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I went for a walk about a week ago around Southampton common just before sunset. I didnt want to take a big camera, as the point was to go for a walk and then on to the pub on the common, so I brought my compact DMC-FX33 with me.
It turns out that the camera is pretty good with sunset shots, getting rather nice exposures which surprised me for a camera that is so small and has little manual control. I think I need to start taking it with me to more places and try it out a bit more. The only thing it lacks is some serious zoom, but the 28mm (equiv) wide end is very nice for landscapes
I have decided that I will try to post an interesting photo each week, along with details of how I shot it and the difficulties faced. This is both to force me to try and take some photos in a new style, but also to get some feedback from my readers (you) about the styles involved. If you have seen anything done that you think is worth trying to reverse engineer and reproduce then let me know in the comments and I will endeavor to figure it out.
The photo this week is a shot of a bottle of washing up liquid, focusing on the macro detail of little bubbles formed by giving it a good shake. I actually have three photos, taken slightly differently as i liked all of them.
All photos used a speedlight sat right behind the washing up bottle, with the camera in front with a speedlight set not to fire (only used to trigger the speedlight on the other side). The speedlight was set to ETTL auto, so the camera decided how bright to fire the flash.
The first photo has the flash below the angle of the lens, which shows in the darker bubbles at the top of the photo. The flash actually fired through the label of the bottle, diffusing the flash slightly.
The second photo has the flash lined up directly in line with the camera, and you can see pattern of the flash bulb in the photo.
The final photo has the flash almost in line with the camera, but diffused through the label to give an even lighting. You can see some of the text from the label in the photo.
I have entered some of my photos into the moo.com holiday cards competition.
For every pack of cards sold, they are donating 1$ to the Médecins Sans Frontières charity.
I chose the following photos to enter, if you want a card of it then just click on the photo and there is a link below.
(I make no money from you buying cards, but the charity Médecins Sans Frontières does)
I am moving my photos into Flickr (at quite a slow pace to be honest) and as I pay per GB for my hosting here, I figured I could finally remove my photos from this site and just link to the ones on flickr… however this is not as easy as it sounds as I have quite a few of them linked into posts here. There is no easy way to migrate these, you can’t automate it because flickr doesn’t seem to track the original filename of photos, and doing it by hand is tedious to say the least.
I am not sure if it is worth the effort, and maybe I should just put a comment in each of the posts with photos to say thay are on flickr and youll have to find them yourself?
Hopefully flickr will be the last time I have to move photos - even if I decide on something better to hots my photos on, there is no need to delete them from flickr
