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happy bokeh wednesday! sorry i haven't visited your streams for the past couple of days, am super busy at work with not being able to work out stupid calculations, having tons of marking to do and trying to process all my shots for the climate change job!
and i think my head will explode...!
19th June
8:10pm
-Linden-
I need to stop thinking 'I'll feel better when I wake up' and start making myself feel better. Dad did it today, when he told me to go with him to the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the UEA, which he works for sometimes. It was nice to get up and get ready to go somewhere specific.
The Sainsbury Centre is an art gallery, though it's almost like a museum in places as there's so much from so many different parts of the world. Dad had to go and meet up with a student so I looked around the Art Nouveau stuff and watched a couple of schoolkids exasperate their teacher.
On the way home, we picked up Rosa and I spent the rest of the afternoon whiling away the time on the internet and the harp. Rosa and I planned to go out and take photographs when Mum got back.
There's a little nature reserve close to our house and over the past week or so a meadow in it has erupted in beautiful white and purple flowers. We figured we'd find a way into said meadow and do pretty bokehful things and generally have a lovely time. I don't know what it is about me, but my plans just never seem to work out. Don't get me wrong, we did have a lovely time - but our beautiful meadow was overrun with stinging nettles and thistles, as well as all sorts of bugs. We couldn't really get into the thick of the flowers so we settled for a little spot on the outskirts. Rosa took portraits and I played around with manual settings (I'm actually starting to get to grips with it all now). After a bit over an hour we headed back and went into a big field and did a little more portraiture, but we lost the light at around nine pm (and also a herd of cows appeared) so we went back home. England won the football somehow, and I edited my 111 photographs. I've ended up with 12 I actually want to keep, which J told me was about an 11% success rate. I wondered about 'success' and photographs, and whether there is such a thing, and thought I might write about it some day.
Taken in SF by Pier 39 with the SONY A7R using the Lensbaby Velvet 56mm Lens.
©Brian K. Bostwick 2015
37/31 still goin strong! I'm surprised, too.
Shot with a Canon AE-1 Program on Kodak Ektar 100. Lens: Old FD 135mm f/2.5. This was at the limit of close focus. I actually had to stand on my tip-toes to get this in focus, wide open at 1/30 shutter...It's a miracle that this came out as sharp as it did.
Killing time between meetings yesterday I called in at Harmans Cross station on the Swanage Railway. No trains running so it was nice an quiet, so a good time to experiment. This is a ten shot 'panorama' using the Brenizer Method named after professional photographer Ryan Brenizer, who developed the technique for portrait shoots. The idea is to shoot up close to the subject with the lens wide open, wider the better. For this shot the two signs fill the frame in a single shot, you then overlap consecutive images to create the 'panorama'. The result is a high resolution image with the subject set against a bokehful background. The finished Tif file weighs in at 416mb!!! Not sure if a railway sign is the best subject, but it was a chance to practice on an inanimate object :-)
Using the link to the online calculator the finished shot is equivalent to using a focal length of 59 mm and an aperture of 2.25.
photographylife.com/advanced-photography-techniques-breni...