Photograph of the Week #0032

"When not scribbling away in a sketch book or dabbling on a Wacom tablet i'm invariably fiddling around with exposure settings on my Nikon D90 trying to capture moments in aesthetically pleasing ways.
So here we have "Photograph of the week" a (mostly) weekly feature showcasing my favourite photo of the week."

Another spider shot from my garden. It's not in focus because there was a slight breeze and my son kept threatening to jump in the pond but I just like the colours and shapes in the image. Admittedly a better photograph would've had the spider in focus but still.

Photograph of the Week #0031

 "When not scribbling away in a sketch book or dabbling on a Wacom tablet i'm invariably fiddling around with exposure settings on my Nikon D90 trying to capture moments in aesthetically pleasing ways.
So here we have "Photograph of the week" a (mostly) weekly feature showcasing my favourite photo of the week."

During my past attempts at photographing stars i've had various stabs at "shooting-the-moon" which i've repeatedly failed at. I looked up some tips that advised shooting the moon as if it's broad daylight, an object lit directly by the sun, as it is, so just take a manual shot with that in mind.
I'm happy with the results, finally I got a shot where you can make out the details in the moons surface.

It really does take quite small things to cheer me up.

Photograph of the Week #0030

This week something a little special happened. I wen't ahead and got married. I couldn't be happier, she's a beautiful, wonderful woman that has shared the joy of parenting an amazing, awesome little boy with me for the past two years.

Because of this my photography and work has slacked because we've been so busy sorting things out and then on the honeymoon etc. Hence why a slight lack of updates lately. Additionally my oppurtunity to shoot anything of the past few days has been slim, however I did manage to get a few totally arbitrary photographs of random stuff and to make up for the lack of updates here are three shots from on the cruise-ship we honeymooned on.

Mupe Bay: Part 3 The return to Mupe

This weekend I had yet another trip to Mupe Bay. This time accompanied by a couple of friends and this time after having done some research.

Sun rise was apparently at 5:55am, giving the distance to Lulworth Bay by car and how far it is necessary to walk we got up at 4:30am to make sure we got there in time.

We got there at the very second of sun rise.

Photograph of the Week #0029

"When not scribbling away in a sketch book or dabbling on a Wacom tablet i'm invariably fiddling around with exposure settings on my Nikon D90 trying to capture moments in aesthetically pleasing ways.
So here we have "Photograph of the week" a (mostly) weekly feature showcasing my favourite photo of the week."

Photograph of the Week #0028

"When not scribbling away in a sketch book or dabbling on a Wacom tablet i'm invariably fiddling around with exposure settings on my Nikon D90 trying to capture moments in aesthetically pleasing ways.
So here we have "Photograph of the week" a (mostly) weekly feature showcasing my favourite photo of the week."

Following the last photograph of a spider here is a photograph of a wasp in my gardens apple tree. There were dozens of them buzzing about and distracting my little boy who spent ages staring at them and pointing, laughing his head off so I had to try photographing them.

From the photographs I have been taking lately I can safely say I'm happy with the Tamron 90mm lens, it certainly seems to do everything I was hoping it would do.

Photograph of the Week #0027

"When not scribbling away in a sketch book or dabbling on a Wacom tablet i'm invariably fiddling around with exposure settings on my Nikon D90 trying to capture moments in aesthetically pleasing ways.
So here we have "Photograph of the week" a (mostly) weekly feature showcasing my favourite photo of the week."

This week I got a new Tamron 90mm prime lens.
To put it through it's paces I ran it around my garden a few dozen times to try and pick out macro details and take various other interesting shots.

This is another spider shot, I just happened to spot him as he came scuttling down the wall next to me, he really was very tiny but thankfully this lens is far better built for the job of capturing him than any of my other lenses. It was pretty difficult distinguishing him from his very-similarly-coloured background but I think it makes for an interesting shot despite the clearly blown-highlights.

I could have done with a reflector, in hindsight, to soften the otherwise hard shadow that obscures half of the spider.
I always find it interesting to see the amount of detail there is in such small creatures that are so easily overlooked, It's nice that I'm finally able to capture that to some degree.