Jul 29, 2008 9:24 am
The Brisbane Flickr group I’m a part of had a lunch meet on Saturday at the Caxton, followed by coffee at the Powerhouse, during which we caught up on gear acquisitions and took random portraits of one another. Before we left Fortitude Valley we went up to the cliffs for sunset and blue hour (the hour after sunset). Most of us took panoramas and landscapes of the city but since I didn’t have my tripod with me I improvised (shot below).
The following morning we met up at about 4:30am at Fingal Head on the Northern NSW coast for a dawn shoot and light painting (long exposure photography using torches or flashes to illuminate subjects - in this case the lighthouse at Fingal Head). I didn’t take part in the light painting but took a few shots during and after dawn.
As usual, each of the images opens up to a wallpaper size version if clicked.
Dec 4, 2007 8:58 am
We swapped over our internet connection yesterday to a 150gb TPG plan. I’ve been getting ’status’ emails from them letting me know how the setup is going. The connection should be active on Wednesday, at which time I will upload some photographs I took from the flickr meetup on the weekend.
In the meantime I have been experimenting photographing my slides with a macro lens plus closeup filter. It seems to do the job pretty well, though I think I need to get another closeup filter in order to fill my 400D’s frame. Currently I get a 1950 pixel high image from a 35mm slide (my camera allows for a height of just under 2600 pixels). I’ve been doing it in relative darkness, using a lightbox and covering for the area around the slide. Even with this setup it’s still quicker than using my scanner, and there is so much less noise. Also, there is the distinct advantage of being able to shoot it raw and adjust the colour balance etc afterwards, and when I run a USM I am pretty much getting grain level sharpness (though the slides were taken with a cheapie kodak camera in the 60s so they are quite soft). I’m actually pretty impressed.
Nov 30, 2007 10:43 pm
I was sifting through my ever-growing archive of images today and found a couple I thought were worth touching up and putting on Flickr.
Nov 22, 2007 12:06 pm
These images were taken on Sunday at Cedar Creek, North West of Brisbane. David de Groot picked me up from the city with some other flickr-ites and we went out to his home, had some breakfast (David cooks some mean pancakes and crepes), then did some very pedestrian exploration of the surrounds.
First we headed up to a part of the creek that David had photographed before, but unfortunately it wasn’t flowing as strongly as the day he had been there previously. It didn’t stop a visiting family from bathing and playing in the shallow rock pools though, and more people turned up a few minutes before we left.
We then went a bit downstream and snapped some shots, before heading back to Dave’s place for lunch and tick plucking. After lunch was a brief foray into the steeply sloped jungle in Dave’s back yard followed by some mosquito bite scratching.
I achieved a few decent photographs, nothing overwhelmingly special, but Martin took some really nice macro shots.
