera in the other.
Pentax K10D with 16-45mm lens.

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