Movement - Richards Attempt

Hi All,

It's that time of year when there is nothing left to do but trawl the Mauls, however, at least this weekend there was some point. I was able to do this assignment, hope you like.

Dubai maul is famous for tripod police and being very anti photo, no tripods, no flash (it's "professional equipment") etc..
Therefore all of these were hand held and used photoshop to give me the balance of slow shutter speed and detail in the divers.

Close up
Shutter priority.
1/200, F4, ISO 400
Canon 350D, Sigma 17-70 Mancro
Hand held (tripod police !)
Pop up flash for fill.
Only very minor photoshop :-
- Smoothing the dried water drops on divers head.
- 2 degree tweak and minor crop to make horizontal.

Stood Back
Composite image.
Shutter priority
1/13, F4, ISO 100, Slow shutter to capture the falls.
1/200 sec, F4, ISO 400, Fast shot to capture the diver.
Canon 350D, Sigma 17-70 Mancro
Photoshopped to bring together, also :-
- Smoothing the dried water drops on divers head.
- Masked levels on the diver.
- Cloned out a complete diver top right as it badly effected toe composition.
- Cloned in small section at bottom where falls didn’t fill the frame and a small pebble that was sticking out and effecting flow.

Flying
Composite image.
Shutter priority
1 sec, F36, ISO 100, Slow shutter to capture the falls.
1/200 sec, F8, ISO 400, Fast shot to capture the diver.
Canon 350D, Sigma 17-70 Mancro
Pop up flash for fill.
Photoshopped to bring together, also :-
- Smoothing the dried water drops on divers head.
- Masked levels on the diver.
- Cloned out the stand on divers belly.
- Filled in small section at right and bottom where falls didn’t fill the frame.

Flying serious Photoshop.
Same as flying but also added about 8 varying layers of movement blur.

As always comments, critque and any abuse welcome.

Cheers,
Richard B.

Time and Motion

Well, hot on the heals of Colin I thought I too would kill a bit of time and knock out my Motion homework. Decided to go for a time theme, taking shots of a pocket watch (wedding present from Imogen) but using it as a pendulum.

f1.8 75mm(DE) 1" . f1.8 75mm(DE) 0.5"

f1.8 75mm(DE) 1" . f2.5 75mm(DE) 1/3"

My personal favorite of the set is the one below as, although it doesn't show as much of the path of the motion I like the fact the watch is in focus, and there is almost a full image of the watch in teh red blur area. Not sure why, but that amused me.

f2.5 75mm 1/3

I took these shots using my old faithful black sheet as a back drop and then shooting the shots at low aperture to throw out any texture in the back drop. I then lit the watch with a homemade lamp comprising a load of Christmas tree fairly lights (soft reddish light), a previous attempts at a home made ring flash, and then used rear curtain sync on the on board flash to freeze the watch at the end of the exposure (sharp white light):

Post shooting tinkering included cropping a little in some cases, shapening slightly and adjusting the colour to make the background a uniform black. Oh and hitting the delete button about 300 times to get rid of all the shots where the watch is out of focus or off the shot all together.

The Ghostly Bike

The aim here was to actually post something for the next homework (movement) before the rest of you get round to it. Only in some vain hope that people will not notice how late I was with the previous one. Still not what I was hoping for as I really wanted the tunnelling afect around the bike but ot do that it would need a rider and he is still in the UK.

Reflections

Have to admit to having a play with the HDR software that you all seem to use with this one.

Light - In B&W

The candles looked really naff in colour so ran it again in Black and white. Liked the results better. Richard did show me some fancy tricks with photoshop but forgot them 2 minutes after he told me.

Light in NYC

Late Homework

A few days late, apologies.

These first two go together and are meant to show the changing light of sunset in the big city, but indirectly.

Warehouse.

Top: f4.0, 1/50, 100asa, 70mm (D)

Bottom: f3.5, 1/30, 800asa, 70mm (D)

Next up, the same sunset, but shot directly and zoomed in a tad for effect. Note the plane.

Hellfire

f5.0, 1/30, 800asa, 63mm (D)

There are more sunset ones, but I won't bore you. ... Ah, the hell with it.

Dusky Docks

f3.2; 1/20, 800asa, 35mm (D)

Now, if only I'd remeber to bracket it so I could HDR it...

Final entry: I've included this because of the lack of light. I shot this at night with ambient city light. ie, you could make out people but not features and no colours. I rested the camera on my knee for a long exposure (high tech, I know), hence the blur. There was a guy in the background selling light-wands. It looks a bit fuzzy on blogger, possibly because I reduced the size and it's up at 1600asa. Looks great full size, though.

Concert

f2.8, 1.6s, 1600asa, 24mm (D)

Sarah also did her homework, and hers is much more dynamic:

Like a Virgin

f22, 1/4, 400asa, 28mm (D)

Next Assignment = MOVEMENT due 1st Sept

Here is the next one :-
Movement
Due 1st of September.

As for those who haven't done the last subject (sorry, I mean, taken it but not downloaded off the camera yet) come one !

If you don't belive me for "Movement" here is the random topic generator :-