A Bit Of Powerboat Racing
There was Powerboat racing in the harbour yesterday and I thought it would be a good chance to test out my Nikon 80-200 f2.8 lens which has a pretty serious amount of fungus in it with my Nikon D90. Luckily the light was on my side so I didn’t have to worry too much about lens flare.
As we were walking to a good vantage point the race started and on the second turn two of the boats collided resulting in one of them overturning… I saw it happen but didn’t have a camera out so only got the aftermath.
Anyway I was reasonably happy with the way the lens handled and even sniped a couple of portrait shots of the crowd 🙂
Nikon D90, 80-200 f2.8 Lens, ISO 400.
Cooling Down
Best way to cool down at the Homegrown music festival…. Jump in a fountain 🙂
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
Solace In The Wind Meets Titanic
Over the weekend in Wellington there was a massive music festival that had areas set up all round the waterfront… This led to there being a fair amount of drunk people on the waterfront moving from zone to zone… Lets just say that lots of this sort of thing happened…
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 900F Scanner.
Waterwheel
A replica of the wheel that used to drive industry in the early days… This one was built around 1936 and then restored in the 1980s… I was surprised at how little water it took to keep it going round.
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F.
Swimmers
The short bouts of nice weather have bought out the wharf jumpers.
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
A Couple Of Long Exposures
I have been away camping with the family for the last couple of days (hence no new photos). Did a bit of playing with long exposure shots and the D90 to see how it would handle… The first one is a 20 minute exposure which has been a bit over tweaked in Photoshop (sorry not quite back in the real world yet) and the second one is a 30 second exposure.
The files look good but I have to say that the camera processing time was crazy! On the first shot the exposure was 20 minutes and it nearly took that long to process the image after the initial exposure so 40 minutes all up. I am hoping I just left a setting on which would increase the processing time so will have to look and see what other people have said…
Nikon D90, 50mm f1.8 Lens, ISO 200
Storm
So there is a bit of a winter storm happening over New Zealand at the moment so when the first snow flurries started to hit I decided it would be a good time to head to the south coast and get some images as the storm rolled up from the south island.
Its school holidays which meant that Amanda was home to look after the kids as I put on as many clothes as I could find and headed out.
The great thing about owning an aging digital SLR is that you don’t mind so much if it gets a bit wet so even though the spray off the waves was pretty bad I still got some shots. I also took my F5 which was pre loaded with some expired Ilford Pan F+ 50 ISO film so it will be interesting to see how they come out since I was getting up to about a 10 second exposure, hopefully I will develop that roll in the next day or two.
Nikon D70s, 18-70mm Lens, ISO 200. 1st two shots with a Cokin ND8 and Cokin ND4 Gad
A Fist Full Of Half Frame
Some half frame panos from a trip to Titahi Bay a couple of months back.
Canon Demi S Half Frame, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
Boat Fight
These yachts were following/dueling right next to the wharf a couple of weekends ago… I have to say that I had no idea that boats this size were so maneuverable as these guys were ripping it up something fierce!
Rollei doesn’t have a tele lens and this image isn’t cropped so they were pretty close!
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
More Winter Swimming
More kids jumping off the pier at the waterfront, this time while people pose for a photo at the other end…
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
Winter Swim
Last week as Samantha and I were walking along the waterfront (Sam in her push chair not the usual backpack due to my ribs still being painful) we spotted some people about to jump off the pier. Getting into position quickly with a push chair kinda sux so the viewpoint wasnt too good.
It turned out that they were overseas students and this was their last day in Wellington before heading home so they decided to go for a swim… Lets just say it look freaking cold since we are well in the grip of winter here at the moment!
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film ,CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
Going Slightly Crazy And A Picture Of A Dragon
The start of week two without shooting due to a combination of a back and rib injuries from a miss-spent youth. The weather hasn’t been especially friendly either and the few times I have tried to venture out with either half frame or D70s (yes I have dusted it off, literally) it has either been raining or has started to rain when I was in transit to where ever I was going.
Carrying a digital again has been due to a Fujifilm competition which wont let me enter scanned images…Um don’t they make film too? The first prize is an Fuji X100, which I have to say would be a quite nice camera to carry around to compliment Rollei. It is quite hard to be inspired when it is raining and not shooting 6×6 (everything seems to look better square) but we will see how it goes. It is supposed to be a nice day tomorrow so I might take Sam out in the push chair and have a look round and see what is up.
I think Sam is going slightly crazy too with not being able to get outside much… She is currently under my desk untying my shoe laces (hopefully she’s not tying them together) and talking a mile a minute.
Anyway here goes a shot from earlier in the year at the dragon boat festival…
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 900F Scanner.
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