Kirkcaldy Rock Club 05/02/2011 Part 1

The first couple of sets of photos from Sat nights gig have now been retouched and here’s a little selection of them for you.

First up is Evil Blood



Last Band of the night was The Fade

Photos from Maya29's Set have still to be retouched but should hopefully be done within a day or so. Stay tuned for part 2

Tonights Shoot

Hello again, 2^nd post of the night.

Now that I have the flower shot squared away in the previous post I wanted to let you know what I’ve been up to tonight.

I took the camera to go and visit Kirkcaldy Rock Club night at The Path Tavern. 4 Bands playing a mix of different styles. The photos are importing and backing up just now so don’t know how many good shots I have yet but expecting at least a couple.

The groups playing were Bare Bones, Evil Blood, Maya29 and The Fade. I Can totally recommend Evil Blood was pretty impressed- thrash metal type stuff, this was the band’s first Gig with the current line up and they played it really well, Hopefully even better things to come.

Kirkcaldy Rock Club

Floral Macros

Hello again folks.

I had intended to do this post earlier on in the week but have been a tad too busy. Hopefully should be doing a couple of posts over next couple of days though.

So on Wednesday it was my intention to get out and about and shoot some landscape shots however Wednesday morning brought rain and lots of it. As my camera isn’t weather sealed and I had no intentions of spending the day getting drenched instead I popped out to the local florist to buy some flowers.

I also had some slightly deceased flowers around the house which I had purchased for my wife a week or so ago and thought they might make an interesting subject.

Turns out I was right, I actually really like this shot.

I’m hoping to continue this series shooting more dead flower probable next week when the fresh one I got for this shoot have dried up a bit, I think that photos of dead flower are probably not so common and should hopefully be quite eye catching. It will be interesting to see how to colours turn.

Light Paintings

Coming up now some light painting abstracts. These were taken on a cold Tuesday night, my intention had been to head out and photograph some interesting car light trail pictures but I decided it was to cold so I decided to some similar long exposure shots but in a much more abstract way.

These were all taken at f22 on Bulb using a remote shutter release and various different colours of lights.

Ink in water abstracts

A simple @home project that didn’t go as well as I had hoped mainly due to lack of a close enough focusing lens. 

Used food colours rather than ink but idea is the same. A nice large square vase fill with water lens against the glass start shooting rapid frame and drop some ink or dye or whatever in and capture the results.

Set up - Useing a sheet to diffuse the window light and a mirror at other side to bounce back some light.

The problems came from the fact I don’t have a lens with a close enough focus distance so I couldn’t have the lens against the glass. Also I was trying to over expose the image in camera to give a really white background which didn’t help the sharpness. Don’t know why I didn’t crank the ISO up a bit and then I could have gone with a smaller aperture and hopefully sharper images. I think I will be trying this one again and see if I can get better results.

Two sequential drops

A big squirt of red followed by some blue

Some nice lines shame about the sharpness

A Really nice pouring look again shame about the sharpness

The First Post

What’s it all about?

Well strangely enough it’s mainly about photography. I'm starting to really take my photography seriously recently and I wanted somewhere where I can share my ideas and my picture. I'd also love to receive critique and ideas and suggestions from any readers who decide to follow the blog. If you have any great pictures you want to share I’d love to see them too.

It’s fairly late here at the moment so I’m going to leave it at that for now at least so far as the typing goes but as it is a photography blog I suppose I had better include at least one photo.

If you would like to see more of my photos have a look here