Zombies seem to be everywhere these days… This one was spotted at the Capital E Halloween Event for children held at Civic Square. Emily was not very impressed that the zombies were scaring kids (Emily) and we had to leave after only being there a short while 🙂
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Fuji Neopan 400 Iso Film.
After waiting a couple of weeks for 120 neg pages to turn up I have finally started to develop my backlog of film…Yay! Now all I need is the HP5 to turn up from Australia and things will be back to normal although I am starting to quite like Neopan 400,
Looks like the Vespa from next the shop next door has found a friend
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Fuji Neopan 400 ISO Film.
Yesterday at work I got asked to go get some sample images to print out for the Sony NEX 5 with the 16mm Lens… Apart from being the worst time of day to go shooting on a day where it was bright and sunny here goes some of the shots that wont be used for sample images but better suit my style of street shooting 🙂 I did slightly pimp it out with a Polariser.
Oh and the camera handled better than I thought it would even if the 16mm was a bit wide for my liking for the street stuff.
Yeah there’s a bit of building/roadwork action going on in the centre city at the moment 🙂
Chillin worker styles
“Yep looks like a road”
With a 24mm equivalent it’s quite hard to get a close image 🙂
Sony NEX 5, 16mm Lens.
Not sure what religion they were pushing (when you only have 5 -10 min a day to get some shots you just don’t have time) but I like the way the guys body language is turned for a quick get away.
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Fuji Neopan 400 ISO Film.
As requested by Saarem… The shot from the other side of the street.
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Fuji Neopan 400 ISO Film.
Another random shot in Cuba Mall.
I like how much is going on in the frame and it takes a couple of looks to see all the detail.
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Fuji Neopan 400 ISO Film
A bit of breakdancing on Cuba Street.
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Fuji Neopan 400 ISO Film.
Spotted a couple of people putting up some sort of art piece in the Leftbank Alley so clicked off this shot.
Went back the next day to see what it was but it was pretty much destroyed.
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Fuji Neopan 400 ISO Film
Here goes another how it was done post, this time on my Photo5 entry I called “Smokin Grater”. The finalists are announced today sometime and then the other contestants vote on who they think should win. There are about 8000 entries so I’m not holding out too much hope of being a finalist… but you never know 🙂
For those of you who missed it here goes the image I submitted.
So the brief was as follows:
This is a moody brief. Use smoke from the incense to create ambience and atmosphere in a black and white photo. It’s not just about shooting smoke, but capturing the essence of black and white photography in a dramatic way.
Once again this seems simple enough:
Thanks to my new scanner I can now show you my pre shoot thoughts 🙂
So the original idea was to sit a camera on a board with the lens above a hole and let the smoke rise up and around the lens. Taken from a slightly high angle where you couldn’t see the hole it would like the camera was smoking.. I also had plans to throw a stack of photos so it looked like they were exploding out of the back of the camera…
Anyway after a bit more thought I thought it would be more amusing to use a cheese grater and make it look like it was smoking due to over grating…
I really like the aesthetic of photographer Caleb Charland and wanted to try to emulate his clean images (turns out it’s really really hard to make images look as clean as his 🙂 )
So the idea was to use a long exposure to give a very hazy smoke presence…
I put a snoot on a speedlight and placed it under the table and had another speedlight bouncing off the ceiling.
After adding a pile of melted cheese (which ended up being melted by a fan heater after all else failed) I started playing around with the incense to see what kind of smoke effect I would get… About an hour later there was still no sign of smoke and I was starting to get a bit frustrated….Grrrr…
About now I throw my hands up in despair and walk away and go have a shower…
When I come back I decide to scrap what I have done and start again.
I decided to use a black background and a light globe on one of my speedlights and see what happens.
This was the first shot off the camera after setting things up… at this point things are looking up 🙂
So now its time to add some smoke and a snooted speedlight behind to highlight it with a silver bounce off to the left to reflect a bit of light back onto the grater.
This is how the setup looked at this point:
Again my studio is Soooo high-tech… 🙂
After quite a bit of playing around I found the best way to show smoke up is to backlight it… It was a lesson hard learned and if I had known this previous it would have saved me many an hour 🙂
A slight re-jigging of the composition and …
Image straight off the camera with no processing
Processed to Black and White using Adobe Lightroom with a bit of retouching in Photoshop to take out the hotspots from the incense inside the grater.
Nikon D70s, 50mm f1.8 Lens, ISO 200. SB24 Speedlight with Globe and SB80DX with Snoot. Black reflector as backdrop and Silver reflector as bounce.
This is the last series of images from the Zombie Walk on the 30th.
Shot these ones on the Rollei and have left the scans pretty raw and dusty because it kinda suits the theme…
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Fuji Neopan 400 pushed to 800 and Ilford Delta 3200 Films.
More zombies…
Nikon F5, 50mm f1.8 Lens, Ilford Delta 3200 ISO Film
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