Friday, December 31, 2010

New Year's Day Fireworks - Sydney, Australia

New Year's Day Fireworks - Sydney, Australia
New Year's Day Fireworks - Sydney, Australia 

New Years eve celebrations were fairly low key this year. I was at a friends place for a barbecue dinner followed by fireworks on the harbour. People usually get to the foreshore fairly early (8.00 - 9.00 in the morning...) and claim spots for their chairs and picnic blankets. We couldn't be bothered going through all of that and ended up on leaving home at around 10.30 PM.

More images after the jump. Happy New Year everyone.

New Year's Day Fireworks - Sydney, Australia
New Year's Day Fireworks - Sydney Australia

We had decided to head to a location on the lower North Shore as it was not too far from home. The area was really crowded by the time we got there but I did manage to find enough room to setup the tripod without blocking anyone's view. We had unobstructed views of the city from where we were and had to hang around for only half an hour. No complaints form me.

New Year's Day Fireworks - Sydney, Australia
New Year's Day Fireworks - Sydney, Australia

The most annoying thing about photographing fireworks is the smoke. The first few photographs turn out alright but the others smoke obstructed the view of the city in some of the later images.

New Year's Day Fireworks - Sydney, Australia
New Year's Day Fireworks - Sydney, Australia

All the photographs in this post were captured with a Canon 7D and a Canon 24 - 105mm lens. I also used a tripod and a remote shutter release.

New Year's Day Fireworks - Sydney, Australia
New Year's Day Fireworks - Sydney, Australia

New Year's Day Fireworks - Sydney, Australia
New Year's Day Fireworks - Sydney, Australia

New Year's Day Fireworks - Sydney, Australia
New Year's Day Fireworks - Sydney, Australia

New Year's Day Fireworks - Sydney, Australia
New Year's Day Fireworks - Sydney, Australia

New Year's Day Fireworks - Sydney, Australia
New Year's Day Fireworks - Sydney, Australia

New Year's Day Fireworks - Sydney, Australia
New Year's Day Fireworks - Sydney, Australia

New Year's Day Fireworks - Sydney, Australia
New Year's Day Fireworks - Sydney, Australia



Wednesday, December 29, 2010

getsuga Tensou Wallpaper

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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

9/52 - Tennis

Tennis
Tennis

With December coming to an end and the Australian open kicking off early next year, I figured I'd shoot something Tennis related. I had seen a similar photograph taken by David Hobby a while ago and had been waiting for an opportunity to try the lighting technique he used. This is the result.

Read on for lighting info and setup shots.

Tennis - The lighting setup
Tennis - The lighting setup

The photograph above was a single exposure lit by two strobes. A snooted Canon 430 EX II was fired at 1/64th through a 1/2 CTO gel to light up the ball. The light was bounced using a white foam-core board and a white A4 sheet from below the ball to light up the shadow areas.

A Canon 580 EX II was fired at 1/32 through a green gel at a black background (I didn't have a black foam-core board so I just "dressed" a white board in a black t-shirt).

The total exposure time was 6 seconds. The in-built wireless flash control on the 7D was used to fire the Canon 430 EX II. As soon as the Canon 430 EX II fired, I zoomed in a bit and manually fired the Canon 580 EX II with a cactus trigger. I then zoomed in again and triggered the 580 EX to create a ring around the ball. I repeated the process to create each of the rings around the ball.

The only post processing I did was cloning out the bottle which I had placed the ball on.

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Nico Robin Wallpaper

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Monday, December 27, 2010

Naruto Wallpaper

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Kyubi
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Sakura Haruno Wallpaper

Haruno Sakura wallpaper
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Roronoa Zoro Wallpaper

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Franky One piece Wallpaper

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