Tower Bridge

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This is from a trip a couple of months back. I’ve put this through the mill:

Tower Bridge

It’s comprised of 3 images bracketed around F11 and 1.6 seconds [14mm on my ultrawide], which I’ve then and converted to HDR black and white. It’s not a preset, just some experimentation with structure and contrast. I’ve then done a bit of dodging and burning. The original image is shot from the south of the river, and then looking across the bridge from Shad Thames. It’s not an angle that you often see, and I have to admit that it looked a bit odd from a compositional point of view, so I’ve flipped it on the vertical.

I’m getting quite a lot of mileage out of the HDR black and white conversions, something that I keep on coming back to.

Guitar Macro

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Just a daft 10 minute exercise, taking some macro shots of the pride and joy, my 1985 Les Paul Deluxe. I’ve started to use Flickr, basically because a friend pointed me towards it, and also because I’m going to start bumping up against storage limitations with my hosting at some stage. Half a dozen shots here.

I’m going to come back to this as some of the results are quite interesting. The chair in the reflections of some of the metalwork was a bit careless. I also really, really need to dust :).

Fossil Macro

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I was back home in Ireland over the weekend, and thought that a little fossil that I picked up off a beach 30 odd years ago in County Louth would make for an interesting macro shot. These were all taken with my 100mm Macro, an ETTL cable, and a diffuser on my flash.

Fossil

Fossil

I’m guessing these are some sort of segmented worms. Some close ups of what appear to be mouth parts. I’ll stop there before I get too technical :).

Fossil

Fossil

Fossil

Fossil

Fossil

Fossil

I guess the Smithsonian won’t be beating my door down to buy it from me but what the heck. The new cable and diffuser are attempts to get a bit more adept with the flash. Shooting off camera is all well and good, but the camera starts to get heavy very quickly if you are operating without a tripod.