wellington waterfront yesterday Canon 1d with a 50mm prime.

Tried my hand at steel wool photography - dark surroundings, long exposure (5 sec) with subject spinning lit steel wool (grade oooo). the effect is amazing as the sparks coming off makes 100's of light-trails, and breakup into more when they hit the ground. In post editing the white balance is set to "tungsten" which change the light-trails from orange to a brilliant white. like so;

autumn or fall must be the best time of the year for outdoor photography - the richest colors and crispest air. we went to the park - kids on the unicycles and me taking pictures of the flowers and mushrooms.

 

Hi smee again

Me and the boys went to the school yard - OJ wanted to practice on his Unicycle, great opportunity for some pictures.

Hi-speed chase:

Followed by EW:

I thought I would try some HDR effects for a picture I thought would need it as the sky was washed out while the foreground was pretty dark, Photoshop does works well as an HDR processor fr this two stop bracketed image:

You can never go wrong on a sunset, hey:

til next time


 

Finally I have finished editing the images I have taken of trafic passing the the old train station building using the same nd filter, results:

This is a crane-truck passing in front of Wellington train station, I had a hard time extracting the traffic cones in the foreground and you would probably still see reminiscence of the editing process.

- Cropped out the traffic cones, its quicker but I lost half the train station building - still a cool image though

Long time - no see! sorry

I went to wellington waterfront on Wednesday, lunchtime, and toke some images of the people walking, jogging and cycling while using my adjustable ND filter. Though the images came out ok I's a bit disappointed in the shadow cast in the two opposite corners and light cast in the the alternative opposite corners. I guess this was an efect created by the to opposing polarizing filters used to make up the ND filter.

As I said - ok:

The following two shots included cyclist, one wearing a red shirt and the other a blue. For the old man I would say - thank you, for your movements made to these images special;

You might have noticed the manhole cover is missing in the second shot - I could not edit-out the cover in "red cycle's" shot