Posts tagged “photography

2010 The Year that was…

Happy New Year to all!

Here is a quick breakdown of my first year (or not quite a year) of Blog action…

First Post on 03/03/2010

295 Posts since then

8140 Views

355 Comments

Top Post for 2010 : Wellington Zombie Walk followed closely by the other 2 posts about the Wellington Zombie Walk

Top Google search: Pigeon Houses

Top Referer: Facebook

My Favourite post: Hmmm kinda a hard one possibly Street Chess or Negative Space Portrait and the Zombie Posts

Most used Camera: Early year Nikon F5, Later in the year Rolleiflex

New Tattoos: None…

New Piercings: One

Bones Broken: None

Money made from Photography: (Not counting Assisting or working at a camera shop) Less than $1000 NZ

New Years Resolution: Shoot more and put together an exhibition

Let me know what you’ve liked, what you want to see more of and what you think sucked…

All in all a pretty good year…. Lookingf forward to 2011.

Peace out! 🙂


Scrap Yard Cars

These were all shot on Ilford Pan F+ 50 ISO Film, I really love the tonal range of this film… unfortunately after I had developed these and seen how good they were I went to work to stock up only to find that someone had bought all that was left in the fridge… How Rude! I have ordered more but unfortunately it comes from Australia and wont be here before the new year 😦 . I’m going to try pulling Ilford FP4 125 ISO film to 50 ISO and see what results that will give.

 

 

Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford Pan F+ 50 ISO Film, Canoscan 9000F Scanner.


Traffic Photographer on Manners Street

Just after Manners Mall became a bus road this guy turned up for about a week… We initially thought he was there to catch buses that were running red lights but it turns out he was there to take images of cars going through the “Bus Only” section of the road, possibly to give them tickets.

Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, Canoscan 9000F Scanner.


A Couple of Cemetery Half Frames

A couple more Half Frame panos, this time of a couple of different cemeteries.

The top image is from the cemetery overlooking the Terrace in Wellington and the other is at Karori Cemetery also in Wellington.


I Like how the top images have been run together on this one… It definitely adds a bit of atmosphere to the image.

Canon Demi, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, Canoscan 9000F Scanner.


From Darkness

Couple of shots from Staglands trip a couple of weeks ago…

 

Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Fuji Neopan 400 ISO Film, Canoscan 9000F Scanner.


More Building Demolition

Another shot from the Lombard parking building looking across to a bit of demolition…

Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, Canoscan 9000F Scanner.


Fatherhood Friday 30: Twas The Night Before Christmas… Half Frame Styles

Well kinda the day before christmas and in some parts of the world when I publish this, the day before the night before christmas… Wow that was pretty confusing…

As you can probably guess the girls are all pretty excited and riled up (all 3 of them, big one included).

One last shopping foray to complete for the girls to get each other a present and then its time to kick back and relax… At least until Boxing day when I’m working again.

Canon Demi Half Frame Camera, HP5+ 400 ISO Film, Canoscan 9000F Scanner.


Rainy Night at The Bus Station

While waiting for a friend at the bus station I shot a couple of images… This was by far the best one.

Great eye contact with the camera… I didn’t notice when I took it… I love how film still surprises me from time to time 🙂

Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Fuji Neopan 400 ISO Film, Canoscan 9000F Scanner.


Window Dresser Through Window

I seem to be taking lots of images through windows at the moment…

Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, Canoscan 9000F


Negative Space Portrait

This is definitely one of my favourite shots that I have taken recently.

A portrait within a portrait…

Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Fuji Neopan 400 ISO Film, Canoscan 9000F Scanner.


A Couple of Half Frame Sequences

Another couple of sequence shots from the loaner Canon Demi Half Frame Camera.

They are both off the first roll I put through it where I stuffed up which way to shoot and had to turn the images in Photoshop…Hence the weird light leaks don’t match up…

I think the person in the first one makes the shot… but that’s just me 🙂

 

Canon Demi, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, Canoscan 9000F Scanner.


Bus Casuality on Manners Street

As I was coming back from getting lunch I noticed a group of people clustered around someone on the footpath. As I got closer it turned out to be someone who had just stepped out onto the street without looking both ways (day 3 of the new road layout where buses go both ways on a previously one way street) and was hit by a bus.

Lets just say that this was a really hard image to take and I think this comes across in the image itself… it probably didn’t help that I was shooting 50 ISO film… but I think the camera shake adds some anonymity to the image.

Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford Pan F 50 ISO Film, Canoscan 9000F Scanner.