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Rollerderby

2/8/2017

 
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I've just shot my third Rollerderby. A real challenge, in poor light with crazy movement of bodies. 

Car Park

13/1/2017

 
You can find interesting images anywhere. I liked the look of the fairly new car park floor and the marks left by the first few users. I went to town on these in Lightroom 6, learning a bag of new tricks along the way.

52x2

3/1/2017

 
I have committed to the WAPF 52 x 2 project; producing one colour and one mono image per week for a whole year, with a book of the images to show for it. Not an easy ask. Six weeks in, the key has simply been to get out of the house. Apart from week 1, which was super-busy at work, it hasn't been too difficult. Being on holiday for the past 3 weeks has helped :)

Cervantes

16/10/2016

 
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Roughly 200km north of Perth is the coastal village of Cervantes. We dashed up there after work on Friday for a sunset at the Pinnacles. Up at 5am for sunrise at the same location. I had fun with Hipstamatic there. On the way home, we stopped at the dunes, climbed and caught caught in a sudden wind squall - sandstorm. My poor camera. Two nice shots for my troubles.
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Welcome back to an old friend

3/10/2016

 
I haven't shot with Hipstamatic for a long time. Last week, we reconnected and I found to my delight that Hipsta had stored a whole lot of images which until now had been lost. Included in these images were the very first Hipstamatic shots I took - very simple images that set me on the pathway to years of fun and satisfaction with abstract photography.

Berlin, seen through Microsoft's Office Lens. 

5/1/2016

 
Microsoft's Office Lens is an app that was designed as a scanner: you would use it to take pictures of documents, business cards and presentations cast onto a screen. The app detects the edges of the slide/document/card, analyses the tonality of the image and then trims and enhances it, producing a neat, squared image. It's very good at that.

I decided to shoot Berlin with Office Lens - let it do its thing, and see what happens. I really like what it does with buildings shot from street level.

February 26th, 2015

26/2/2015

 
I tried out a mirrorless Sony camera a few weeks back. Really liked it. These are some shots I took, many taken at the extreme end of the 20-200mm zoom lens.

Warm Ways

24/1/2015

 
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Sometimes, I'm not sure whether a shot is "good" or not, but I really like it all the same. I've learned that there's not a lot of point in trying to shoot images that you think someone else might regard as "good" anyway. I shoot to please myself and "good" to me might simply mean that I did a more pleasing job than I might have done 6 months ago.

I took this yesterday at a football match. I thought the warm late afternoon light looked appealing and there was an opportunity to shoot people moving randomly, which I like doing. I like the arrangement of the figures and there's a certain balance in the composition (cropping very helpful here) which makes me like this picture. It's an iPhone shot, cropped and processed in Snapseed. I also ran it through Oggl, where I was able to enhance the warmth in a pleasing way.  The original shot is below.
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Church of Indifference

23/11/2014

 
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Every now and again, you hit on an editing formula that just works, from a personal satisfaction point of view. I got a huge kick out of this edit. I used Snapseed, Superimpose and DistressedFX on theis edit and then ran it through Oggl, which actually wasn't really essential. The key though, was to use Color Thief to adjust the tones to my liking. That technique has been something of a revelation, in that it will allow me to develop a more consistent result colourwise, if I so choose.
This image was featured online within 24 hours of its release! Cool.

Toowong Necropolis

18/11/2014

 
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When I was in Brisbane, I joined the Saturday night ghost tour at Toowong cemetery. Took my phone and shot what I could. With basically only torchlight available, the results were predictably rough, but I thought I might be able to make something of them in post processing. Really happy with the results tonight. I used Photoshop Express, then Glaze and finally Mextures. I think I'm starting to get a handle on Mextures finally.

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