echohelloworld

I bought an ND8 Graduated and it’s awesome. There were kids swimming here, they were a bit special.

Went down to the courts to play some ball today and there was a huge cruise liner there, but obviously I didn’t have my camera on me. By the time I got back to take a photo, it’d gone. This made me sad.

I realised today that it’s like 6 days til my birthday. When I was 10, I’d never have imagined being this blasé about my birthday! I’ve already had my presents, though; 160GB iPod, shorts, a tshirt and House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. I’ve been wanting to read that book for absolutely ages!

So, it turns out that an ND2 Grad and an ND2 isn’t enough for the sort of shot I’m going for. This is at 6ish seconds and f/32; the sky’s too bright and the sea isn’t blurred enough so I guess I’ll have to get some more filters. Great.

It also transpires that if you stay in at the harbour front after dusk, they lock the gates. If you’re on foot, this isn’t a problem but if you’re in a car it’s a pain! Luckily, I was reminded that there is another exit that could be open and it was!

I’m not particularly happy with this shot, but it’s all I’ve got to go on today!

This is slightly late (though it was taken on Friday!). I had to be in Salisbury today for a mate’s birthday party, so I thought I’d kill some time with my camera before we all had to meet up. I remembered that I’d never actually spent any time in the grounds of the Cathedral; it’s an incredibly beautiful building so I figured it wouldn’t be too difficult. I spent about an hour wandering round the building, getting frustrated that I couldn’t get the perspective right and it was too late in the day so the side I wanted to shoot was in front of the sun. It was a disaster. Most of the shots I ended up with put the tower in totally the wrong perspective and made it look tiny, so about 75% of them were binned straight away! (more…)

Charlotte saved the day today. Normally if I went out and didn’t get a single thing I wouldn’t really care, but we were out for hours today and the centre of Southampton had nothing to offer. I thought I was going to be posting pictures of the roses in the garden (now people will know when I’ve not had a good day!). She spotted this on her driving lesson!

Today, I invested in an ND2 and an ND2-Grad filter and Cokin holder. The grad was used on this as the sun was pretty damn bright. I like them a lot. I wanted to get an IR filter but apparently the D200 doesn’t like IR. I’m looking forward to getting my filter on. Or something.

Tomorrow, hopefully something from the New Forest