31-05-09: Another Bollard

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30-05-09: Triptych of the Electric Photographer

A self portrait of sorts, my reflection in the chrome balls of a safety spark gap on a Tesla Coil.
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29-05-09: Unicyclist!

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28-05-09: Morris Dancers

Morris Dancing in Bradmore.

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27-05-09: Moon on the lake

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26-05-09: Celestial Turbines

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25-05-09: Truck & Bollard

A still frame from a timelapse sequence I was shooting. Fortunately, I set the camera wrong and left it in full res RAW instead of the lower res sRAW, so I have a decent res image to use for something other than the timelapse sequence.
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24-05-09: Mysterious Tunnel

I'm thinking this would make a pretty cool location for gritty or scary style portraits... I think I'll try and come back to this later.
Apparently it used to be a farm access route (it's under a dual carriageway, and leads towards some fields) but the far end has had tons of soil dumped across it, so I assume it's no longer used...
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23-05-09: Dandelion

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22-05-09: Glowing Leaf

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21-05-09: Yellow

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20-05-09: Treasure! 3/3

If you grew up near agriculture and went for walks in the fields as a kid, you probably remember collecting "treasure", sometimes in the form of chips of glass from dumped and smashed glass in the fields. I picked these bits up a couple of days ago and shot them on a light box.
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19-05-09: Treasure! 2/3

If you grew up near agriculture and went for walks in the fields as a kid, you probably remember collecting "treasure", sometimes in the form of chips of glass from dumped and smashed glass in the fields. I picked these bits up a couple of days ago and shot them on a light box.
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18-05-09: Treasure! 1/3

If you grew up near agriculture and went for walks in the fields as a kid, you probably remember collecting "treasure", sometimes in the form of chips of glass from dumped and smashed glass in the fields. I picked these bits up a couple of days ago and shot them on a light box.

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17-05-09: Odd One Out

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16-05-09: Passing Shower

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15-05-09: Penalty

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14-05-09: Wet Leaf

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13-05-09: In/Out

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12-05-09: Capacitors

Sunglasses? Why, certainly ;).
JPEG strikes again on that sharp transition from blue to red... hardly surprising really...
Straight out of the camera, other than setting white balance to daylight before exporting a JPEG.
3 flashes; one snooted, shooting towards the camera; one gelled red and shot onto the background; the third lighting the capacitors, with a flag on one side to keep the light off the background.
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11-05-09: Horse Chestnut Blossom II

A close up of the Horse Chestnut blossom.
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10-05-09: Horse Chestnut Blossom

Courtesy of the same tree as yesterday's leaf.
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09-05-09: Horse Chestnut Leaf

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08-05-09: Full Moon, Obscured.

The moon was an unusually warm colour tonight, and nearly full.
I was in two minds whether to post this, because I'm not totally happy with it; the clouds are too blurred for my liking. I think it must have been pretty windy up there, with the speed the clouds were moving.
JPEG is a really blunt instrument for this sort of shot... the RAW file shows a massive amount more detail and much nicer graduation. Even at 100% quality, JPEG suffers from this horrible banding effect, particularly over graduated areas.

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07-05-09: Grid

Foil grid on an Ianiro softlight.
Necessity being the mother of invention, I hacked up a grid from cinefoil to tighten the beam on this softlight.
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06-05-09: We're Rolling!

In more ways than one...

It's probably worth mentioning that this isn't a photoshop effect, it's done in-camera.
I used the G9's bayonet cover to spin the camera on axis with the camcorder's lens, producing the radial blur.
The only post work done on this was to bump the contrast a little when processing the RAW file.
For any gearheads out there, it's a Panasonic AJ-D410AE DVCPRO camera.
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05-05-09: "Roger FZ2719, Turn left over the hill "

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04-05-09: Bunny Woods in evening light

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03-05-09: Silver Birch Infrared

It's infrared time of the year again... This one is a digital one to get me warmed up, but I've got a small stock of the (now sadly discontinued) Kodak HIE film waiting for the right conditions.
I normally use a Hoya R72 filter for infrared work, but they are expensive in larger sizes, so I only have a 58mm one; the 17-40 lens used here is 77mm.
When I went on the last APUG ILFORD tour, ILFORD kindly gave out a large mounted gelatin filter along with a roll of their own reintroduced infrared SFX200 film.
The filter is in Cokin P mount, which I have holders and a 77mm ring for, so the filter fits the 17-40 fine.

I've not used the SFX film yet, but that will be getting a good work out too this summer - reports from others suggest it works well though, so I'm looking forward to it.

This shot is blurry from the long exposure needed with the heavy filter - 8 seconds at f/8. I'm quite pleased with it though; I think the blurryness adds to the mystery of the infrared.
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02-05-09: More 3D

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01-05-09: Projection Beam

Another one from yesterday's 3D demo.
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