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So the Southport Air Show rolled around again and as per usual the usual grey cloud rolled in…the odd bit of blue sky but not much sunshine. One year we’ll get a gloriously sunny day! This set is just of the Red Arrows who were in attendance and were a very cool highlight. More to follow as I process through the week.
L'Amour Productions Presents:
Club Inga Wind Takes New York Fashion
Models:
Bai Nightfire
RedJess (redtess69)
Naomi Coeur (sidney Coeu
Celina Lavecchia
Selina Greycloud
Janet Brink
DJ: Miss Big Red
Hostess: Cacilia McMasters
Thank you to everyone for working so hard to make this show a great success.
Thank you Inga Wind for you. And special thanks to my right hand woman for everything you do...Thanks cas......
So the Southport Air Show rolled around again and as per usual the usual grey cloud rolled in…the odd bit of blue sky but not much sunshine. One year we’ll get a gloriously sunny day! This set is just of the Red Arrows who were in attendance and were a very cool highlight. More to follow as I process through the week.
L'Amour Productions Presents:
Club Inga Wind Takes New York Fashion
Models:
Bai Nightfire
RedJess (redtess69)
Naomi Coeur (sidney Coeu
Celina Lavecchia
Selina Greycloud
Janet Brink
DJ: Miss Big Red
Hostess: Cacilia McMasters
Thank you to everyone for working so hard to make this show a great success.
Thank you Inga Wind for you. And special thanks to my right hand woman for everything you do...Thanks cas......
L'Amour
Halloween Pazzo
Style Challenge
PHOTOGRAPHER
Burly Tigerpaw
Aradia Mistwood
Co-Producer/Director
Nani Xue COO
Head of Security
OMG Best show to date. I am so impressed with what the models did creatively. They just blew me away. Thank you to the following models for all your hardwork and for making this show perfection.
Laius Mistwallow
Antyfreeman Resident
BloodyMistress Serenity
Dee Shepherd
Elisabet Lilliehook
Ficceh Resident
Tommy163 Allen
Katloader
Selina Greycloud
Zivaah Resident
Spirit Llewellyn
Brendan Macarthur
Burly Tigerpaw
Starlitestarbrite Constallation
....It started when we were little kids.
Free spirits, but already tormented by our own hands
given to us by our parents.
We got together and wrote on desks
and slept in laundry rooms near snowy mountains
and slipped through whatever cracks we could find,
minds altered....
Sandon Point, Illawarra, NSW, Australia
From the Bureau of Meteorology: "Hazardous Surf Warning for New South Wales
Issued at 4:06 am EDT on Friday 17 January 2025 for the period until midnight EDT Saturday 18 January 2025.
Surf and swell conditions are expected to be hazardous for coastal activities such as rock fishing, boating, and swimming in the following areas.
Friday 17 January
Hazardous Surf Warning for: Macquarie Coast, Hunter Coast, Sydney Coast, Illawarra Coast and Batemans Coast"
"OK", I thought, "Today's subject can be grey, breaking seas like a scene from the North Atlantic."
Yeah, right. For those who are new to my galleries / albums (depending on where you see this), my cameras have a magical power. They can flatten any ocean storm or waves to something which is not quite a mill pond, but close. So it was today. Yes, the sky was grey, yes, there were breaking waves. Yes, it looked very, VERY anodyne.
There were some surfers out in the traditional surfing spot of Sandon Point. I've been down this route before. "Sigh, do I HAVE to?", I asked myself.
"Well, better than nothing or a flattish ocean with a couple of white streaks on it, I suppose", I replied to myself.
The problem is this. Micro 4/3 (MFT) cameras, with their small sensors, really don't handle higher ISOs very well. Even when you go to a not exceptionally high ISO of 800, the detail, when viewed close up, can become as grainy as a Chinese rice paddy. For a subject like a wave on the ocean and its associated foam, you can get away with that. For a person's face, it becomes rather more noticeable.
But what I have learned from past shoots is that surfers move fast and are damn near impossible to track when you're at 150mm (an effective 300mm). Thus you need every fraction of a second speed that you can get if you don't want a blur. That means going wide open and hoping to hell that you've nailed the focal point, and asking yourself the question "How much ISO can I get away with here?"
Ideally, it's better done on a bright, sunny day but those will be in short supply for the next week or so.
A little bit of Curves adjustment magic lay in my future. Also I decided not to crop partly because it doesn't bring too much attention to his finer details, partly because I prefer to see him in the context of the expanse of the ocean. As an aside, I'm really grateful that this guy chose to buy himself a nice, bright, orange board. Photogenically my camera thanks you for that one, surfer-dude, as do I.
I could probably do with more length to put the surfers across more of the sensor, but in terms of Pro lenses the next step up is the 300mm f/4 pro at a smidge under $AUD4K... and as I said, it's f/4, so what you gain on the swing you lose on the roundabout. After that it's the 150-400 f/4.5 at an eyewatering $AUD11.2K, but that's even slower. Don't even ask the prices of even longer lenses.
No camera system is perfect. I think the larger sensor of a full frame (FF), with its ability to handle finer detail at higher ISO without graining-the-heck-out, is what is needed to do really good surfing photography. At least from this distance, which I would estimate to be 350 to 400 metres. I suspect that the OM-5 can do better results from places where it is physically possible to get closer in. But just as I found with my shoot of the AS Roma match in Perth earlier this year, you do feel the MFT compromise.
