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Behind the Shots - A long journey for a 2 year newbie
May 2015 is when I start showing interest on walking the streets in search for something to snap.
Recently with the generosity of Sifu Robing Wong. I am really enjoying it.
Below are some shots from Yesterdays photo walk.17Apr 24, 2017 -
Underwater Critters of Anilao Philippines - Image Heavy
I recently got back from a diving trip to Anilao in the Philippines. We don't see much underwater photography on this forum, so I thought I'd share these. All are shot with an EM-5 mk 1 and Panny 45mm macro lens in a Nauticam housing.
Fish hiding in coral. This one actually won the informal little photo contest we had among the members of our tour. Half of the winning photos in this contest were shot using Olympus M4/3 cameras! The others were a mix of Canon and Nikon SLRs.
A Moray Eel, up close and personal.
A little Goby, about 1" long.
Cuttlefish.28Apr 15, 2017 -
Sports Portraiture
Meet Joe Harrison. A gentleman who has just celebrated his 100th 100 break in snooker. (No, it's nothing like pool!)
I was asked by a local working men’s club to create the image, which would be framed and hung on the club wall.
Like a lot of snooker halls, the lighting is fairly dim, and this is accentuated by the overhead table lights. Here, the overhead lights were fluorescent tubes, and their colour temperature wasn’t particularly conducive to the atmosphere of the room. This was mainly due to the fact there were four tubes, and even without a colour meter, it was fairly obvious at least one of the tubes was a completely different colour temperature to the other three.
No matter, as I wanted to take full control of the lighting to create the atmosphere as I felt it should be. Just enough light to hint at the room, but almost all of the light on our main subject, Joe, with enough fall off to create that classic overhead triangle of light often seen in the promotional posters such as “The Color of Money”.
As there isn’t a vast amount of room above the table, the best way to recreate the light would be two light sources, one either side, and both tightly controlled. I used an ELB 400 with an action head connected to port B and firing through a horizontal stripbox with honeycomb fitted. It was set to fire at an output of 3.0. The stripbox was placed along the table edge (frame left) and about a foot above it, just in line with Joe’s head and shoulders. This allowed the light to illuminate Joe and that end of the table.
A second ELB 400 was set up in an identical manner on the opposite side of the table. Same height and attitude, and the same output. They were both angled downward toward the centre of the table.
Finally, I used a third ELB 400 and action head, again connected to the B port at 3.5. It was firing through an 80×80 folding softbox at a height of about six feet, with the box acutely angled down to fill the table top...11Mar 29, 2017 -
A little adventure
This time of year is great in the mountains. The snow has a solid crust to it and the trails are empty. I wanted to head up to a high mountain lake, but the trailhead was quite a bit up a closed road. No problem with a fat bike.
The moon was amazing on the way up.
I knew the snow would not be rideable after a certain point, so I strapped on the snowshoes.5Apr 12, 2017 -
Rotterdam Architecture
PhotoWalk in Rotterdam a week ago (with EM10 mark I):
Some pics made with old manual Pentax 50mm 1.4, others with Oly 14-150.
Using the old Pentax with the EM10 was great fun and quite easy to use.... much much easier than with my previous EPL1.
Many where with Diorama art mode.
All reprocessed via Olympus IB (that I got with Epl1) or via Olympus Viewer 3 (that I got with Em10) : sharpening, contrast, and recropping, sometimes from the OCC jpeg, sometimes from the Raw file to test a different filter, and then re-processed in IB8Apr 11, 2017 -
First trip to Venice
This year we decided to visit Venice (Italy) for the first time. We went for 4 days last february.
The city is really wonderful and probably unique. 4 days is quite short, we will probably go back
The good point going in February is that the sunset is quite early so it doesn't interfere with dinner...
Sunrise is already quite early, but it made a nice walks before breakfast (at 7:30 am, you only see photographers with tripods in the city.)
The weather was quite cloudy except for last day, so it was quite difficult for me to get good pictures during the day, but at sunrise/sunset, it was very photogenic.
I sticked to the "basics" for a first visit, next time I'll probably search for more a "personal" angle.
There was some very interesting atmosphere in the city (I usualy don't like crowded places but I fond it very relaxing) that I didn't manage to catch this time.
First "basic" is the view on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore from the watefront next to Piazza San Marco.
At sunset:13Apr 1, 2017
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