Picture of a spider taken at the bottom of my garden.
Tag Archives: photography
Lomography
Got a roll of film developed from the Lomo camera.
From the top. (I really like that you can see three of the legs in this one)
And the bottom
Chips
Hula hoop
London Eye
The less glamorous Weston Eye.
Me^2
Slide
Swing
Daily photo project
There’s been a bit of a theme running through the last few posts, photography. I love photos, I can spend hours on stumble-upon going through the pictures section. About 6 months ago I managed to pick up a dirt cheap Nikon D40.
Since then I have been playing around, and even started reading up on how to use it. I manage to learn something new each time, and have a long way to go, to help, I’ve started a daily photo blog to practise and learn.
Please go and have a look http://bristoldailyphoto.wordpress.com/
The Eden Project
I went to the Eden Project recently. From 2nd November to 12th February they have a late opening, they put up lanterns and special lighting, I took my camera.
Tilt-Shift Photography
I discovered tilt-shift photography a few month ago on one of my regular haunts, the MacRumors.com forums. Someone had posted a video of what looked like stop motion model animation, but was of real life subjects. The video is amazing and well worth watching.
It was shortly after finding this that I went out and bought a nikon D40…
Disclaimer, none of these are mine (although they are hosted on my website, bandwidth theft is bad, mmmkay), click on the picture to go to the source I got it from.
As far as I know, the method involves either using a dismantled lens, an expensive/special lens, or photoshop/the gimp. The trick seems to be to reduce the depth of field, so the foreground and background are out of focus, as if you were using a macro lens very close to the subject, while actually using a wide lens at a distance (and preferably from a height).
There are hundreds of examples on the internet, I’m off to google some more of them.
