Rainbow

Camera: E-1
Program: Manual
ISO: 200
Aperture: f11.0
Shutter: 1/500
Focal length: 50mm (100mm equiv.)


I ran the adjustment brush in Lightroom over the rainbow to increase the saturation but now it looks a little dodgy. Didn't really need to either as it was already wonderfully vibrant. The E-1 produces the best colour with it's Kodak sensor. I <3 my E-1!

Before & After

Camera: E-3
ISO: 200
Program: Aperture priority (exposure bias -0.3)
Aperture: f8.0
Shutter: 1/500
Focal length: 12mm


Today's photo is an edit on a very boring photo - just played with it in Lightroom till it was dramatically different :D
Here is the sooc image:

Brighton Beach Huts

Camera: E-1
ISO: 100
Program: Aperture priority (exposure bias -0.3)
Aperture: f16
Shutter: 1/250
Focal length: 17mm


This looks strangely fake and I did do a bit of adjusting and editing in Lightroom but the original doesn't look much different to this! I was there at a hard time of day to shoot - the sun was low in the sky on a cloudless day which resulted in full sun coming in directly on those huts. But this resulted in being able to get good exposure for both the huts and the vibrant blue sky :)
There were very harsh shadows in the sand so I upped the fill light, and also increased the clarity and the vibrance. Also I cloned out some annoying bushes above the first hut on the right, and to the side of the far hut.
I love it! So bright and vibrant and almost surreal!

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.

Puddy Tat

Camera: E-3
ISO: 100
Program: Aperture priority
Aperture: f4.0
Shutter: 1/640
Focal length: 60mm

Used an antique preset in Lightroom.

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.

Sisters

Camera: E-1
ISO: 400
Program: Aperture priority
Aperture: f3.5
Shutter: 1/250


Gave this a slight crop and straighten and used a preset (free download) called 'fancy snapshot' in Lightroom. Since using Lightroom I now like to edit every photo! I've probably gone a bit over the top - sometime you don't know if you've made things better or worse. Sometimes there's not a whole heap of difference.
Here is the sooc version of today's photo so you can see. Lacks a bit of contrast and "pop" I guess. Although it did look better before I uploaded here.

Eerie Flood Water

Camera: E-1
Program: Manual
ISO: 100
Aperture: f3.5
Shutter: 15 seconds
Focal length: 22mm


Gave this a cool tint and changed the light temperature in Lightroom. But this is pretty much how it looked sooc.
I had almost forgotten today's photo. I just happened to have the camera in the car when I was on my way home in the evening. I was almost home when I saw looked out the window and saw this scene then realised I hadn't taken a today's photo yet so I pulled over. Unfotunately I failed to capture what my eyes saw. Turned out spaz but it's all I have for today!

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.

Camera: 1050SW (p&s)
Program: Auto (plus underwater preset)
ISO: 80
Aperture: f4.5
Shutter: 1/640
Focal length: 6.7mm
No flash


Sooc (straight out of camera)
I thought this was cute. Just loving these underwater shots. They aren't easy though! I like this so much I'll probably take it over to Lightroom to enhance it.

Camera: E-3 (Dad's camera)
Program: Aperture priority
ISO: 800
Aperture: f4.0
Shutter: 1/30 (I must have a steadier hand than I thought)
Focal length: 35mm
No flash


Converted to black and white in Lightroom - it's quite shadowy and contrasty for a baby shot but I like it :)

My sister-in-law has these beautiful photos on her wall of her babies holding their toes like this and I wanted to copy! My first two never held their toes so when she started doing it I grabbed the camera quick smart :D The flash wasn't charged however and it was a very dark and rainy day so I had to crank up the ISO and even then the shutter speed was very slow. So not very sharp.

Camera: E-1
Program: Manual
ISO: 100
Aperture: f22
Shutter: 8 seconds
Focal length: 14mm
No flash



Just having a play with long exposures at dusk with this one. Upped the exposure of the house in Lightroom and added a graduated filter to decrease exposure of the sky.
Also boosted the greens as they were looking a bit sad and sorry.
Used tripod and shutter release cable obviously :D

Camera: E-1
Program: Aperture priority
ISO: 200
Aperture: f3.4
Shutter: 1/20 (...I know... see below pic for explanation)
Focal length: 47mm
Bounce flash


Newborn photo shoot today. I had sooooo many favourites so hard to pick which should be my photo for today but I do like this one.
I love the DOF, love the contrast. Love the tattoos and the baby... love the juxtaposition.
Converted to black and white in Lightroom and made the blacks 'blacker' to get a good contrast without blowing out the lighter elements.
Used an external flash bounced off the ceiling, and I am having major problems with shutter speed with flash attached. I'm getting a really slow shutter speed which means although it's not toooo bad because the flash is 'freezing' the capture, the images aren't as sharp as they should be. Hrmph.

Camera: E-1
Program: Aperture priority
ISO: 100
Aperture: f3.2
Shutter: 1/640
Focal length: 35mm



Popped out some blue in the sky in Lightroom.
This is my beautiful friend and her son - I had the pleasure of photographing her son's naming day ceremony today.
I love this shot of them, it's so vibrant and I just love her expression.