Wednesday, March 28, 2012

I Am Still Here

I took this while out on a walk in Tynehead Park with my son Peter. That day I was experimenting with shooting three exposures (over,under, and actual metered), handheld. I have posted photos like this before. I took them home and put them together in Photomatix. I tried different looks for it but when I saw the black and white in the Photomatix I knew I had what I wanted from this photo. Hope you enjoy it.

 I used the 16-80 lens at 16mm exposures, 1/60th, 1/80th, 1/125th sec at f7.1 iso 400. The photo was taken here.

Sunday, March 11, 2012

A Brick Wall

As you barrel along in life sometimes you hit a wall, sometimes you hit it so hard something breaks. Sometimes, you don't even know it happened until someone tells you. Hopefully you're listening.  

 Taken whilst doing a contortionist act on stairs directly in front of the wall using the 16-80 at 30mm 1/160th sec f4.5 iso 200 Taken approximately here.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

A Story

"It was a long tiring trip but I finally made it. The weather was very cold and the snow was blowing when I left, the train got held up several times by snow drifts. It's much warmer here. I look forward to your arrival, until then, keep well and be safe."
I made that up. I originally wanted to take a photo of Peter's pocket watch. When I started I thought I should try make the background more interesting. I got out some old travel documents my Mom kept when she was young. I thought they suited the theme as schedules were so important to the railroad an accurate well made watch was essential. As I took the photos I thought it would be fun to make a story around the photo. I settled on what maybe could have been on the back of the postcard because this is a blog and well, I don't have the patience to be a writer. 

For this I used the 50mm macro 1/4sec f8 iso 800. Light was from North facing balcony window and was taken about here (green arrow not "A"). 

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Forbidding Light

Keep out! Razor wire conveys that message very well. Too me it's nasty stuff. I wanted to capture that feeling when I saw it running along the roof. I spotted the big tangle of wire at the end and knew I had what I needed to get it.   

 The lens was the 16-80 at 80mm 1/500th sec at f9 iso 200. The photo was taken here.