Grumpy Old Dawg

Camera: E-1
Program: Manual
ISO: 800
Aperture: f4.0
Shutter: 1/200
Focal length: 101mm (202mm equiv.)

It's fire weather

Camera: E-3
ISO: 800
Program: Manual
Aperture: f5.6
Shutter: 1/15
Focal length: 33mm (66mm equiv.)

First riding lesson - and she's trotting!

Camera: E-1
ISO: 800
Program: Manual
Aperture: f5.6
Shutter: 1/250
Focal length: 76mm

Glass Squares

Camera: E-3
ISO: 800 (It was up that high as the rest of what I was shooting was obviously the subjects inside the church!)
Program: Aperture priority
Aperture: f5.6
Shutter: 1/8000
Focal length: 48mm

Anzac Day at the Gaol

Camera: E-3
ISO: 3200
Program: Manual
Aperture: f3.5
Shutter: 1/2 (hand held)
Focal length: 14mm


Watching Gallipoli under the stars at the historic Maitland Gaol.

Sandart

Camera: E-3
ISO: 800
Program: Aperture priority (exposure bias -1.0)
Aperture: f5.6
Shutter: 1/50
Focal length: 24mm
Bounce flash


Playing with crafty birthday pressies already.

This is what graffiti looks like in the public toilets of a town full of hippies

Camera: E-3
ISO: 1250
Program: Aperture priority
Aperture: f3.4
Shutter: 1/50
Focal length: 23mm

ANZAC

Camera: E-3
ISO: 2000
Program: Aperture priority (exposure bias -0.3)
Aperture: f4.0
Shutter: 1/50
Focal length: 60mm


My grandfather's funeral. He wanted a bagpiper there because he was loyal to his Scottish heritage. The flag over the coffin in the background has a pretty special and unique story.
My grandfather was a Prisoner-of-War (POW) in Saigon for four years during WW2. He and his fellow POWs were tortured to the point of near-death (and past for many). My grandfather and 67 other Australian soldiers were alive when the war was over. To celebrate the victory they made an Australian flag. The red and white sections of the flag were cut from the flag of their captors, the Japanese. The blue section was from a mosquito net in the prison camp.
All 68 soldiers signed the flag with their names, battalion, and service numbers. My grandfather was the youngest of the group so they entrusted the flag to him for safekeeping. And that he did, from 1945 until his death on April 13th, 2009 - two weeks before his 88th birthday.
From the 68 soldiers who put their names to that flag, he was the second last alive. Now only one of those soldiers remain.
A very special and unique piece of ANZAC history.

W is for Watermelon

Camera: E-1
ISO: 800 (whoops - left high from the day before!)
Program: Aperture priority (exposure bias +0.3)
Aperture: f3.5
Shutter: 1/2500
Focal length: 200mm

Wyndham Estate

Camera: E-1
ISO: 1600
Program: Aperture priority
Aperture: f3.3
Shutter: 1/60
Focal length: 43mm

New Haircut

Camera: 1050SW
ISO: 1600
Program: Auto (exposure bias -0.3)
Aperture: f3.5
Shutter: 1/20
Focal length: fixed


Just showing off my new haircut. Not that you can really see it! I converted this to sepia... I usually hate sepia but thought I'd try it. Lots of noise at ISO 1600.

ISO 3200

Camera: E-1
ISO: 3200
Program: Manual
Aperture: f3.4
Shutter: 1/200
Focal length: 158mm

We were outside at dusk and I realised I hadn't taken today's photo - to take the opportunity to explore the noise level the E-1 produces at ISO 3200.
I deliberately underexposed the shot in camera, and then brought the exposure back up around 1.5 stops in Lightroom to accentuate the grain/digital noise. The compression here means it is not so obvious but viewing the full-size version the noise is quite bad!
To see it better, here is a 1:2 crop of the image. The first shows the digital noise/grain out of the camera. The second shows the same image with basic noise reduction applied in Adobe Lightroom.

Vintage Flower

Camera: E-3
ISO: 1000 (playing with the camera to see how far I can push the ISO up)
Program: Aperture priority
Aperture: f3.8
Shutter: 1/1250
Focal length: 37mm


Decreased the vibrance and saturation for a vintage look.

Flying Baby

Camera: E-3
ISO: 800
Program: Aperture priority (I needed to change it to shutter or manual, but couldn't work out how - not my camera)
Aperture: f3.4
Shutter: 1/500
Focal length: 38mm


Used a Lightroom preset I downloaded called "Matt's Edgy Surreal". It's weird! I wonder what sort of image it would suit... not sure.

Dodgems!

Camera: E-1
ISO: 800
Program: Manual (finding myself going fully manual more and more lately, can only be a good thing)
Aperture: f3.2
Shutter: 1/125
Focal length: 92mm
No flash


Grainy as hell but I love it.

View from Verandah

Camera: E-1
Program: Manual
ISO: 800 (whoops - didn't need it that high, I'd accidentally left it on from the night before, no wonder I had to keep increasing the SS!)
Aperture: f8.0
Shutter: 1/500
Focal length: 54mm


Used a preset in Lightroom that funked up the colours a bit then desaturated the yellow slightly (was a bit TOO yellow!)

The only shot I took today, and only because I had to :D
Looking out over the back verandah at my place at 6pm. We've had a ton of rain over the past few days so everything is flooded.

On a completely unrelated note, my little sis just called from Melbourne - she's getting married! Her husband=to-be gave her the perfect proposal :)

Camera: E-1
Program: Aperture priority
ISO: 800 (whoops, left high from earlier that evening)
Aperture: f4.0
Shutter: 1/50
Focal length: 23mm
Bounce flash


A self-portrait :D
Chocolatey black and white conversion in Lightroom.