A sunset giving some golden light and an approaching storm... what more could a photographer ask for!?!
13 Jan 2011
The Storm Cometh!
A sunset giving some golden light and an approaching storm... what more could a photographer ask for!?!
11 Jan 2011
Mushrooms are not plants: they are a fungus.
Found this one behind our tent while taking a leak in the bushes last weekend when we were out camping at the Rietvlei Nature Reserve.
Shot details: Nikon D90, Nikon 50mm f1.8D, f8, 1/60s, ISO200, Aperture Priority, processed in Corel Paintshop Pro X3.
5 Jan 2011
30 Dec 2010
Whazzat?!
If only we could retain the joy, wonder and innocence we had as children... the world would be sooo much better!
29 Dec 2010
Eliminate That Hotspot!
While I was out shooting Santa last week I had some spare time to play with my flash and shoot through umbrella set-up and took the following shot:
As you can see there is a distinct hotspot in the umbrella. Not so great for even distribution of light, which is the point of the umbrella to start off with. Of course it does help to distribute light, but not as well as it could. The flash was set to about 50mm here, so I flipped out the built in diffuser and it automatically went to 14mm wide with the following result:
Beautiful even distribution of light resulting in a better wrap around effect for portraits!
The light stand used here is in fact a junky old cheap tripod with the head removed and refitted to an extension pole which I then mounted to the top of the junky old cheap tripod, I then drilled a hole through the plastic head (taking care to avoid anything important) and voila! Nice tall light stand for the man on a limited budget. Here is a close up of the head:
Some people say I'm tight, but I like to think of myself as frugal...
;-)
As you can see there is a distinct hotspot in the umbrella. Not so great for even distribution of light, which is the point of the umbrella to start off with. Of course it does help to distribute light, but not as well as it could. The flash was set to about 50mm here, so I flipped out the built in diffuser and it automatically went to 14mm wide with the following result:
Beautiful even distribution of light resulting in a better wrap around effect for portraits!
The light stand used here is in fact a junky old cheap tripod with the head removed and refitted to an extension pole which I then mounted to the top of the junky old cheap tripod, I then drilled a hole through the plastic head (taking care to avoid anything important) and voila! Nice tall light stand for the man on a limited budget. Here is a close up of the head:
Some people say I'm tight, but I like to think of myself as frugal...
;-)
25 Dec 2010
Shooting Santa...
...a profitable low point in my artistic career! Lets face it there is no artistic value in doing the typical Santa in the mall shots, but it does provide the bread and milk money.
I decided to go for the less is more philosophy and had a single shoot through umbrella with a Nikon SB600 flash, camera set to manual, 1/80s, f5.6, customised portrait mode, jpg only (to save time). The results were quite adequate for the task at hand:
Everybody loves Christmas! Except the Grinch I suppose, but he wasn't there.
I decided to go for the less is more philosophy and had a single shoot through umbrella with a Nikon SB600 flash, camera set to manual, 1/80s, f5.6, customised portrait mode, jpg only (to save time). The results were quite adequate for the task at hand:
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| The setup |
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| Santa with baby |
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| Santa with another kid |
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| Santa and Helper |
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