Experimenting with off-camera flash. I mean - really back to basics. Well, not back. Just… basics. Like… why isn’t the flash working? Oh. Electronic shutter. Dimwit. I need to play with flash more to understand it. And I need to play with kittens less, because they’re a fucking nightmare.
HERON!
Yet another image of a heron. But I like herons.
Pale Blue Dot
Street Level | Gallery
I found a remote trigger that also allows burst firing (Hähnel Captur), so put the R5 in a cage, and hung it at the bottom of a monopod for street-level captures of dogs. Click for full images.
There were some quite cool kids too.
Norfolk | Day 3 | Gallery
Click for bigger…
On reflection, it appears that I am obsessed with groynes. Also, that I am a big fan of symmetrical portrait formats.
Norfolk | Day 2 | Gallery
Norfolk | Day 1 | Gallery
A long weekend in Norfolk, despite the weather. Minns’ book tucked under my eager little arm… Click to embiggen.
Key-lines
Frankly, just working out how to add a key-line to an image…
Flash. Ah-aaah.
Yes. I bought Nik. And am lumbering around in it.
Pep Ventosa, but table-top and therefore not
Experimenting with subject rotation and blend modes. And Nik.
I do NOT know how to do this...
Distilled water on rain-x’ed glass
I CAN’T GET TO GRIPS WITH THIS!
This one is oil in water, but I’ve been tried too with (distilled) water droplets on glass. Whatever I’m using I cannot figure out how to get the drop AND the image in the drop in focus. People seem to manage this by mistake when taking pictures through rainy windows, but I can’t decode what that means for doing it intentionally. This image is focus-stacked and it still doesn’t do what I’m after…
Walala Jazz
Canary Wharf | Gallery
A not-entirely-satisfying visit to Canary Wharf on an overcast day.
The Walala bridge:
Infra-Red:
Hawksmoor:
Jelly
Rowney Warren | Gallery
A lovely hour or so at Rowney Warren with Royston Photographic Society’s landscape group. Click images for lightbox.
Tom
Untitled
Manual Work
Gone
I’ve Got You
Happenstance
Interesting. I don’t know why this is doing what it is doing. It’s a trial of eleven stacked exposures while I sign something. Full colour but cold white light on a black t-shirt with a black background. There’s a small amount of blue and green in the shirt, but I don’t think that accounts for the interesting colour blooming on the composited image. It’s not working as a strategy for capturing the 3D shape the sign makes in space, which was the motivation for this, but it’s something to bear in mind and experiment with more in future….
It seems to be movement. A composite of images of me sitting still didn’t do it.
Hmm.
Birth of a Star
Bored at home while a man services the air-source heat pump. It’s a rock and roll lifestyle at Cromwell Towers. Spent the morning taking this astronomical image of a blueberry.
White-Balance Breakthrough
I finally had the advice that enabled me to solve the white-balance problem for my IR images. I had been manually adjusting the Kelvin of my WB, assuming that that would surely cover all of the available points on the cool-to-warm spectrum of the WB on my R5. However if you use the shoot-to-set-WB function and shoot at something green - you get a workable balance from which to channel-swap and whatever to get the effect you want. Many thanks to Ann Miles and Jim Bennett for this.
So this is my first image with a natural-looking sky and spectral vegetation. It’s not art. But it is success!