The “Golden” Spiral

This one comes to you from the Alanis Morissette “IRONIC” files… I had tagged along on the Scott Kelby Worldwide Photowalk in Auckland and had a fantastic time meeting other photogs… The problem many of us faced was how to capture something unique and interesting on a drab day in an all-too-familiar setting… I took a whole bunch of pretty average shots… train lines, statues, walls, and the like… It wasn’t until I got back to the cafe afterwards that I realised that I had left my camera on ISO 3200 from a little experiment the night before!!! What a dork! Anyways – this was one of the shots I submitted into the competition and blow me down if it didn’t end up winning and going into the INTERNATIONAL competition! I was pretty stoked!!!

It just goes to show, sometimes our stupidist moments can turn into something cool!

ISO 3200 – 1/17s at unknown aperture – comes from using the 1978 50mm f1.4 lens with no chip in it!

The Gecko…

Taken in the Auckland Museum on the D40x with 55-200mm Zoom. ISO Auto picked 900 @ f5.6 and 1/15s.

Processed in Photoshop CS2 with a conversion to LAB and back to RGB to pop the colours a bit… I think I actually have a preset for this now… I cloned out a couple of distractions in the shot as well (a big light blob and a leaf).

no bull (easter 2008)

I thought I would start this photoblog off with a pic that I took back in March over the easter break. I re-discovered it recently and thought it would be a good way to kick off. I am only going to put up one pic each week… so it should be one of my favourite or bestish ones… Hope you find it worthwhile to check out!

Here we go… The first up is a little pic taken in Howick on a walk near Somerville Road. It walks down to the estuary with a view to Whitford and beyond. These cows were just hanging out and I took the picture. I think I cropped it a bit to get the composition, and the result is something I am pleased with. One of the comments on Flickr thought that it looked like I interrupted their conversation… I liked that thought!

NO BULL (Nikon d40x with 55-200mm VR lens @ 55mm; f5.6: 1/400s: ISO 200: -1/3 stop exp comp) I think there was a teeny bit of post-processing in Lightroom – a little crop and vignette.