22/07/13
A wee wander round Belfast with the new 8mm fisheye. Had an idea that I was looking for this sort of "X" shape and walked around until I found the buildings at one junction that made an almost perfect shape for the shot.
23/07/13
Was mightily cheered up today when the postie brought me a little envelope containing two rather fine F2.8 patches all the way from the USA. I cannot decide where to put them but they look nice.
24/07/13
Sarah: Daddy, what does that new lens do?
Me: It does stuff like this
Sarah: That's just weird
25/07/13
Loved this grab shot from roller derby. It's all wrong technically but the lens flare from my flash gun is eye-catching and the skull and crossbones on the glasses is perfectly sharp.
26/07/13
I picked this shot out not because it's the best from the weekend's bout but because it's a good example of where I am right now with my attempts to master derby photography. Three off-camera flashguns placed at turns 3 and 4 with two as key lights (set at 1/4 power) and one as a fill light (set at 1/8 power). The big difference was that I've now started to set a custom white balance based on the combination of overhead fluorescents and flash guns and it seems to have worked wonders in terms of providing accurate colour rendition. I'm a happy bunny, particularly given that I was able to set this up in somewhere completely different and it worked.
27/07/13
Wrestling and more wrestling. God but this is fun to shoot. This was an evening of debuts for new wrestlers so there quite a few characters on display. Things were a wee bit rougher round the edges than usual but it was still great craic.
28/07/13
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