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
More Painting with Light
Up above the Terrace in Wellington.
Experimenting with alternate portrait techniques
Nikon D70s, 18-70mm Lens, ISO 200. f22 at 25 seconds with 10W bike light… Subject moved after 10 seconds
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
Random Shop windows
A couple of random shop window shots from London
The trick with shooting through windows is to place the front of the lens directly against the window so you dont get any reflections and it also means you can use slow shutter speeds.
Nikon F5 19-35mm lens Fuji Velvia 50 ISO film
Giant Gum Moth
A really big Gum Moth. It was about 20cm from wingtip to wingtip
Luckily it stuck around while I went and got Camera and Flash
Nikon D70s, 50mm f1.8@f5.6 1/60 Second SB80DX
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.
Beacon
This is from last weeks 4WD mission out past Redrocks.
I am assuming that this around about the SS Penguin sank in 1909
I like the fact that its a bit crooked. Not sure if it was built like this on purpose to break the waves that come from predominately one direction or if the person who put it there was permanently drunk.
Nikon F5 with 80-200 f2.8 set to f22, ND8 and ND6 Graduated filters, 2 second exposure
Fatherhood Friday 4 Sam only eats things that are small and round
Crap forgot that it was Friday today… Bout sums up my week…Better late than never.
This week Emily is starting to get excited because her birthday is not too far away.
She has been feeling a bit attention starved since Samantha has had a bit of a grumpy week.
Samantha has started refusing all food that she cant feed to her self and current favourites are peas and blueberrys.
Has been constantly grumpy and a little unsettled this week which included a half hour screaming session when she woke early one night and Amanda was out swimming… Probably due to more teeth and Daylight Savings.
Lets hope for a better week next week.
All things going well I will finally have a couple of days to concentrate on photography next week and scoping of rentable darkroom may be on the cards.
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