Not blogged for a while, so here is a sunset:

Just been playing with 360 degrees panoramas at CleVR:

Not a very pretty garden, but you get the idea. Link if you can’t see it.

This week playing with a light box and also doing some experiments with a studio flash and a softbox.

The light box was “daylight” balanced, however there were fluorescent and tungsten lights around the room that may have interfered now and then. I generally used an exposure that was 2 stops overexposed judging by the camera’s light meter.

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This picture I did hand-held without a flash:

These used the studio flash and softbox:

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More playing with liquids and food colouring this week. This one was a bit hit-and-miss.

The set up was a camera on a tripod with a Speedlite flash set on “multi” or “strobe” setting. Camera was ISO 100, 125th second, and f/16. Shutter was set to continuous shoot. My camera only manages 3 frames per second, and doesn’t have a very big buffer before it has to write to the memory card.

The liquid was milk with food colouring in it. Drips were allowed to fall by turning a tap on some glass equipment that looked liked it came out of a school’s chemistry lab.

I took nearly 300 photos but still not satisfied with the results.

Later on a played around with a studio light and softbox to take some pictures of shells. I’ll try and get a bit more arty next week.

What fun you can have with some water, food colouring, glue, a light and a camera!

Flickr and Moo allow you to produce these nifty “business” cards that have your photos on the back:

Now that I’ve got them I trying to find people to give them to!

I’m quite surprised that how a mediocre picture can look quite good when cropped to a letter box shape.

Having just started using Flickr, I’ve been lured into joining the 365 days project. The idea is that you take a self portrait every day for a year. Just what a self portrait consists of is a bit loose - anything as long as you took the photo and it contains a bit of you.

You can see my efforts here. Days when I have more time I’ll try and be a bit creating/experimental. Other days there will probably just be a quick picture of me at my desk.

Cheery photo to brighten up the day.