My eldest son got his first "big bike" for his 8th birthday a few weeks ago. It's got 24 gears, disk brakes, front and rear suspension. He just loves being able to get up the hills and go offroad now and is starting to get quite adventurous....I don't know where he gets that from ?? (:-))
This was an attempt at a panning/motion blur shot with a slow shutter speed. It's worked quite well but you can see from the curve of the blur I was quite close. Camera set to AI servo mode to track a moving subject. Developed in Lightroom with a Direct Positive preset to punch the colours.
A little part of the web for me to talk about Photography, what I'm up to, share experiments, recent shots, hints and tips. To share my (limited) experience with others and to gain further skills myself.
Monday, July 20, 2009
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Harry Potter : The Set for "The Deathly Hallows"
This was taken in Windsor Great park, just by Virginia water lake. Over the last few weeks they've been building this mazing castle and galleon. Apparently for the new Harry Potter film. I finally got round to taking a shot of it last weekend but have only just downloaded and processed it.
Friday, July 17, 2009
Blow Your Own Trumpet (Terrell Stafford)
Whilst staying in the Kempinski Hotel in Falkenstien (Near Frankfurt in Germany) I was lucky enough to stumble accross this amazing Jazz musician playing a gig in the hotel bar. He'd flown in from the US, met with his backing group (Piano, Double Bass and Drums) did a 30 minute rehearshal and then went straight into the gig. What an amazing sound they had and the improvisation they managed with only having met that day was incredible. Great musicians.
You can find out more about Terrell here. www.terellstafford.com/
Terrell is #17/100 in my 100 strangers project. Go to www.100strangers.com
to find out more.
You can find out more about Terrell here. www.terellstafford.com/
Terrell is #17/100 in my 100 strangers project. Go to www.100strangers.com
to find out more.
Friday, July 10, 2009
My Boy
Haven't posted anything for a while and stumbled accross this shot in an old folder. I reprocessed it with some of my new techniques learned from Scott Kelby's book CS3 for Digital Photographers. (B&W conversion with a gradient map, quad toning for a richer B&W and then selective sharpening of the eyes (using a layer mask with a high pass filter), toned down a bit with a reduced opacity.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Joanna Rodriguez : Runner
I completed with Jo a few times over the last few years in various races. We were pretty closely matched but my running bacame interlaced with injury and hers went from strength to strength. I'm not sure what time she did int he handicap last night but the speed she ran past me to get this photo I'd say it would be around 32 minutes. (avg speed for 5 miles being about 6:20 min/mile. I'll post the time when the results are up.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Dragonfly Heart in a sea of Bokeh
This was taken in my garden a few weeks ago. I'm using a Nikon 105mm micronikkor f2.8 lens, strapped to my canon 40D with a cheapo adaptor from Ebay. It mean you can still do auto metering once the aperture is set (set aperture manually) but all the focussing in manual. It's a bit of a pain doing macro work on a manual lens as the depth of field is so small. I would love to get a canon 100mm macro lens but htere are other things ahead of that in my must have purchases.
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