Welp, looks like I well and truly failed my 30 day challenge… Luckily, this is my blog and I can make up whatever rules I want, so I’m calling it a success!
Anyways, I took some more photos! I’m going to post them here whenever I feel like it. It should be fairly often because I have a massive backlog of stuff to post.
I took this one at the Semaphore jetty, I was playing around with extended exposures and this ended up being one of my favourites.
Hello there! It’s photo o’clock which means it’s time for me to put up my daily photo (it’s actually 5:30 at the time of writing this, I realise photo o’clock isn’t a real time).
But first I’d like to talk to you all about something that’s been bothering me lately. Listen up, photographers! It’s time to stop vignetting shit all the goddamn time. Seriously, cut it out. It just looks tacky and stupid unless you actually have a shit enough camera/lens that it happens naturally (shout out to all you Lomo and Holga lovers out there!). Here’s the rule you should be following: if you have to use software to vignette it, then you shouldn’t be doing it. You’re almost as bad as those arseholes who add fake lens flares to everything and they are the WORST.
With that out of the way, here’s the photo I took!
It’s a plasma ball! This was a tricky one to take. I had the shutter speed at 0.6 seconds and zoomed in as the camera took the shot to get the effect you see here.
See you tomorrow!
Hello again! I didn’t update my weblog yesterday as I was at my parents, but I still took a photo and HERE IT IS!
I was screwing around with my zoom lens and got a PRETTY SWEET photo of the moon! Enjoy!
Now for day 7 and the promised dandelion and artistic bankruptcy:
SPOILER ALERT: I totally staged this and blew on the dandelion.
BONUS ROUND!
I had some other macro shots of the dandelion that I thought y’all would be interested in:
There we go, a massive freaking update! See you tomorrow!
Hey everyone! So, I don’t know about you but I’m doing amazingly!
Jess and I went to an Ethopian restaurant called ‘Addis Ababa Cafe’ with friends last night and it was INCREDIBLE to say the least. Seriously, if you live in SA (or even if you don’t) you need to be there, tonight (I’ll give you a little bit of leeway if you’re coming from interstate).
The Ethiopians have an amazing way of eating, you won’t find any forks here! You are given rolled-up lengths of a spongy, sourdough flatbread with your meal. You then rip chunks off of it and use it to scoop up food with your fingers. It’s very communal and great fun!
We ordered the banquet (the only way to go really), full of all kinds of delicious, heavily spiced Ethopian delights. My personal favourite was the Kitfo, an amazing dish of raw minced beef marinated in mitmita (a chilli spice blend) and niter kibbeh (clarified butter which has been infused with herbs and spices) and served with a side of homemade cottage cheese.
After much effort, we decided we were too full to finish everything and ordered coffee. I seriously can’t stop ranting about how good the coffee is. It’s a specially spiced Ethiopian coffee and is brought out with incense. It’s thick, sweet and delicious, the perfect end to a perfect meal (it didn’t hurt that we got around 3-4 cups each out of the pot either!). Better yet, the whole thing cost us $30 a person. Seriously, go there.
Anyway, enough rambling about restaurants which you should go to as soon as you can and onto the photos!
This is exactly as it came out of the camera, I just fiddled with the levels a little bit. I know it looks fake as hell but you have to believe me on this one.
BONUS ROUND!
I totally couldn’t decide between 2 photos that I took so you’re getting 2 photos today!
I took this one from the road leading to the Adelaide Gaol. I also thought it looked really cool in a blue-tinted black and white so you can have that one too!
See you tomorrow!
SPOILER ALERT: I took some close-up shots of a dandelion because I’m artistically bankrupt, look forward to it!
Howdy y’all! Because I’m a super creative genius, I took another photo of the lillies in my kitchen!
I used the reverse lens trick here because I’m super poor and a macro lens costs a lot of money.
Basically, you take the lens of your camera, turn it around and attach it back to the camera somehow (I used blu-tack). The result is a super macro lens that is a pain in the arse to focus properly! Give it a shot if you have an SLR.
See you tomorrow!
Holy guacamole you guys, it’s that time again! This time I took a photo of myself blowing out a candle, it’s as exciting as it sounds!
Taking photos of yourself is hard. I’ve got like a bajillion photos where I’m in the complete wrong spot. I just kinda fluked this one (don’t tell anyone).
See you tomorrow!
Well, it’s that time again! I had to brave the cold and the wet to take this (and forced Jess to brave it along with me).
This almost didn’t get posted. A truck pulled down a stobie pole on my street and I didn’t have power for ages! It’s ok now though.
See you tomorrow!
