Dateline: June 4th 2020
When I drive I keep the camera beside me, usually with a medium range zoom lens fitted. When I stop at traffic lights I wind down the window and look around me. If something interesting is happening, I shoot it. So this was the scene today at the bottom of the Limestone Road.
I liked the symmetry of the men’s postures.
Removing the colour made the image less fussy and distracting.
Dateline: June 2nd 2020
Janette and me went for a socially distanced walk around the Duckpond at Newtownards earlier this evening. (Kiltonga Nature Reserve). Lots of interesting birds around this evening!
Dateline: June 1st 2020
Back in the garden again today, in glorious weather, and these little purple flowers have sprung up. (I confess that I am useless at ‘Horticultural Recognition’)
Fujifilm X-T2, with 300mm MF Nikon Macro lens. F=300mm (Macro) f/11 @ 1/550th sec on ISO1600.
Dateline: May 31st 2020
So, anyway, after I’d had a word or two with Angus, the black bull, he invited me to come up the field to meet his missus. (One of them). Perhaps he thought we humans need some herd immunity… I declined, and said I would catch her with the telephoto lens instead. I think he was disappointed, for he let out a mighty bellow.
Fujifilm X-T30 F=200mm, f/4.8 @ 1/125th sec on ISO800
I get really bored in Lockdown.
Dateline: May 31st 2020
Tonight’s socially isolated single permitted exercise walk took me up the Tullygarvan Road, where I was privileged to meet young Angus here. He was having a cool refreshing drink of water when I arrived at his home, but he happily took a few minutes out of his busy schedule to pose for the camera – with a long lens!
Fujifilm X-T30, F=70mm, f/4 @ 1/125th sec on ISO800.
Dateline: May 30th 2020
Janette brought these freshly-dug new Comber potatoes home today. This morning they were in the ground. Tomorrow, they will be boiled, (Over here, we don’t peel these potatoes, we just scrub them and boil them in their skins – when ready the skins will almost fall off them) salted and served with lashing of butter. The Comber potato is a waxy, flavoursome food, and a protected brand.
I photographed them in the Studio-Pod, under two Elinchrom D-Lites, with the Fujifilm X-T2, and Nikkor 50mm MF lens, against a green chromakey background. F=50mm, f/5.6 @ 1/125th sec on ISO400.
Dateline: May 29th 2020
Socially distanced at the Loughshore Park, Antrim.
Dateline: May 28th 2020
In the Pod today, playing with a small green screen set-up, to see how the light works best. I’ve set a small Coalport Lady Figurine on a table, with a green-screen background. There’s a D-Lite just behind my right shoulder and natural light coming from the left of the figure. The D-Lite is set low, not to be a key-light, but to simply reduce any shadow cast by the Coalport figure.
I’m using the Fujifilm X-T2, with a Nikon 50mm manual focus lens and the camera set for focus peaking. F=50mm, f/5.6 @ 1/60th sec on ISO200.
Here’s the result:
Here’s the set-up: Continue reading The Lockdown Logs #56
Dateline: May 26th 2020
Finally got some rails fitted in the new Studio-Pod, so I hung a black backdrop and did my first experimental head-shot – my glamorous assistant (and wife) Janette!
Dateline: May 24th 2020
A beautiful day for social distancing, especially if you can do it on a beach!
Fujifilm X-T30, F=40mm, f/9 @ 1/125th sec on ISO250, Classic Chrome film simulation.
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