10/11/2009

Well I still have to process images from Saturday and Sunday night. No image last night or tonight as I have not been able to focus on taking any images. Also not focusing on completing the assessment tasks fro my uni course, simply not focusing on what is important right now. Will try to regain focus by the end of the week.
Anyway, a couple more images from Ripponlea until I can get myself organised.

6/11/2009

24/365 Well no image taken tonight so I have used an image from my trip to Brighton Baths last night and processed using Nik Effex Silver to transform to B&W then applied a film effect to heighten the contrast. Lazy I know, but this image really caught my eye while I was wandering around and this is the look I had in mind when I took the image.

Now I need to get to work on deciding on my image for tomorrow :)

5/11/2009

23/365 I met up with a group of friends from 5 minute photographer web site at the Brighton Baths tonight. This image was entirely accidental in nature and resulted from my going to take a photograph of the lights on the pier and moving the camera downwards during the resulting long exposure. I really like the effect and I guess some striking images are the result of pure serendipity. The only post processing on this image was to crop to a panorama format and to put the border on. I look forward to other "mistakes" in the future.

3/11?2009

21/365 Today I went to visit Ripponlea ( http://www.ripponleaestate.com.au/ )which is a beautiful old stately home built by Australia's first minister for defense, Sir Frederick Sargood and later left to the people of Victoria by Mrs Louisa Jones who was the last private owner of the property and who fought hard to maintain the grounds when the ABC sought a compulsory acquisition order for part of the grounds. The grounds are a delight to wander and I spent around 4 hours doing so. This image was taken with my cannon G9 set to macro and held under the flower (which faced downwards). It took several attempts to get the framing the way I wanted it but I ma very pleased with the delicate and slightly soft image that has resulted. The only PP is s light crop and levels adjustment.

I also purchased a Ripplea bear to serve as a victim for some off camera work until such time as I can recruit other vicitms.

2/11/2009

20/365 Tonight, after looking out the kitchen window I decided to try some macro images, unfortunately hubby has my battered Tamron 90mm macro with him in Mildura. SO resorted to my Canon G9 which doesn't do a bad job. Not convinced that this isn't a little too dark, will have another look in a couple of days to see how I feel about the toining beofre I decide.

1/11/2009

19/365

I recently watched video presented by Gavin Hoey on photographing smoke ( http://gavtrain.blogspot.com/2009/07/smoke-photography-made-simple-week-62.html) so tonight I set up with some sandlewood incense against my black velvet background. Focusing on the smoke was not an easy process, however I found that by focusing on a solid column of smoke and waiting for that column to split led to much more reliable focus.