December 2009
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35mm scans
Here are some scans from one of the 35mm rolls I shot on my hike with my sister Liesbet last week.
I can’t remember when I last used 35mm film, but I’m sure this was the first time I used full manual setting on a 35mm film camera. I would love to experiment with some 3200 ISO b/w ilford film. What is pretty striking (but not really surprising) is that these FD lenses work much...
morning after
These pictures were taken the morning after a family xmas party in Newcastle, the morning light in this corner of the room coming through the window really mesmerized me. And as no-one in the room was keen on having their portrait taken (except for the budgie named Mozes) I had to do it by/of myself. A good thing I always carry around a little tripod. as for the expression, call it blind...
post/pre
I have used this phrase before but here we go again “it has been a fair while since my last post”. Lots of things happened since me and my sisters’ bush walk/hike, the typical(atypical) Xmas happenings. Melancholy and merriness a constant drizzle of rain, missing of loved ones overseas, happiness of my sister visiting. I will try to reconstruct the past week in a...
Christmas = lights on houses, driveby looking with the kids eyes shooting from the passenger seats.
Today I’m going on a two day hike along the coast through the national park with my sister. I’m taking my dad’s analong film camera (only if I can find a replacement battery before we leave).
This is our Xmas card for this year, will be posted asap. (I could no longer keep myself from posting it…) : )
The other day I went to watch the sunrise at the Bellambi beach with my sister. This daily phenomenon is a pretty cliché subject photographically. But still. In the weekends heaps of amateur fishermen get out there on their little boats. In this picture the only prominent boats are the one in the centre and the one to the right. When I looked at this picture at the actual pixel size (21 MP taken...
A-1
My sister brought my dad’s old Canon A-1 with her. Can’t wait to try it out! I’m pretty familiar now with all the settings on my DSLR, so using the A-1 on full manual mode should be no problem. I just love the way it’s designed, so angular, and so very advanced for a 30 year old camera! It’ll be quite a challenge to restrict myself to a 36 picture film roll.
The...
Heavily Debilitating Renditions
HDR means High Dynamic Range. It’s a photographic rendering where one combines two (or more) different exposures (both having a different range) into one image.
I just went out to take these few pictures of the sun setting behind the hills. Normally, as you can see in the thumbnail pictures below, anything that is in front of a correctly exposed sunsetty sky is rendered a black...
unsolved Australian murder
A couple of days ago I took this picture, as posted here. today somebody commented on my flickr page:
“… It is the site of quite a gory, famous unsolved Australian murder. The motel above is frequented by junkies and generally has a pretty unsavoury reputation…”
wikipedia says:
“On 29 January 1966, a cleaning lady named Wilhelmina Kruger was killed in the...
They second day after… A bit dissapointing that I did not get a call back after what I though was a great job-interview. I’m already over this minor setback, even more determined to persue my career in photography.
The picture above is something that struck me today in an old shopping mall in Wollongong. Half of the shops in this mall are out of business. The only...
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crows in the waiting room
While waiting for a job interview in an area close to Sydney’s international airport, a group of crows was hanging out there as well. I love crows, when their feathers catch the sunlight nature proves that black is a color with infinite depth. They are majestic aviators as well, only their vocal talent isn’t very soothing to say the least.
I couldn’t get closer to these...