Going backwards

Hi All…some of you may have seen/heard me complaining about how sore I was after covering the Burnie 10…I think I have just about recovered…hahahahaha.

Sitting backwards on a motorbike, holding a camera (or two) is pretty uncomfortable. You don’t realise how bumpy the highway is until you feel every single rise and depression through your nether regions!

Enough of my whinging…here are a couple of shots from the event.

I regularly talk about the importance of ‘seeing’ the light. The following pic is a case in point. I was sitting eating breakfast when I turned and looked out the dining room window and was blown away by the intensity of colour of the clivia flower. The clivias are always there, but at this precise time a shaft of light was coming through the overhead camelia tree and striking one of the flowers…setting it ablaze. Obviously, breakfast was abandoned temporarily so I could get the shot. The conditions that created the possibility of the image may never happen again.

Special attention was needed with the exposure to take account of the huge range in light intensity between the flower and surrounding shadow. I doubt any auto setting would have given the desired result.

Fujifilm X-T3 23mm 1/60 f4 iso 160

Something else I have been working on since we last caught up is a bit of an experimental project. Experimental for me as this kind of thing is a definite no-no when working in a newspaper environment. The editorial integrity of an image is paramount.

A client has a 1966 Valiant Regal that he has restored…and wanted photographed. After much research, we couldn’t find a location that he was totally happy with. So I suggested a composite image. This was something I hadn’t attempted before…but was confident I could get it done. I (and the client) am pretty happy with the end result.

Talk soon.