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Cycling with M43
A thread for shooting cycling with M43. This includes, racing, touring, mountain biking, whatever, particularly the challenges of shooting moving cycling action.
13May 29, 2017 -
A Journey to South Africa
Migrating back to Olympus and micro four thirds in February 2017, I instantly began prepping for my first big travel experience. Migrating to Olympus for the size, auto-focus, speed, lens selection and in camera capabilities (such as live composition), I assembled a highly versatile kit that I hoped would suite me well:
- Olympus O-MD E-M1 ii
- Panasonic Leica 12-60 f/2.8-4
- Olympus 60 f/2.8 macro
- Olympus Pro 40-150 f/2.8
- Panasonic Leica 100-400 f/4-6.3
- Hoya R72 Infrared Filter
- Haya RA54 Red Intensifier Filter
In early May, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to stretch my abilities in South Africa. After spending 3 days in the mother city Cape Town, and 3 days on Safari in the Limpopo Province at Mabula Game Lodge - I could not be happier with the experience, nor the gear I took along he way.19May 21, 2017 -
portrait work using m4/3 since 2012 (image heavy)
Just sharing my portrait work when using m4/3 system since 2012 (before that I'm a Nikon DSLR user). I use E-M5 with 45 F1.8 and PL25 F1.4 for my first portrait, they are both very good lens are small and crazy sharp.
Now I'm using EM-1 , 714 F2.8 , 12-40 F2.8 , 40-150 F2.8 Olympus 25 F1.2 PRO , 75 F1.8 , and Panasonic Leica 42.5 F1.2 for my portrait work.36Dec 31, 2016 -
Climbing El Capitan in Yosemite
I believe El Capitan is the world's largest granite monolith, or at least close. It's a 3,000 foot wall of unbroken vertical granite. It's also probably the most famous formation in rock climbing culture. There are a hundred different routes, or paths, to climb the wall, but the most iconic is called "The Nose" and runs straight up the middle.
27Jun 12, 2017 -
Memorial Weekend Milky Way chase
Past Memorial Weekend got a chance to go out and chasses some Milky Way with a few friends of mine. Also put to the test my Nisi Natural Night Light filter that help cut the light pollution. It works great but the downside is you loose some light between 1 and 1.5 stop
[1] We started with South Tufa in Mono Lake in Eastern Sierra21Jun 10, 2017 -
Lighting the Bat!
We wanted to create a cinematic look, with the hallmarks of the DC comic hero's stomping ground. A number of things were needed, such as an interesting sky, although not necessarily a sunset. A good overcast sky, with lots of texture would have been equally good. The other main contributing ingredient, was a US style street setting, and it was this bit that had me a little worried. I live near Burnley, where the closest we get to anything remotely American is a McDonalds and a KFC.
This required a bit of homework first, so Wayne and I headed out to an abandoned power station about 20 minutes away. The flat roof had some interesting paintwork, and also elevated us above any UK distinguishable street furniture or landmarks.
The next thing we needed was distance. Enough distance that I could use a long lens to help isolate the subject, and again, add to that cinematic feel. Once happy with the location, we then arranged a date, dependant on weather, workload and availability of all parties involved.
Our Batman is Steve Hird, in a £2000+ costume. The attention to detail is incredible, and he certainly looks and sounds the part. Well, at least until you saw him arrive in an older car, chauffeur driven by his wife, because the suit isn't quite as flexible as it needs to be to drive. The fact he needed to be pulled from the car by his wife kinda ruined the illusion.
The first thing I needed to do, was to find out where I was at with the ambient light levels. Because I'm lazy, I set the ISO to 400, and took a single shot in program mode. This told me the camera believed a well exposed image should be taken at 1/25th sec and f2.8.
I now switched to manual mode and dialled in 1/25th sec, f5.6 at ISO400, which effectively underexposed the scene by two stops. This means the rooftop is basically a silhouette, but the sunset has become much richer in colour, whereas there...6Jan 27, 2016
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