With the deadline fast approaching, Sarah and I finally did our homework, go
ing to Festival City where we saw something move a few weeks back.
But first, on the way I shot this out the window:
Check out the number plate on the car.
1/30s, F11, 100ASA
That's the only reason I'm sharing this rather dull image - I was intrigued by how the pole and the motion combined to offset the car.
(Right, am I doing something wrong, or does Blogger always drop the photo at the top of the page, and then give you only a TINY window to work in so you can't see how it all looks? This is really starting to get my goat.)
Anyway, car hijinks over, Sarah took over the camera and took these next two photos.
0.6s, F14, 100ASA
2.5s, F22, 100ASA
My best effort does not stand up well to comparison, but here it is anyway:
3.2s, F22, 100ASA
cheers for now, N+S
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I too went to Festival City and took a load of photos of the revolving lights and the carousel. I particularly like Sarah's capture of the horse amid background chaos of white lights. It's pity there's not more colour, but short of changing thousands of light bulbs, we're stuck with our subject matter!
ReplyDeleteHow did you do with the Tripod Police? I had no trouble at all at DFC.
As for problems posting, this is what I do YMMV:
1. Reduce the final image to 800x600 or thereabouts in consideration of those on Itisalot's cr^ppy bandwidth.
2. Edit the blog entry in HTML mode.
3. Insert the image as 'large' and 'centred'.
4. The code for the image is three or four lines of HTML between 'a' tags.
5. Cut (or better, copy) the code to insert the image where you want it in the text.
...then use a pin to make a small hole in each end of the egg, and blow the contents into a small bowl...
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Hurah, yet another set, well done.
ReplyDeleteSorry car ones don't do it, however the festival center ones are much better.
- Horse.
Nice the head is not bad, if suffering lack of light.
An off camera flash mounted on the hourse in front would have enabled a rear curtain flash just to freeze the hourse. (I say off camera because if you were on camera axis you would also light the carosel).
- Light Tunnel.
Like this,not sure what it is but the light looks very delicate and lace like.
- Carosel.
I'd have been tempted to reframe with the carosel slightly off center and then used on camera rear curtain and used a flash to freeze Sarah as a fore ground subject.
Well done, keep up the good work, next one soon !
Cheers,
Richard B.
Nick
ReplyDeleteThe Car Shot, I think I may have a guess of an answer as to why this happened. The shutter on a camera (behind the mirror) is a left right sweeping curtain over the sensor (or at least it was in my dad's SLR camera I took appart with my new set of watchmakers screw drivers as a kid and earned myself a week of groundings and still havn't been forgiven).
As you have travelled pasted the car at speed the shutter has come across and coincided with the lampost as you have passed. In the time it has taken you pass the lamp post you have moved slightly and the paralax has taken effect either side of the lamp post. Far fetched in terms of the probablitiy of it happening but I reckon that is the cause me old mucker.
Either that or you are living in photoshop world and were victim to a bad case Mr Bailey adjusting an image while you were still in it.....which is probably just as likely.
Yes, I think parallax definitely has something to do with it, (for the car shot). Not photoshop world, I can assure you. Let me ponder.
ReplyDeleteRe the horse: I think it could be cropped to reposition the horse. Otherwise I wouldn't change a thing. Personally, I think it's better blurred - the rear curtain whatsimejigga sounds like it might freeze it a bit too sharply, which would have a different effect. It would also change the mood, similarly to using a flash at a party gives a different mood to a shot. Hell, I just don't like flash that much, but it's not my shot, so who am I to say?
The carousel, which is my shot, I think could have been improved by the removal of the barriers and the plants. In fact, this would have improved the whole carousel experience, in my opinion. But that would almost certainly have brought the security guys down onto me. As for the tripod police - we just rested the camera on a seat.