Does that mean that I regret my OM purchase? Not a bit of it. The compact size gives me freedoms that I simply wouldn't have with the heft of a full frame kit. This is invaluable when travelling. But were I to be a gentleman of leisure with a Powerball win under my belt, I'm pretty sure I'd have an FF system as well with some excellent long range glass for shots such as these.
As things stand, I do this kind of shot infrequently enough for that not to be a good value proposition.
Second in series from Southport Air Show (first post of the Red Arrows is here). This lot were cool – bigger stones than me to be doing this kind of thing. I wanted a more cinematic kind of feel to these shots so the processing is quite different. If you go to Team Guinots home page then apparently you can sign up to be a wing-walker – after you, no really, I insist….
This picture is part of the Photography for Change photographic exhibition and part of the Photography for Change Project, which was 10-week participatory photography programme that enabled participants to create their own photo-story or photographic theme and build a portfolio of images that reflect the positive aspects of their lives.
This project used photography as a means of engagement and empowerment and was managed by Meridian Raw CIC and part funded by the Big Lottery Fund
while the Sky Looks Ominious here it did little more than Rain...non the less a nice Photo Op.....also taken it Tyler,Texas.
As per my initial planning, I went to back side of Rawal Lake in order to capture some nice photos. However, it started raining and I had to resort to something else, as evident in the picture.
L'Amour
Halloween Pazzo
Style Challenge
PHOTOGRAPHER
Burly Tigerpaw
Aradia Mistwood
Co-Producer/Director
Nani Xue COO
Head of Security
OMG Best show to date. I am so impressed with what the models did creatively. They just blew me away. Thank you to the following models for all your hardwork and for making this show perfection.
Laius Mistwallow
Antyfreeman Resident
BloodyMistress Serenity
Dee Shepherd
Elisabet Lilliehook
Ficceh Resident
Tommy163 Allen
Katloader
Selina Greycloud
Zivaah Resident
Spirit Llewellyn
Brendan Macarthur
Burly Tigerpaw
Starlitestarbrite Constallation
So the Southport Air Show rolled around again and as per usual the usual grey cloud rolled in…the odd bit of blue sky but not much sunshine. One year we’ll get a gloriously sunny day! This set is just of the Red Arrows who were in attendance and were a very cool highlight. More to follow as I process through the week.
Fuegos artificiales de las fiestas de Sada 2009.
Ojalá el año que viene tengan más previsión y alguna solución con el humo y la dirección del viento. Una pena.
Quando credi di saper fare molto bene una cosa, comincia a farne una completamente diversa.
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When you think to know how to do a thing very well, begin to do a completely different one.
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L'Amour Productions Presents:
Club Inga Wind Takes New York Fashion
Models:
Bai Nightfire
RedJess (redtess69)
Naomi Coeur (sidney Coeu
Celina Lavecchia
Selina Greycloud
Janet Brink
DJ: Miss Big Red
Hostess: Cacilia McMasters
Thank you to everyone for working so hard to make this show a great success.
Thank you Inga Wind for you. And special thanks to my right hand woman for everything you do...Thanks cas......
California's weather is so strange, on one side of the street that was so many rain clouds and grey and dark, and on the other side it was sunny and baby blue.
L'Amour
Halloween Pazzo
Style Challenge
PHOTOGRAPHER
Burly Tigerpaw
Aradia Mistwood
Co-Producer/Director
Nani Xue COO
Head of Security
OMG Best show to date. I am so impressed with what the models did creatively. They just blew me away. Thank you to the following models for all your hardwork and for making this show perfection.
Laius Mistwallow
Antyfreeman Resident
BloodyMistress Serenity
Dee Shepherd
Elisabet Lilliehook
Ficceh Resident
Tommy163 Allen
Katloader
Selina Greycloud
Zivaah Resident
Spirit Llewellyn
Brendan Macarthur
Burly Tigerpaw
Starlitestarbrite Constallation
Clouds with various shades of grey over Addlestone.
Without the trees it could easily pass as a black & white photo
2021PAD 209/365 (30/07)
L'Amour Productions Presents:
Club Inga Wind Takes New York Fashion
Models:
Bai Nightfire
RedJess (redtess69)
Naomi Coeur (sidney Coeu
Celina Lavecchia
Selina Greycloud
Janet Brink
DJ: Miss Big Red
Hostess: Cacilia McMasters
Thank you to everyone for working so hard to make this show a great success.
Thank you Inga Wind for you. And special thanks to my right hand woman for everything you do...Thanks cas......
L'Amour
Halloween Pazzo
Style Challenge
PHOTOGRAPHER
Burly Tigerpaw
Aradia Mistwood
Co-Producer/Director
Nani Xue COO
Head of Security
OMG Best show to date. I am so impressed with what the models did creatively. They just blew me away. Thank you to the following models for all your hardwork and for making this show perfection.
Laius Mistwallow
Antyfreeman Resident
BloodyMistress Serenity
Dee Shepherd
Elisabet Lilliehook
Ficceh Resident
Tommy163 Allen
Katloader
Selina Greycloud
Zivaah Resident
Spirit Llewellyn
Brendan Macarthur
Burly Tigerpaw
Starlitestarbrite Constallation