Toy Tuesday & Thursday - H

Second Episode

And this is the other half.

The Doctor is In

Well, Matt Smith is now well and truly The Doctor, after the opening episode of Series 5, "The Eleventh Hour".
The first of the new series action figures have been released (along with the new Sonic Screwdriver, which I'm giving a miss).
This is one half of the "Crash" set.

Camera crew in the Borough Market.

Back to Basics

As an experiment, I decided to forgo the D-SLR, macro lens and flash set-up, and try to produce some shots with the most basic set-up I could get together.

Lighting is provided by a desk lamp from Wilkinsons reflected off the white side of an A3 piece of art board, with a peice of A4 paper folded in half on the other side to provide fill.
The background is another piece of card, and the figure is stood on a piece of black card.
I used two different cameras for this test, a Fuji s602z (a 3mp model from 2002) and a more recent Canon Powershot G9 (10mp, 2007).
Both cameras where tripod mounted.

Set-up Shot



Shot from the s602 and desklamp (left), and Canon G9 with flash (right)



Not bad for an eight year old camera. Proof that you don't need loads of expensive equipment to take decent photos.

More photos here

A Foggy Day on Mondas

We've had a lot of fog where I live over the last few weeks (along with quite a bit of snow) so I decided to head out to try and take some pictures.
I had an idea for a shot in my head so I packed a camera, my 35mm f2 lense, a flash and a toy Cyberman. The picture was taken in Peoples Park in Town, lit with a bare Speedlight handheld camera left. To get the background to be recognisable I had to stop down to f8, so the shutter speed was a slow 1/10th of a second, which is why the Cyberman has a little bit of a "ghosting" affect.
I used Live View to compose the shot as I couldn't get low enough to use the viewfinder. Overall I'm quite pleased with it, and I'm going to try some similar ideas soon.

And yes I know it isn't a Mondasian cyberman :)

Superhighway

Harry got a new fibre-optic light toy for Christmas so I couldn't resist taking a few shots. :)