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July 1, 2010
My entry this week for the Alive for 365 project, is another one from the archives:
A typical London taxi photographed by panning the camera. Doing so with a wide-angle lens creates additional distortion during panning, and only the centre of the photograph is left sharp.
Date: March ’93
Pentax Z-1; Pentax-FA 28-80mm f3.5-4.7 (zoomed to 28mm)
Hyper Program mode; -1 EV compensation; Fuji RDP 100 transparency film
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June 26, 2010
dynamic composition – changing your viewpoint (model – Carrie)
Near the end of the recent photo session with Carrie, I walked across the street to find another angle. Walking back, I noticed the sun just dipping behind the roof of this old train station. I thought it might flare interestingly if I caught the sun just on the edge there.
The problem was that I had to step into the street a few times when there was a lull in the traffic. The angle was a tough one since I had to, or rather, wanted to keep my camera at ground level to shoot up. I wanted the flare, and I wanted this angle to accentuate Carrie’s legs.
I resorted to stepping into the road, crouching down, pre-focusing, and then holding my camera away from my eye at ground level. There was no way I was going to lay down in a busy street! It took three tries, each with a series of images, until I “blindly” got the composition the way I wanted it .. with the right amount of flare.
Playing around with the controls in ACR (similar to Lightroom), got me to a retro- faded look I liked. The processing hopefully complements the sun-kissed image and add to the overall feel of the photo.
Settings: 1/250 @ f5.6 @ 200 ISO // no additional lighting
Equipment used: Nikon D3; Nikon 24-70mm f2.8 AF-S … at 24mm
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June 17, 2010
Green Point Lighthouse is the oldest Lighthouse in South Africa. I liked this juxtaposition of the older colorful lighthouse, against the drab blocky modern building. The tight composition reduced the urban landscape to geometric patterns. This was shot on slide film (Fuji RDP 100) at sunset, hence the bold golden colors.
This photo is my entry this week in the Alive for 365 project.
Nikon F90x; Nikon 80-200mm f2.8D // Cape Town, South Africa; ca. 1998
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May 22, 2010
[ Pentax Z-1; Pentax-FA 28-105mm f4-5.6 // Johannesburg, South Africa // circa '92 ]
This Harley and its rider, is my pic for this week’s entry in the Alive for 365 project.
The photograph and the details have appeared before on this blog.
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May 6, 2010
I took this photo of the Hotel du Louvre during a trip to Paris in 1993. I carefully propped my camera against a hand-railing to steady it during the slow exposure of 1/4 second. As I took my first frame, a bus drove past. I cursed my luck and took the photograph again. (This was pre-digital, and I was poor enough that every frame of transparency film that I shot was expensive.) Anyway, I cursed my luck, thinking the bus would spoil the image I was after. However, when I saw the results, the ‘accident’ looked far better than the intended shot.
This favorite photo of mine, is this week’s entry for the Alive for 365 project.
[ Pentax Z-1; Pentax-FA 28-80mm f3.5-4.7 / Fujichrome RD 100 ]
[ Paris, France / April '93 ]
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April 7, 2010
This blue sky, super-saturated with a polarizing filter, combined with a brightly colored barn, makes for a striking landscape. This photograph then is my choice this week for the Alive for 365 project.
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April 1, 2010
I received the most wonderful compliment from Laura Wilby for my entry this week
in the Alive for 365 project:
“I have to buy this one, even though I already bought the plane print and I’m supposed to be on a budget. This is such a great image! I love the feeling your image have. Neil, I’m reading your lighting book right now and your wedding images have the same feeling as this image. I know that is a lame description, but I can’t always describe visuals.”
It is a great feeling when one of my own photographs that holds meaning for me, also connects with other people. Thanks Laura!
(I have previously posted this image on the Tangents blog, with a description of how it came that I took it.)
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March 25, 2010
A photograph of my beloved Dalmation, Brakko, that I owned way back when we lived in South Africa. I used him as a test subject when I tried out my brand-new used flashmeter that I had just bought. The light is from an off-camera speedlight diffused through an umbrella that I lay on the ground. Very simple lighting. That guarded look on his face is because he wasn’t sure about an 80-200mm lens pointing straight at him.
Of the photos I took, I loved this very tight crop, with his eye the only bit of color in the frame .. aside from him not having had a bath in weeks and weeks. ;)
This photo is my entry for the Alive for 365 project this week.
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March 18, 2010
My entry this week for the Alive for 365 project, is another photo from the archives which I have posted here before.
Shot in Fujichrome transparency film, I had the window open on the WW2 vintage Junkers I was flying in. Because there was no window glass in the way, I could get a crisp photo of this DC3 following us. The golden glow to the photograph is actually the way it looked. The air pollution is more pronounced in winter due to the fires that burn on the Highveld of South Africa. And here we have the setting sun back-lighting the dust and air pollution particles. Combining all of that with the way that the late afternoon light flared on my lens, is where this photo got that beautiful warm look.
[ Pentax Z-1; Pentax-FA 28-105mm f4-5.6 // Johannesburg, South Africa // June '94 ]
And no, I don’t miss film. Really. I wish I had all my slide film captures as original digital captures. But that’s another discussion entirely.
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February 17, 2010
This super-saturated landscape photograph is my choice for this week’s entry to the Alive for 365 project. It is the lighthouse at Cape Aghulas – the southern-most tip of South Africa.
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