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Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

~Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland~

Blinds and Bokeh 2

Eliminate physical clutter. More importantly, eliminate spiritual clutter.

~Terri Guillemets~

I shot this early this morning but was hoping to do something else, this is my fall back shot!!!

Christmas Spirit bokeh

Project50 13/50

I want you inside me!

This project is really starting to wipe me out, I'm putting a lot of pressure on myself to keep the quality really high. Hopefully I can make it through the next 37 days without breaking down and doing a cop-out shot.

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Strobist:

• 580ex II above the camera on 1/16 power through my Westcott Apollo softbox.

Project50 15/50

This girl drives me crazy… and I can't get enough of it.

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Strobist:

• 580ex II 1/8 power through my Westcott Apollo camera right, with a full CTO gel.

• 430ex II on 1/32 power camera left with a 1/4 CTB gel.

Project50 28/50

It's been a strange sorta day.

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Strobist:

• 580ex on 1/1 power through a Westcott shoot through umbrella fired by Canon ST-E2 (infrared) to get the 1/5000 sync speed.

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.

~Baltasar Gracian~

Project50 32/50

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Strobist:

• 580ex II camera right on 1/8 power through my Westcott Softbox.

• 430ex II camera right on 1/4 power into a Westcott umbrella.

Project50 27/50

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Rainy day.. wet glasses

I played around with some vintage effects in photoshop and this was the result..

Project50 38/50

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Strobist:

• 580ex II camera left on 1/32 power through my Westcott Softbox.

Project50 25/50

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Strobist:

• 580ex II camera left on 1/8 power through a Westcott Apollo.

Wake up!

Project50 33/50

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Strobist:

• 580ex II camera left on 1/64 power through my Westcott Softbox.

Project50 18/50

Oh No — John O'Nolan got pwnd!

Kym has just put up the video of this being done, you can see it HERE!

John & Japh stopped by today after Wordcamp, it was great to see John again and great to meet Japh.

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Strobist:

• zOMG! Natural Light!

Project50 42/50

There was a fair on in Nottingham today so I used to for some boktopian background. Kym didn't really have all that much fun though :(

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Strobist:

• 580ex II camera left on 1/16 power through my Westcott collapsable umbrella.

Sajnos, nem éles, korán reggel nem jutott eszembe az ISO!

It's out of focus,but it was sooo early!

Project50 45/50

This is Olivia, she keepsa copy of Love After Love by Derek Walcott in her purse at all times just incase she needs it.

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Strobist:

• 580ex II & 430ex II both on full power camera left through a shoot through umbrella fired on high speed sync via my Canon ST-E2.

Rules for a pretty woman : Read a lot! You'll never know who will snap a shot!

Somebody once told me this : We do things because of three reasons- interest, passion and talent. I won’t disagree but I’d say we do things because of five things – interest, passion,talent,time and resources.

I have always wanted to jumpstart a project which will further hone my creativity in the field of photography. I’ve always had the interest, passion and talent (humbly speaking) but never had the time and resources. Since a month long shortened office hours is about to begin, I have finally decided to initiate my brainchild “Project 50: 50 shots with 50 mm lens”.

Just like any other favorite thing, one’s pet peeve must always have a nickname. Mine came a bit late. For six months from date of purchase, I have named my Sony A700 only recently. Like a progeny between Eljudie and Sony Aplha A700, I would like you to meet ELPHA! =)

Magic is everywhere. Let me count thee from one to fifty!

I've reach the end of my 50 photos for 50 days with a 50mm lens project. I've learned that I really like this lens. It's great stopped down and wide open at f/1.2. The Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L USM is an amazing piece of glass and despite what you may read online this lens is truly a dream to shoot with.

The other thing that I learned was all the different ways to light something. I deviated from the rest of the #project50 group by also including lighting in my daily shots because I also wanted to learn to work lighting with the lens. I'm glad I did as it gives me other tools in my bag that I can pull out when the situation arises.

Photography is like playing the piano. The more you practice the more stuff you can refer to. You would be one boring piano player if you could only improv using just the blues scale, same goes for photography.

On to today's daily. @photosip had DM me if I had a big finale planned and I replied back that I didn't. I decided to shoot a tomato that I was using to prepare for lunch (I was making loco moco for my daughter and myself) and needed a veggie even though we all know a tomato is a fruit.

Since I had the patties frying in the pan I needed to work fast so I decided to light the tomato with a single 430 in a shoot through umbrella. To make the background a bit interesting I pointed a 550 at the wall against the angle. The first shot was ok but the background didn't look like much so I placed 2 cups up water in front of the 550 to put some texture back there.

Why 2 cups? Because I had a 2 cup measuring cup out (remember I was cooking)

Strobist info:

1 430EX 1/4 power shoot through umbrella high camera right

1 550EX 1/2 fired through measuring cup aimed at wall

Camera settings:

1/160 f/7.1 ISO200

Lens used:

Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L USM

Setup shot can be found here

Explore May 28, 2009

Just sitting around....how you doin?

Project50 21/50

What would they say?

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Strobist:

• 580ex 1/1 power through my westcot apollo camera left.

• The SUN camera right.

Project50 50/50

Massive thanks to Martin Sarah at Kodak Express in Lincoln, she very kindly printed all these images for me.

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Strobist:

• 580ex centre top on 1/16 power through my Westcott Softbox.

• 430ex on 1/8 power top left through an umbrella box.

• 430ex on 1/8 power top right through an umbrella box.

