Pet Photography

If you own a pet and you like photography, your pet has probably been your first portrait model. Seeing as most animals like dogs or cats only live for 8 to 15 years depending on the breed, its natural to want to capture your family pet in a way you will always cherish. Trouble is pets are not that easy to get to sit still for an extended amount of time, so you need to be patient and have the camera ready for that candid shot. Here are some I've taken over the last year or so . . .

Nikon D300, Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-f5.6 @ ISO 200, 18mm, f3.5, 1/25

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Nikon D300, Nikkor 105mm Macro f2.8 @ ISO 200, 105mm f8, 1/500 sec

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Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 200, 35mm f2, 1/20 sec

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Nikon D300, Nikkor 105mm Macro f2.8 @ ISO 200, 105mm f8, 1/640 sec

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Nikon D300, Nikkor 105mm Macro f2.8 @ ISO 200, 105mm f4, 1/30 sec

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Black & White Project

Black & white images inspired the original term "photography" and was coined in 1839 by Sir John Herschel and is based on the Greek phos "light" and graphê "representation by means of lines" or "drawing", together meaning "drawing with light". Black & white photos seem to survive time maybe because black & white has an inherent dignity which is both the simplest, and the most sophisticated of the photographic disciplines. So this inspired my Black & White project and I chose city architecture as a good subject that offers pattern, contrast and in the morning light, you get lots of shadows in the deep city building canyons. So here they are below . . .

Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 400, f5, 1/2500 sec

Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 400, f5, 1/2500 sec

Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 400, f5, 1/3200 sec

Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 400, f5, 1/1600 sec

Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 400, f5, 1/1000 sec

Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 200, f3.2, 1/1250 sec

Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 200, f2, 1/320 sec

Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 200, f2, 1/40 sec

Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 200, f2, 1/250 sec

Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 400, f5, 1/250 sec

Cold Morning Photo Expedition

City lights in the early morning from Yurulbin Point in Birchgrove.

Birchgrove is a suburb in the inner west of Sydney, just 5 kilometres from the Sydney CBD on the Balmain peninsula, overlooking Sydney Harbour.

I had left home early to try to get a sunrise behind the Sydney Harbour Bridge there, but the sky was cloudy and washed out, so I went to Sydney's Luna Park to see if there were any image possibilities there.

Luna Park was open but deserted at 7:00 am on a cold Saturday morning.

Some colour isolation experiments.

Abstract Photography

Some images lend themselves to be converted into black and white, most notably portraits and pets I think but, the effective use of isolated colour in monochrome images can be very eye catching and portray important information and emotions.

A minimalist approach seems to work best and although I've tried this with a number of images it never really worked until I was inspired by another photographers image of a dog I saw on one of the photographers blogs I read, I can't remember who? So while this technique is not new or especially clever I think it works for this one of Hermione.