13/02/12
I thought I'd run with some of Ciaran de Bhal's ideas from his talk last week and specifically still life shots using light painting. This is one of Trish's old cameras alongside my grandfather's old half hunter pocket watch. The camera was set for an 8 second exposure at f11 and 200 ISO. The room was dark and I took two shots; in the first I played a little hand torch over the watch and in the second I ran the torch over the camera. I then blended the two in Photoshop and converted to sepia tone using Lightroom. A little bit of burning was needed to tone down the highlights on the watch. Overall, not a bad little still life.
14/02/12
Happy Valentine's Day! I got a funky new shirt and my dinner cooked for me. We also got Couples Trivia cards. Just for the record, Trish is the better driver, is better with money and is much less childish than me. I, on the other hand, am more spontaneous and have more bad habits. Hooray!
15/02/12
Back to iPad portraits, since I had Ellen calling round for the evening. I'm still trying to figure out what you could with this type of shot, hence I'm basically repeating myself. What else could a man do with an iPad? That wasn't dirty.
16/02/12
For a good few years, while living in the cultural wasteland that is Carrickfergus, I drove past this every morning and evening. It sits on the shore at Jordanstown village and I have no idea what it is or was. Today I happened to be driving past and knew I had my camera and tripod in the boot of the car, as well as a pair of boots. I decided to give it a brief detour as the tide was out and it looked like I could walk pretty close to the water's edge. Anyone who knows what this used to be, I'd be delighted to know.
17/02/12
This is my very talented son, Conor. We spent the day at a Street Art Workshop in a semi-derelict building near Belfast City Centre with Conor spray-painting things and me taking photos. The event was being filmed by the BBC World Service as part of their English Language output - apparently it's big in places like Azerbaijan. This was Conor posing (or being posed) for his talking head segment. The room at the top of the building has these amazing semi-circular metal rafters/beams - I'd love to do a few more shots there if the opportunity arose.
18/02/12
A day of being out and about around "the Ards" today. Ballygowan (picking Trish's car up), Comber (lunch with Sarah), Scrabo (take photograph) and the new shopping centre (biggest collection of shit shops anywhere in western Europe).
19/02/12
At Trish's suggestion we went off to St John's Point this morning to photograph the lighthouse. It was cold enough and an interesting spot. I have to admit that Trish found this rockpool (and her photo will probably be much better than mine) but I had to carry my camera and tripod all the way over the rocks to get this. 8-stop ND filter, f22, 200 ISO and a shutter speed of 2" - I even remembered to shoot in Raw format and to turn on the exposure delay mode on my camera (that's the D90 version of mirror lock up). A quick sprint up the Mournes later and some nice pics from Ben Crom/Silent Valley. Put me in the notion to do a bit of walking down there if the weather keeps up.
Next week will see me taking and posting photo number 100 (Wednesday I think) - it'll only be another 267 after that then!
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