A Picture a day (My 365) . . . Made it to the End!

For fill just use TTL and dial in some -VE compensation, start at -0.7EV.
If it's dark inside, point it at the ceiling.
For off camera google strobist.
 
Thanks, that's kind of thing I've started on, although using fill in flash in a dark room is not the greatest test, without using a tripod :)

Will have more of a play tomorrow
 
I used fill flash quite extensively yesterday. As long as you remember to have the zoom factor set, don't get closer than the minimum shown on the flash, expose for the brightest part of the sky or whatever is the background, have the flash on TTL or TTL BL in my case and have some negative comp dialled in for the arty look, you will be GRAND I TELL THEE!! :)
 
Thanks JD, have been having a little play today, only thing is my 430EX II does not show minimum distance, but other than that I've been doing much of what you say, see below....
 
13th June: Mountain of Knowledge (do you get it ???)

Boring bit: First shot taken using my new Canon speedlite flash. Placed the National Geographic's in my light tent with the top flap open, with the flash in the hot shoe, pointed it towards the ceiling to bounce the light back down on top of the magazines. The effect is far more natural than without using the flash but with a longer exposure.

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14th June: King Alfred The Great

This is the famous King Alfred bronze statue in Winchester, 2.5 half times life size it weighs 5 tons and stands over 40ft tall atop it's Cornish granite base. With the polariser on it made for a nice colour shot against the blue sky, but applied cross processing effect and played around with channel mixer for mono conversion, finally used Noiseware (which absolutely rocks), which in my view made a far more striking result.

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Thanks JD

No flash, should have tried it though, but I did experiment with lightening the dark areas, but the dark areas seem to give the shot more impact.

PS. I used the flash on yesterday's ;)
 
Hehe thanks. It's amazing given the simple setup yesterday who much the flash improved the shot. Normally I would just have a long exposure, but now that looks gastly compared to the approach of using bounce flash, love it :)
 
Although I need to make yet aother purchase, need the cable to allow off camera usage.
 
Very funny :D

wouldn't swap my camera for any other, I do keep telling myself I will be done spending money on it soon :nuts:
 
15th June: The Margaret Hill LNG Tanker

The Margaret Hill has become a permanent fixture at Southampton docks. She arrived towards the end of last year and has been here ever since, undergoing some sort of conversion. She is getting on a bit now, built in 1974 has been renamed a few times (5 or 6 I think), her last name being Hoegh Galleon (still partly visible under her current name on the bow).

I found a couple of new places to take shots opposite the Container terminal, so I'm happy, as that means more great ship shots in the future.

This is a 3 shot HDR image, was borderline taking multiple exposures as it was fairly windy and it's made merging the the 3 images very tricky in trying to align them best I can.

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Thanks JD, this was the hardest HDR 3 shot image I've yet processed, due to the wind, each image was slightly out, so I pushed Photomatix every which way to get it as good as I could. That then left some strange looking clouds (as they had obviously moved between shots), so in PS I use the clone tool to take the horrid double edges off them, phew :)

As you can tell I don't do small boats :)
 
No way!
That looks cgi, fantastic, bet you're pleased with that!
 
Thanks :)

Actually it did not come out quite as I wanted, I could not make the oil do what I wanted and was constatntly moving, but happy enough for a first attempt ;)
 
Thanks JD, yeah it's been a while, have to say I found it really frustrating, strange the things that look easy often appear to be the most annoying and complicated, or maybe it's just me :shrug:
 
17th June: Up close Ocelot

Ok, I didn't get the framing quite right (chopped his ear), but this is taken through some very grubby glass,whilst trying to avoid reflection and at ISO 3200. Then had to clone out little bit's of wood chippings from his nose and fur in Photoshop. so happy enough with how it turned out :)

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I think that works exceptionally well Julian!! It's almost like it's sitting right in front of me. :clap:

Yet again the detail is incredible, for shooting through glass at 3200?? Definitely quite an amazing camera them there 5d's. :thumbs:
 
Just caught up on 4 months worth of images, some lovely shots in there, congratulations:thumbs:
 
Oil and water shot is superb - might have a go at that this weekend ;)

And nice processing and detail in the Ocelot shot :thumbs:
 
Just caught up on 4 months worth of images, some lovely shots in there, congratulations
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Thanks for looking fletch :)

Oil and water shot is superb - might have a go at that this weekend

And nice processing and detail in the Ocelot shot
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Thanks Chris, I spent ages on the oil and water shot, good luck with yours ;)
 
18th June: After nearly 9 years, today was my last day at Dell. Nothing special, just a quick grab shot with the compact camera

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