Love the portraits @Niall97
I know a few people that would have loved to do that shoot
Cheers. It was a great experience as a big Smiths fan as you can imagine. We went for a coffee afterwards and talked about The Smiths so that was really interesting to hear from an insider
That's so f**king cool. I'm a big Smiths fan too, so very jealous geez!
What was the shoot for Niall?
My first shot at a Brenizer / Bokeh Panorama, hard to appreciate at this size but it looks amazing up close. 50 merged photos at 135mm 1.8 with the focus locked on the bike and nothing else, this ends up equivalent to a 43mm f0.5.
Zeiss 135 Panorama by Harry_S, on Flickr
Zeiss 135 Panorama v2 by Harry_S, on Flickr
When the sun goes down.
It’s a very interesting technique, easy to do or?
Nothing too taxing, just need to make sure everything is set manually (shutter speed, aperture, WB, ISO etc), manually focus on the subject and shoot that, then fire away around the subject (a spiral is the easiest way to keep track of where you are) leaving all settings and focus exactly as they were. This one is 50 shots and probably took less than 30 seconds to shoot. The main thing is to shoot wide open at the longest focal length you can to get the full effect.
It works best when you have foreground and background interest. The fun bit was processing it, Microsoft ICE is apparently best but I'm on a Mac so tried all sorts, some just didn't cope at all but PS Elements 11 managed this one ok.
Nipped to the local airshow. Red 3 was missing due to his wife being in labour - Here's the adopted formation to replace the traditional Diamond.
Missing Red 3 by A_Cro, on Flickr
Best place in the worldAnother sunset from me.
Not sure why but my photo stream has gone crazy lately, averaging 30k views per day and added about 70 followers since Friday.
Great shot, Aaron.
Looks like a very pleasant journey to work!
True that.Cheers Ben, It was lovely today. Summer seems to be back.... For now!
Best sunset spot ever, the place has such a surreal feeling about it. I need to go back!
I'm out there almost on a weekly basis