Angel
Karori Cemetery, Wellington, New Zealand
Shot in the middle of the day with speedlite on full power. This is pretty much how the image looked on the camera.
More Mushroom Hunting
This time the mushroom hunting is literal.
Speedlight directly above the mushroom but quite close so there is alot of light fall off.
Shot on Nikon F5 with Velvia 50 film
The Fall of the Last Tree Standing
This is the fall of the last tree left standing on a lone hill next to a power pylon.
I shot this wide because the tree was on a massive lean towards said power pylon and the tree fellers truck (which he moved before the tree came down).
It ended up being a bit of an anticlimax due to the fact that they tied a steel cable to the digger and pulled it down before it was cut all the way through.
Original series was 17 images but have narrowed it down a bit. I also kooked the focus due to using slow film so have made it small and “Lomofied” it a bit. Yes I know im a hypicrite
Collaboration
Collaboration with Dining With Gunz
Amusing because both of us were thinking of doing this but neither of us wanted to ask the other.
Hopefully there will be more collaboratons in the future.
Fatherhood Friday 2
Just finished developing these last night (yay black and white film)
All I can say is “when the heck did you grow up so much?!
This picture really sums up Samantha in my opinion “its all about me!” It is possible at 9 months that she has a diabolical plan to rule the world.
This is a picture of Emily posing, not quite sure what she’s being… I only put it in because one of this weeks big things was watching them cut down the trees that she is standing in front of…Those pics with action sequences of trees being felled coming soon 🙂
Surfer and the Storm
Shot after a big storm overnight… It still seems crazy that these guys wait for the big waves to go past and then jump onto the back of them from the rocks to get into the water… I guess it saves lots of time paddling.
Macro Stitch Image “Back of a Gargoyle”
Nikon D70s ISO 200 50mm f1.8 with PK13 extension tube f8 1/125sec with 1 studio light
This image is actually made up of 9 images stitched togeather in Photoshop
The overall dimensions are something like 100cm x 25cm at 300 dpi
This was an experiment to see if I could combine macro photography and stitching to make a macro panoramic image. This was done by moving the camera along a macro rail rather than rotating it like when you make a landscape pano… I am really tempted to make a turntable of some sort to put an object on and then make a 360 degree stitched image of it…
As a test I thought this worked pretty well.
Red Splat
Red Splat
Originally shot for the Canon Eos Photo5 Competition
Nikon D70s ISO 200 f8 1/640 sec (which is kinda odd cause the D70s is only supposed to sync up to 1/500 sec)
Red Splat 2
This one didnt make the cut for the comp but was kinda cool
Nikon D70s ISO 200 f8 1/640 sec
A small setup montage.
I really like how crap the setup is (random piece of perspex with holes drilled into it balanced on an upsidedown chair on the family table) but how good the end result looks… I feel its a good example of what you can do without spending a whole heap of money on fancy equipment.
Light Graffiti
Test shot for Portrait sometime (model in foreground right)
Nikon D70s ISO 200 F22 66secs with 10W torch and lots of running up and down
Cross Processed Emily Lion
Cross Processed uji Velvia 50
Facepaint from launch of the “Giggles” TV show
Same shot two different ways 2
Shot 1 mostly for composition reasons
Courtneay Place, Wellington, New Zealand
Nikon D70s at ISO 200 f8 1/500 sec
Shot 2 with a Cokin NDX filter (which reduces light by a bigillion stops)
Nikon D70s ISO 200 f8 364 sec
This one feels slightly post apocalyptic with the lack of people and the crazy magenta cast from the filter
Same shot but two different ways
Nikon F5 with 50mm f1.8 lens
Ilford Pan F 50 Film
ND8 filter and ND4 Grad
f22 at 2 seconds
Nikon F5 with 50mm f1.8
Ilford Pan F 50 film
f2.8 at 1/5000 second
Last week I was testing out an expired bulk roll of film for the first time and feeling quite sleep deprived couldnt face taking it into my usual urban jungle setting so went to the beach instead. It was reasonably overcast but I was impressed how the film handled and the tonal range that I got out of it. Considering that it expired in 2007 it still seems to be working well.
I like how even though the 2 photos have almost the exact same composition the feeling that they create is vastly different
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