I caved and bought the Canon 5D Mark 2. I’ve been lusting after it for a while and thought now was as good a time as any, so I made the purchase and tried not to freak out while handing over my credit card.
First pics taken on the new camera! Games night at Chatswood.
A rare day out in the city with Alec, his dad and his dad’s wife, Lisa.
We started out at the Monet exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
I was experimenting with my camera, trying a few different things. Alec was kind enough to be my model.
From my photography class last week – throwing water around in the car park. It was a lot of fun – even though the results are a bit all over the place!
Whoops – I got the bucket in this one!
I think this looks a bit heart-shaped.
Whoops again – totally missed this shot.
A bit of lens flare and got the light in it as well, but I like the shape.
Tonight’s class was how to shoot for fashion. The lighting set-ups were a lot of fun and really useful – I have so much to learn!
Our model wasn’t really a fashion model – or a model at all it turned out! She was a 5’2″ film student from France… Still, she was very obliging and tried her best to make 10 students happy 🙂
Here are the results of my attempt. I’m quite happy with the pics except that the background doesn’t look as white as it should – I will have to do some re-touching in my old friend Photoshop I think!
Just a few pics from the weird weather lately.
This one was driving in to work this morning. The fog right now is amazing. I can’t see out my office window.
Sunset yesterday – love the colours and light!
These are the result of my last photography class.
This was taking in my photography class during lighting test. Man I look sad!
Mucking around at the end of class last week.
I have enrolled in a photography class with the Australian Centre of Photography – Lighting 1. I was a bit worried that I would be really behind in terms of technical knowledge as apart from the basics I am self-taught, but I did my first practical class tonight and I loved it.
We shot wine glasses in a studio using a tungsten light source – from an old projector. The shadows were fabulous. We added water and food colouring to get the beautiful colours.
