13/08/12
It was late on Monday evening and I hadn't taken my shot. Dinner was in the oven and I had about 20 minutes to find something. This was what I found. I shot a few frames but there was something about the texture of the statue, bricks and stones that appealed to me and it seemed to work in sepia. Later that night I sat on a beach and watched the most marvellous sheet lightning storm out over the Irish Sea from a deserted beach on the County Down Coast. I hadn't taken my camera, but it would have been glorious to have gotten a shot of the clouds lighting up from within. It was a damn nice walk and a damn nice evening though, so I'm not complaining.
14/08/12
On the spur of the moment I decided to go into Belfast and shoot the open-top bus celebration for Paddy Barnes and Michael Conlan, two Irish boxers who both won bronze at the Olympic Games. I got some good shots of them but had also heard on the radio that a mural was being painted to celebrate Conlan's win near where he lived. I took a swing by the street and found this, had a chat with the very helpful man who was painting the mural with his son and took this shot, which was my own favourite of the day. I also uploaded the pics and a story to Demotix, the first real news story I've uploaded there in a long time. My story made the front page of the main Demotix website, as least for a couple of hours. That was pretty pleasing. If you want to have a gander at it, you can find it here:
14/08/12
Ok - I got sidetracked this evening whilst looking for props for a photo project with Sarah. I ended up sitting looking through a box of old family stuff - photos, documents, medals, watches etc. There was also a bag containing my late grandfather's orange lodge regalia. This is a detail shot of his sash - as you will notice, it is blue not orange, blue being the colour for temperance lodges. It was quite remarkable that my grandfather was a member of a temperance lodge, given that he was fond of alcohol and whiskey in particular. It's even more remarkable that he decided to leave this stuff to me when he died, given my own particular political and religious opinions. Either that or he had kept his sense of humour right up to his death.
It's rare that I come up with a title for a shot, but this is "The Mighty Atom" - you know, like some sort of 1950's comic book hero/heroine? Light painting fun in the back garden made easier by the fact that the nights are definitely getting darker. One LED torch waved around Sarah on a 30" exposure at f 11 and ISO 100 and then a blast of rear curtain flash at the end to light up Sarah herself. Some of Sarah's shots of me are better than this, but I daren't post them up here. Make me look bad.
This was the result of another evening's light painting exploits. This was all done after 9.30 at night, just after sunset. The main shot is a long exposure and HDR'ed shot of the round tower in Dundrum Castle with the castle being lit up by a hand-held torch. The light spheres were created in the grounds of the castle by taping led lights to a hula hoop and spinning it. The spheres were then cut and pasted into the main picture and re-sized accordingly. I need to work on the spheres a bit more to try to get some kind of glow effect from them, but for a first effort I'm pretty pleased with this.
A total grab shot if ever there was one. Stopped for coffee and a sticky bun (and a smoke) outside and set the camera on the table. I realised it was pointing at this man and his dog, waited for the dog to turn its head and hit the shutter button and prayed that the settings on the camera would do the job. They did.
I'm not sure why there are so many landscapes cropping up on the blog recently, given that the phrase most associated with this type of shot is "I don't do landscapes." I do like this shot though, taken last night and processed this morning. Maybe I just need to do some more and read around it too, get more of an idea of what to look for when setting up landscape shots.
15/08/12
It's rare that I come up with a title for a shot, but this is "The Mighty Atom" - you know, like some sort of 1950's comic book hero/heroine? Light painting fun in the back garden made easier by the fact that the nights are definitely getting darker. One LED torch waved around Sarah on a 30" exposure at f 11 and ISO 100 and then a blast of rear curtain flash at the end to light up Sarah herself. Some of Sarah's shots of me are better than this, but I daren't post them up here. Make me look bad.
16/08/12
This was the result of another evening's light painting exploits. This was all done after 9.30 at night, just after sunset. The main shot is a long exposure and HDR'ed shot of the round tower in Dundrum Castle with the castle being lit up by a hand-held torch. The light spheres were created in the grounds of the castle by taping led lights to a hula hoop and spinning it. The spheres were then cut and pasted into the main picture and re-sized accordingly. I need to work on the spheres a bit more to try to get some kind of glow effect from them, but for a first effort I'm pretty pleased with this.
17/08/12
A total grab shot if ever there was one. Stopped for coffee and a sticky bun (and a smoke) outside and set the camera on the table. I realised it was pointing at this man and his dog, waited for the dog to turn its head and hit the shutter button and prayed that the settings on the camera would do the job. They did.
19/08/12
I'm not sure why there are so many landscapes cropping up on the blog recently, given that the phrase most associated with this type of shot is "I don't do landscapes." I do like this shot though, taken last night and processed this morning. Maybe I just need to do some more and read around it too, get more of an idea of what to look for when setting up landscape shots.
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