Águas de Março

This is my little obsession. I have fallen completely for Elis Regina through this song and video. Tom Jobim's lyrics are surreal and beautiful. A subtitled version is on youtube.

Elis ... *sigh*

Reading room, Shot tower

Reading room 1

Reading room 2

Shot tower

My photography tutor, Max Oettli, asked me to bring some images along to a talk with the theme of 'perspective'. These were shot during a trip to Melbourne in 2008. The La Trobe Reading room is an incredible space in the State Library of Victoria, definitely worth visiting if you are in the city. These two composite shots show very different ways that the software found to stitch the images together. The shot tower, now a domed shopping mall/cineplex was built to produce shot by dropping molten lead from a such a height that it would solidify by the time it reached the bottom.

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Corrective perspective

Centre for Innovation 1

Centre for innovation 2

When photographing architecture I always try to straighten the verticals but with this building it all seems to have gone horribly wrong.

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Son of a beach

Axle and friends at the beach

Axle is a good chum of mine. He's a great enthusiast and a superlative sportsman. I'm always cheered when in his company although he does tend toward melancholy when action is absent.

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Solargraphs

Results are in from my solargraph experiment.

Here are two shots made using pinhole cameras with an exposure setting of four months!

Mihiwaka Solagraph

The sun trails indicate how clear the weather was between when the camera was set, winter solstice, and when it was taken down, 26 September. You can see how shady it is at our house at mid winter by the ridgeline of the hill obscuring the sun.

Careys Bay solargraph

I scanned this one in colour. Shot from my father's house in Carey's Bay looking north towards Aramoana. I was interested to see how it not only recorded which days were clear or cloudy but also which days the harbour was calm enough to reflect the sun.

Same time period as Mihiwaka solargraph.

The idea for these solargrams came from this website I came across a few months ago

http://www.pinholephotography.org/

This chap, Justin Quinnell, is doing some bizarre things with light and is really funny to read as well. I like his approach to things.

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Moonlit Mole

This shot is looking north along the length of the Mole. The green line is the Starboard navigation light of the pilot boat as it heads back into the harbour.

Here is a shot from another night at the Mole, entrance to Otago Harbour. Definitly not as rough as below though still lumpy enough to swing those lights around. Thats the pilot boat ducking in bottom right.

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Cutting up rough

The ship crosses the end of the Mole.

That is a lot of movement on the part of the ship & pilot boat, the sea really is cutting up rough through the channel.

Looking at the ship in the dark it's pretty hard to see how much it is being tossed around by the swell. Long exposure leaves a good trail of evidence though.

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Log ship East Ambition heads out to sea from the entrance of Otago Harbour followed by the Pilot boat. It had been blowing a strong easterly for 24 hours and there was a very steep sea to get through to exit the harbour. Other lights are the Otago Peninsular lighthouse and a starboard harbour beacon.

30" exposure and still quite windy hence the wobble in the light trails due to camera shake.

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REPURPOSED!

Mother and daughter

Cafe

Red Girl

All right, I'm taking over this blog. It was mine already but I hardly used it, now I have a new purpose.

This is now the interwebs workbook for my GradDip Photography course at the School of Art, Otago Polytechnic. I will drop in here various stuff I come across as I research and develop my course work. It's also a nice to have a skite site to show off new and interesting photography by me.

The above simulated tilt shift image, shot in New Edinburgh Way, is part of a set I'm doing to 'get my hand in' with tilt/shift. This is leading up to an exhibition in October as part of my course which will include some tilt/shift technique.

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