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Tongariro Crossing
A couple of weeks ago I completed the Tongariro crossing.
Here is a few of the images I took, these are all HDR shots which I am having a play with lately:
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Lightpainting
I saw this a while ago on flickr, thought I would give it a whirl.
For a twist on the traditional using an actual light/led thingy, I hung my phone which was playing a movie so there would be variation in the colours as it swept around.
Central Plateau trip
I came back yesterday from a trip down to Tongariro National Park camping and taking photos. The region is very diverse from lush forests to arid semi-deserts. My personal favourite was the rugged alpine areas on the flanks of Mt Ruapehu.
The image above is a full 360 degree panorama of from the Turoa face of Ruapehu. It will be more familiar to most covered in snow.
This waterfall was at the base of Ruapehu on the Whakapapa side
The chairlifts were running on the Whakapapa face, but the mountain was covered in cloud which made for an interesting mood.
There was dragonflies everywhere, but they would rarely sit still for long enough to photograph.
One of our campsites we stayed at...
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Kaimanawa Sky
This is one of the photos I took on my trip down to the central plateau. It is a long (30 minute) exposure of the night sky. I personally like how small it makes me feel to think about the earth rotating about in space.
Night, Maraetai
Went out last night to Maraetai to take some long exposures. Unfortunately the clouds were out so I didn't get the starry shots I was hoping for. Also it was so dark I couldn't work out the focus, so this is a bit out. Going camping in the central plateau this or next week, so hopefully the sky will be light pollution free.
Photoshoot with Ludwig
Today I had a photoshoot with Ludwig primarily for the header photo on his soon to be released second revision of the website for WebCreative, his company for freelance web development work. It was also for him to have some nice (hopefully) photos of himself.
I liked how the shoot went, he liked the results...
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HDR photography
After reading Trey Ratcliff's blog I was very keen to do some HDR photos. For those that don't know HDR stands for high dynamic range, meaning that (ideally) every element of the photo is exposed correctly. For an ordinary photograph the camera meters the scene and recommends the best settings for the exposure (automatic and priority modes)...
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High speed photography
This morning I learned about high speed fp (focal plane sync). I had been frustrated at the limits of the shutter meaning that the highest sync speed I could reliably pull off was 1/200 (even though the camera is specified at 1/250 I almost always see that telltale shutter curtain).
Turns out you can make the flash extend its duration so it syncs at high speed (ie up to the maximum)
This got me interested in high speed photography again, by my previous endeavours have simply involved popping the flash manually, hoping to get the shot.
This is of course time consuming, and very random, so I decided today to have a go at doing it right.
This meant that I had to find a way of getting an audio trigger...
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Smash!
I was able to have a tinker with my audio trigger which I constructed yesterday. Here is one of the results:
