Here is todays Daily Photo, once again taken on a climbing expedition on the wonderful Richon GR1s on Velia 100.
Till tomorrow
James
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
DP: Climbing - South Georgia Expedition 05-06
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
DP: Archery portrait
So im very late on getting todays/yestersdays daily photo up but here it is anyway. Its one from the archery portrait shoot (see details in post below). Processed in a mock "300" way.
Hope you like it
James
Archery Photo Shoot
So an other slightly different post today, I am going to write up the first real strobist shoot I have ever done. If people like this I will continue to try and write them up as I go along.
So the shoot was with the university Archery club.
We did two main shoots one to try and get an action shoot with an arrow in the air, and the second a portrait shoot.
The action shot.
We set up two strobes to start with one behind the archer and one mid way along the range. After a few shoots with this we realise the rest of the range was too dark so we added a second strobe further along (see diagram). We got some success with this but not much with timing being our main problem. Also it always seemed that the arrows were blurred, thought we were able to get something using a lighter poundage bow (a weaker one so the arrows weren't so fast but then we couldn't get the timing right!). Anyway composition wasn't great but its given us some ideas for a reshoot at some point.
light behind in an umbrella (silver bounce) at 1/4 the other two were at 1/8 into white umbrellas (triggered using CLS) we hoped that the ones at 1/8 would be a faster duration then one at 1/4 but don't know if that's true or not!
The Portrait Shoot
Next we moved onto a portrait session. Getting some interesting kind of looks and learning a lot (like how annoying CLS can be.... oh to have those radio poppers :) )
light camera left was bare zoomed to 50mm and at 1/4 the other two were behind and also camera right 1/8 zoomed to 50mm. See the layout below:
So that's it really just wanted to add something that hopefully will be of use to some of you and hopefully get some feedback.
Anyway that all for today till the daily photo!
James
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Monday, February 25, 2008
DP: Climbing - South Georgia Expedition 05-06
This is today's photo again one from a climbing exped, taken on velvia 100 again on the richon GR1s. It had just become light and we had already been climbing for a few hours when we had switch out of our snow shoes and start the climbing proper.
Till tomorrow,
James
Sunday, February 24, 2008
DP: lost chinstrap - South Georgia Expedition 05-06
So today's daily photo is from the second South Georgia Expedition taken on velia 100 iso on my fm3a + 80-200mm f2.8. The animals are so very tame on the island that approaching this little fellow was very easy.
till tomorrow
James
Saturday, February 23, 2008
DP: Rush Hour - Hong Kong
So I'm a little late today as have been really busy and just got back from a ball. Todays daily photo was taken with a nikon fm3a and old sigma zoom lens (28-115) a few years ago. Can't sadly remeber which b&w film it was (think possibly pan-x) and has an exposure of around 1 second.
Hope you like it,
James
Friday, February 22, 2008
DP: Artic tern
Todays Daily photo is of an artic tern. It was taken on the Farne Isles last summer and these guys while nesting love to dive bomb anything nearby. However after having to deal with them in South Georgia I was less worried then most and pulled out a wide lens 12-24 and saw what I could get, and this is one of those shots.
Hope you like it,
James
Lighting Stand Strip Light
I thought I'd add something a little different here today to go along with the daily photo concept.
I have been lurking on the strobes website for some time now and decided over the weekend that it would be really fun to make some striplights attachments to fit onto my my two strobes (thanks in no small part to strobist for enthusing me to jump head long into the fray of off camera lighting! If you haven't for some reason gone to the site then do yourself a favour and do so) and here is the photos and plans of how I went about it in the hope that it may be useful to someone. Click Read more to see how I did it.
First off I can hardly claim that the idea is my completely my own but I have yet to find any instructions on how to make one (though they may well exist) so here it is.
1. First off source a correctly sized box (mine came from my new light stands :) which I hope to put to good work later on this week).
2. cut a hole in one face of it leaving a 1-2cm clearance at the top and sides at the bottom leave a 10cm clearance.
3. Using aluminium foil line and spray adhesive (superglue works fine if you run out/ can't get any) line the inside of the box with foil (shiny side up). I found the easiest way to do this was to cut strips to the perfect size of one of the inside faces and do that before moving onto the next. Be use to use a rag/cloth to press the foil flat to create a uniform surface.
4. Tape up the bottom (the side with the 10cm clearence form the hole) and cut a squashed "H" into it to allow the strobe to enter.5. finally using some dust cloth (the stuff they make dust protective suits out of or some fine white cloth cut a rectangle of the fabric large enough to cover the opening on the box with a clearance of 1cm. Using gaffer tape stick this to the box.
Your done! As you can see the bottom is a bit hotter then the rest of the light but hopefully this wont be a big problem. I hope to get some photos up with this set up soon and when I do so I will let you know. If this process seems at all unclear then please look through the rest of he images on flickr that I uploaded but were unable to fit into this post.
James
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Climbing - South Georgia Expedition 05-06
So here it is photo two this one came from a climbing expedition to South Georgia Island after an apline start at 3am we pushed over this large ridge only to be promptly shut down but the mountain due to a large and impassable ice feild ahead. A rather interesting way to spend the day before christmas!
Taken on Velvia 100 film on a 35mm compact called a ricoh GR1s a fantasticly resilient little thing.
Hope you like it,
James
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
First Photo!
So here it is the first image on my blog! (hopefully anyway if I've got the whole thing understood now!)
So now the format, every time I post an image I will try and give some background to it so that hopefully we can all learn a bit. So this image is of a grey seal off the coast off the Farne Islands which I visited during the summer of last year. All the settings used should be viewable through flickr.
So there it is the first imagine on this blog, hope you like it.
Till tomorrow goodnight,
James
Welcome
A warm hello to all in blog land. As you can see I have actually finally got around to putting the first post on this blog, though being completely new to this whole concept it may well not work/be faulty in some way or finally my spelling may well get the better of me entirely and make this all unreadable. But if all of the following hasn't happened then there is a light at the end of the tunnel after all and this tiny bit of text might see the light of day somewhere.... hopefully (or at least the flouresent light of a cubical in someones office).
So onto what the blog is all about.... photography, general I know but hear me out. The concept is this I hope to put up one of my images each day (which should in theory get me to actually get them organized enough to do so) as well as anything else that catches my photographic eye in whatever form. I urge you to comment on anything and everything that I put up and who knows where the dialog will go, in some ways it doesn't matter, spray your mind/soul, abuse my often rather poor attempts at photography, enjoy the links/videos? then say why. Enjoy it, it should be as much something for you as me treat it that way. So without further ado, welcome to fractured frame
James
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