I wont go on here, I'll save it for Monday's blog post but I wanna thank some of the awesome people that have helped me along the way:

John O'Nolan, Kym Ellis, Adam 'Light Stand' Rhoades, Richard Teasdale, Ashley Baxter, Phil Barker, Nick Hayward, Amy HIll, Roz Nunn, Adam Hockley, Sarah Whittaker, Theresa, Melissa Owen, Ben Drury, Mikee Taylor, Leah Barr, Ollie Wilkins, Charlotte Wingad, Olivia Ford, Giles McNeill, Rosie Ablewhite, Martin Czimmerl, Vimeo & anyone else that got involved. You are all awesome.

Had this idea for about a week now, but today was the day to do it since it's ma homegirl KStew's birthday.

(View at full size for sparkle effect!)

Make it a double, should make the start of the day twice as good?

Strobist: 580EX in Softbox camera right @ 1/16, triggered by RF-603 on camera.

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Originally built in September 1965 this car is now owned by Porsche GB and was developed as their Project 50 racer.

The photo was taken outside from some distance as it was sat on display in the Porsche Klub Haus at Snetterton.

Again I go along with the group's theme of flower(s) for today's daily. Honestly I'm not a flower person but as luck would have it my daughter was craving some fruit so we went down to the local Fresh & Easy and on the way out one of the employees gave us some flowers. Talk about luck huh?

I wanted to do something simple for today's shot so I placed the flower in a glass and lit it with a 430EX in a shoot through umbrella. I pointed the umbrella down and kept the distance close. I noticed though that the backside looked a bit dead so I placed a 580EX II in another shoot through umbrella close and right behind the flower.

For good measure I used the black cover of the umbrella to cover up the side that faced the wall to prevent any spill as I was lighting the wall with a gridded 550EX.

So here is my daily for today.... a flower.

Strobist info:

1 430EX (Key) 1/16 power shoot through umbrella camera right

1 580EX II (Rim) 1/16 power 1/2 shoot through umbrella camera left

1 550EX 1/16 power grid pointed at the back wall

Camera settings:

1/200 f/8 ISO100

Lens used:

Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L USM

Setup shot can be found here

Explore May 14, 2009

Project50 16/50

Coffee, she needs it.

I saw this awesome illustration the other day that I loved & forgot to save. It fully inspired me to do this shot.

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Strobist:

• 580ex & 430ex both on full power through my Westcott Apollo

• 430ex on half power behind Kym for rim

Project50 37/50

Mikee just got back from 40 days traveling round Europe… he doesn't like being back.

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Strobist:

• 580ex II camera right on 1/32 power through my Westcott Softbox with a full CTO gel.

• 430ex II behind the subject on 1/64 power through a grid with a full CTO gel.

Project50 47/50

It's so hard to do something different.

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Strobist:

• 580ex II camera right on 1/2 power through my Westcott Softbox with a 1/8 CTO gel.

• 430ex II on 1/8 power behind Mikee.

Project50 35/50

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Strobist:

• 580ex II camera right on 1/4 power through my Westcott Softbox.

So I take a quick walk down the strip to see what I could take for today's daily photo. While waiting for the cross walk I noticed a tag on it. Not anything great by any means but I thought it would make a nice "urbanish" shot for today.

Setup shot can be found here.

Strobist info:

1 430EX 1/16 power snoot grid high camera right pointed at the tag on the crosswalk button.

The wind was really kicking up and I could see my light stand sway back and forth :eek:

Project50 6/50

This stuff makes life a little easier.

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Strobist:

• 580ex II 1/8 Power camera right through an Apollo Softbox

Project50 34/50

Mel let me take a few shots of her after we enjoyed some live music. Quite an odd pose but I really liked it.

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Strobist:

• 580ex II camera right on 1/16 power through my Westcott Softbox with a 1/2 CTB gel.

• 430ex II camera left through a gridspot with a CTB gel heald by the Rhoades light stand.

Brussels street art detail

Diptych? No, fishtych.

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Technical info :

Camera : Pentax K-7

Lens : Sigma 50mm f/1.4 EX DG HSM

Exposure : 0,016s (1/60)

Aperture : f/2.0

Focal Length : 50 mm

Sensibility : ISO 100

Filter : None

Software :

Lightroom 3.0 | Photoshop CS5

Strobist Info

Luc Planson, a friend of mine, and I are making a 50|50 in the same time !!!

Please, take a look to his 50|50 Set

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Photo taken by Carsten / topfloor - please enjoy !

Beautifully decorated tree at Central Park early in the morning.

Shot with M9, 50 mm Noctilux at f/1, 125th, ISO 160.

Filename: 20091116_063346_New York Manhattan_L1000455

Project50 41/50

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Strobist:

• 580ex II camera right on 1/16 power through my Westcott Softbox with a 1/4 CTO gel.

• 430ex II on 1/64 power behind, camera left with a red gel.

Project50 46/50

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Strobist:

• MIA!

A beer or two

26-Feb-10.

Hey, is that the right direction of the bandanna????????

In Mandarin: 祝你有個快樂的週末.

In English: Have a happy weekend.

In Deutsch: Schönes Wochenende.

** Explored **

(my first explored!)

Thank you all for visiting!!

The inspiration: www.flickr.com/photos/claudiofibla/7637153602/

Project50 30/50

This is Theresa, I met her tonight, she seemed nice.

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Strobist:

• 580ex II camera right on 1/16 power through my Westcott Softbox with a full CTO gel.

• 430ex II on 1/32 power behind, through a Stofen held by my man servant Rhoades.