Fatherhood Friday 6 Emily Plays Drums
All I can say is It seemed like a good idea at the time
A much more sleepfull week this week with Samantha having adjusted to the new sleeping regime.
Nickname of the week: Samington Lamington
4×5 Flowers
A shot of some decomposing flowers from a while ago.
Who needs a Lens Baby when you have a 4×5 monorail.
Linhof 4×5 Camera 210mm lens f11 at 1/60th second, Bowens lights, softbox directly above and another in from the right. Fuji Velvia 50ISO
Sycamore Seed
A Sycamore seed dropped in a dark room then lit with a speedlite set on multiple flash of 1/50th of a second.
This sounded kinda simple but doing everything yourself ment that I shot nearly 100 shots and only got a few that were any good.
Nikon D70s, 18-70mm f 11 at 1/10th second with SB80dx set to 1/50th second on multiple flash.
Oriental Beach Renewal
On a Dark and Stormy Night.
Replacing sand before a big beech volleyball tornament. The beech is entirely man made with sand trucked in from Golden Bay in the South Island.
I forgot to take my remote shutter release so could only get short (30 second) exposures and it started raining almost as soon as I got there.
Made for good dramatic clouds though.
Nikon D70s, 18-70mm lens, ISO 200 at 30 seconds
Zombies and Wookies
Not usually seen togeather… Can wookies actually become Zombies? Were these infact Zombie Wookies?
Must have been the Rugby Sevens
Nikon F5 ,50mm f1.8, Ilford Delta 400 ISO film
More More Painting with Light
This was an experiment I tried in my front yard last night.
Maglite without hood on a piece of string with a wireless speedlight off to the side on the left of the image.
I liked the way that the speedlite made it look like the light came from the sphere but I feel that there are too many strands to the sphere so might have to try using a solid bar instead of the string… Will post when I get a chance to try it out.
This is all experimentation for an upcoming project of Urban Light Graffiti which I hope will happen in the next few weeks.
Nikon D70s, 18-70mm lens at 18mm. f3.5 at 57 seconds. Speedlite on 1/8 power
Fatherhood Friday 5. Emily Lion and the week we broke Samantha
Another tough week although not as bad as it could have been.
Sam has been waking up 7 or 8 times a night to be fed or settled and this week we decided that we had had enough and it was time for a bit of “tough love” to recover our sanity which had been slipping a bit over the last couple of weeks.
The plan was to start on Sunday and not feed her between 11pm and 5am, this involved me getting up from 11 to just settle and put Sam back to sleep.
Night 1: Fed 3 times before 11pm… Woke at 1am and screamed for 30 minutes then went to sleep… Woke at 3am and screamed for 45 minutes…Woke 5am, Fed went back to sleep till 630am
Night 2: Fed 2 times before 11pm… Woke at 130am and screamed for 10 minutes… Woke at 3am cried for 10 minutes… Woke 5am, Fed and went back to sleep till 6am
Night 3: Fed 1 time before 11pm…Woke 130am…Cried 30 seconds went back to sleep… Woke 5am, Fed and went back to sleep till 645
Last Night: 1st feed 1120pm… Woke 130am for 5 minutes… Bit restless but slept til 615am
Hopefully this improvement continues!
Emily Lion
Come into the Light
This is a really quick mock up of an idea for a shot… It needs another speedlight to come from behind the girls to ballance things up a bit an reduce the all encompasing red a bit.
I like how Sam is going “Here I come!”
Water Bike Jump
Shot at an X-Air in Wellington a couple of years back
Nikon F5 80-200mm, f2.8 Lens, Ilford HP5 400 ISO film
Lit up Flowers
Flowers in my back yard lit with 2 speedlites… One from directly below at full power (Nikon SB16) and one in from the left at 1/4 power (Nikon SB80DX)
Nikon D70s, 18-70mm @70mm, f22 at 2.5 seconds
More Painting with Light
Island Bay Skatepark on a cloudy but moonlit night.
In order to get the desired effect I had to do alot of running around. It took nearly exactly 30 seconds to run a curcuit of the skate park at full speed.
I was glad there was no one around to see me running round in the middle of the night at a skate park with a torch.
The gold coloured light came from the sodium street lamps running beside the road next to the park.
Nikon F5 Tokina 19-35mm lens, Fuji Velvia 50 Film, f5.6 for 30 seconds, 10W bike light used for painting.
Your Not in this Alone
“Your Not In This Alone”
Found in an alley off Leftbank in Wellington just before Easter
More Driving
More driving Pics from last Friday with various cameras superclamped to the front grab handle of a Land Rover Discovery
Nikon D70s with 18-70mm lens an ND8 filter and an ND6 graduated filter.
The ND8 was to get a longer shutter speed since it was in the middle of the day and the ND6 Grad was so the sky didnt burn out
With the first 2 images I liked the way that the car infront is still kinda sharp but you get the feeling of movement from the sides being blurry.
Tripod set up in the backseat with the front 2 legs in the passenger footwells and the back leg flat and jammed into the space between the backrest and the seat.
Nikon F5 with 19-35mm lens, Ilford Pan F+ 50 ISO film, ND8 filter and an ND6 graduated filter.
Saw an awsome article at work today from Phase One that was basically showing how they did a whole lot of car images and it gave me an idea for a shoot along the same sort of lines.
Hopefully I can convince some people to help me to hang out the back of 1 vehicle while taking images of another vehicle… Will have to wait and see what happens.
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