Its low in the sky and despite the time of year still quite warm – I’m talking about the sun. And this shot is direct into the sun with a leaf in the foreground photographed using the infrared converted Pentax *ist D and 16-45mm zoom. I processed in lightroom to convert the red tone to brown – the flare is natural.
I grew a tomato plant this year but then neglected it so never picked the baby toms. They’re still hanging on in there several months later! I took this photo of a clump using an infrared converted Pentax *ist D and 50mm f/1.4 and processed in Lightroom to give a black & white look.
A 5m high sculpture in front of Doncaster’s Keepmoat Stadium. I drove past and spotted a car boot sale outside the stadium, so went to see what was on offer. I found one stall selling magazines and was attracted to the cover of one with two free cover mount CDs. The cover had an Opeth taster, and a guy who looked Goth like. His head covered the name of the magazine so you could just see “Ter” and “er” I bought it for £1…I’m now the owner of a death metal mag with two cds of pure hell!
But back to the reason for today’s blog…the sculpture, by Andy Scott was catching the light well, so I used the iphone with Hipstamatic to record the view. Please with how it’s recorded the background clouds.
A quick snap of my web cam I got fixed up to start testing hangout style options for future epz connectivity.
I was also playing with a 50mm f/1.4 lens at full aperture. More of this type to come. I processed in Lightroom and gave it the B&W creative Selenium tone preset
It reminds me of some security camera on a wall…they’re watching!
Things are progressing well in the cinema build. The floor has been laid and a lower wall erected, along with some of the internal structure.
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.
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.