Little Horror
Manual Mode,1/60 sec,ISO 400, F3.2 50mm Flash,
post processing Photoshop Elements 8.
Curious
Apperture priority, 1/800 Sec, F5, ISO400, 96mm
Monday 31 October 2011
Thursday 27 October 2011
Week 4. Night time on the quays
The other week I spent a couple of hours on the quays and I felt that I didn't do it justice, and so as you can see I went back! Unfortunately this time the wind was howling down the ship canal, as your probably aware on Monday evening 24th we were having really high winds. Trust me to go out that night.
Although I'm sure that I'll spend many more hours there in the near future trying to just capture that shot.
The shot with the Train wheels, I used a hand held flash gun that wasn't meant for my camera at all, I set it to manual and fired it at one eighth power and fired my camera at eight seconds. I was pleased at the results, especially as it was just trial and error.
Most of the shots that I took I did quite a lot of work on in Photoshop Elements. The buildings were lob sided and so I had to straighten them with correct camera distortion. And then I felt that some of them needed darkening with Adjust Lighting/Levels, as wall as using other tools such as Clone Stamp, Cut and Paste, Layers as well as other bits and pieces. All of the following shots were taken using a tripod with my camera bag strapped on to help weigh it down.
Matchstick Men
Manual mode, 8 seconds, F11, ISO 100, Focal length 18mm,
Blue Heaven
The shot of the moon was taken separately, although it was not quite as easy as I thought.
Mode Manual, 1/250 sec, F11, ISO 100, 200mm Lens, Tripod, No Flash.
Manipulated in Photoshop Elements 8
The Working Class
Manual mode, 8 seconds, F11, ISO 100, Focal length 39mm,
Bright Lights
Manual mode, 13 seconds, F11, ISO 100, Focal length 18mm,
The Future
Manual mode, 15 seconds, F11, ISO 100, Focal length 18mm,
Under Construction
Manual mode, 20 seconds, F11, ISO 100, Focal length 27mm,
Lonely Walk
Manual mode, 8 seconds, F11, ISO 100, Focal length 24mm,
Moon Walk
As Lonely Walk, with a little extra help from Photoshop Elements 8.
Holiday Inn
Manual mode, 6 seconds, F11, ISO 100, Focal length 37mm,
Media City
Manual mode, 5 seconds, F11, ISO 100, Focal length 50mm,
Dark Nights
Manual mode, 6 seconds, F11, ISO 100, Focal length 18mm,
Lowery Outlet
Manual mode, 5 seconds, F11, ISO 100, Focal length 18mm,
Blue Lagoon
Manual mode, 6 seconds, F11, ISO 100, Focal length 48mm,
Monday 17 October 2011
Week 3
This week we were asked to go out and get some landscape shots.
Well after sitting by the side of the Manchester Ship canal for two and a half hours. The following shots were the best that I could come up with, especially as I left my tripod at home ( excuse ). I got to the Quays at about three thirty and spent most of my time just watching the light change and the clouds roll in, it was really quite dramatic. I made the decision a few Weeks ago to keep my camera settings on manual mode rather than using the other settings and making it easier for myself.
Manual Mode, 32mm Lens, 1/200 Sec, F11, ISO 200.
Week 3
Manual Mode, 18mm Lens, 1/100 Sec, F11, ISO 1600
Converted from B&W - Colour in Photoshop Elements
Saturday 8 October 2011
GOLDEN OLDIES
EASTMAN KODAK
No 3 Eastman plate camera
I inherited this magnificent piece of engineering some years ago. I decided to take a shot of it using a sheet of wrapping paper for the background. Using the camera's flash to highlight the hologram effect in the paper.
jpg
Aperture priority
1/60th sec
F8
iso 100
Flash fired
THE GOLDEN GIRLS
STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM
This shot was taken during the summer, whilst the girls had a picnic in the garden.
I had seen this mixture of black and white and colour in a magazine, and so I thought I'd give it a go.
aperture priority
jpg
1/200th sec
F4
iso 200
50mm
Manipulated in Photoshop Elements 8
Grand Daughter
DEEP IN THOUGHT
I took this shot as Casey was deep in thought
Manual
jpg
1/320th sec
F5.6
iso 200
55mm
manipulated in photoshop elements 8
Thursday 6 October 2011
Grand Daughter
Abbi
This portrait was taken by the window with a reflector that I bought on e-bay. There was no other form of light used other than that entering the window. This was just a lucky shot as I'd only ever seen this type of photo in magazines. What I did was to take my camera right up close to the lightest part on Abbi's face and take a reading of the camera and then to stand back and recompose my shot as well as to use the original readings. The background was just just a cheap black throw.
Exposure mode Manual
Canon 450D
Shutter speed 1/60 sec
Aperture F 5.6
ISO 200
Focal lenght 74mm
Lens Canon 55-250mm F4-5.6
Dressing Gown
Charles
This shot was taken using the same procedure as the previous one.
This portrait was taken by the window with a reflector that I bought on e-bay. There was no other form of light used other than that entering the window. What I did was to take my camera right up close to the lightest part on Charles's face and take a reading of the camera and then to stand back and recompose my shot as well as to use the original readings. The background was just just a cheap black throw.
Exposure mode Manual
Canon 450D
Shutter speed 1/60 sec
Aperture F 4
ISO 200
Focal length 50mm
Focal length 50mm
Lens Canon 55-250mm F4-5.6
Monday 3 October 2011
NOT A WINTER PANSY
Ornamental flower
This shot was taken so that I could emphasize the flower by blurring the background. The way I did this was to use my Canon 450D with a 50mm F1.8 lens.
Taken at :
1/200th sec
F1.8
ISO 200
Although if I Had taken the same shot at F20 with a much faster shutter speed and the same ISO, then I would have achieved both the foreground as well as the background in focus giving me a greater depth of field.
Sunday 2 October 2011
Controlled Blur 2
In this shot I was trying to control the depth of field by keeping the first two balls (the nearest to you)
in focus and sending the other ball and the background out of focus.
Raw Format converted to Jpeg
Aperture priority, 1/800 sec, F 10, ISO 200, focal length 50mm, Lens 50mm 1,8
Night Light
Night Light
This shot was taken on the bridge at junction 4 on the M56
Canon 450D, 25 seconds, aperture priority F20, ISO 200, Focal Length 55mm,
Lens 18-55mm f3.5- 5.6. tripod used.
As you can imagine I have added the moon in with Photoshop Elements. The shot of the moon I took earlier this year
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