a photo every day for a year
This was a bit of an experiment with slow shutter speed and light. I thought the clouds might look rather interesting… Removing the colour brought out the movement of the clouds, but before that they were a browish muck.
I find the soft texture of the clouds and the contrasting textured outline of the trees quite pleasant.
I can’t remember what the quality of the ale was, but I do remember being amused by the name and the label. The entire evening at our friend’s place playing cards was quite amusing.
I’m not sure what happened to the metadata of this image, but it was taken with an iPhone 3Gs and Camera+. I seems that I forgot to take a photo on this day, so this one is filling in from earlier in the month.
As I was reading about flash modes on my camera I also saw mention of iTTL flash, which doesn’t work with spot metering on (which I use most of the time). I asked these lovely ladies to stand for me while I tried out an automatic flash with spot metering and center-weighted metering.
Despite the squirelly face that Charmian is pulling in the center-weighted photo, the flash is much better: their faces are illuminated much more evenly, which is apparently the nature of the iTTL flash mode.
The 12th of February is our wedding anniversary. Dave and I went out for dinner and this was the view from our table.
It was lovely 🙂
Oh, and The Coathanger is a nickname for the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
There are so many bunnies in Artarmon (as I’ve mentioned before)! I called this one Peter, because I thought he looked a bit like Beatrix Potter’s creation.
I love the depth of field and bokeh in this photo!
I went for a walk to some of my favourite local places this day. These flowers (if that’s what you’d call them) are in my favourite park in Artarmon, where I like to swing on the play equipment.
This was at Abbotsleigh School for Girls in Wahroonga. Every year we attend a series of 3 lectures given by Archbishop Peter Jensen at the school.
I forgot my dSLR, but the iPhone camera comes in handy— I used the Camera+ app for this photo.
There’s a walking path from Artarmon to Middle Harbour, which starts from a railway underpass in Artarmon. There’s always been paintings on the walls of the underpass, but they were recently updated— including this stylised map of the walk.
I continued to try to capture the lorikeets flying. I learned a bit from seeing how fast they were… I nearly froze this one, not perfectly, but I quite like it anyway.
I wanted to figure out the difference between the flash modes. Front-curtain sync is the usual flash mode; slow sync is front-curtain sync + slow shutter speeds to capture the subject and the background; rear-curtain sync fires the flash just before the shutter closes and slow rear-curtain fires the flash at the start and end of the shutter opening.
From memory this one is slow rear-curtain, it flashed the first cards on the table and then the last ones tosed on the pile.
