Sunrise Ghana Style

The dawn on a dust back road in Ghana can be beautiful and mysterious (as well as dusty)

A 6 panel panorama

The evening storms in western Ghana are a sign that the harmatan winds season, the harsh dusty winds from the sahara, is about to finish.

Normally taking a panaorama were the lighting of the sky changes so dramatically, is so difficult it seldom works. Part of your photo will be based on murky dark images where other photos will be highkey and bleached out. FOr this reason I took my light and focus from between photos 2 & 3 but half pressing the shutter. Then moveing back to the start photo and beginning the series.



Taken at Newmont's Ahafo gold project.

Transportation of Goods (african style)

Almost everything consumed in traditional daily life is "hand" carried in africa, and the task is almost exclusively "shouldered" by women.

Why is it so?

I have for a long time thought that landscapes (and beachscapes) require a longer wider format. Heck the new digital TVs and my notebook computer even use this wider format now. Yet printer manufactuers and photofinishers are still focussed on a few paper sizes.

Markings on the sand

Capturing a glimpse

Strongly backlit subjects are a nightmare for digital cameras, and this lighting only lasted for seconds as the sun set, so i had to act fast. My Phone camera proved useless, largely because the exposure it selected, it tries to always average the readong but left dark silohettes around the lens flare. Ok I was expecting a bit much!

I hurriedly pulled my trusty olympus camera from my camera bag, turned off the autoflash and swapped to matrix metering mode.

Do you want to play?

Silver afternoon

Break in the storm clouds

Victoria, and particularly Melbourne, is renowned for damatic weather changes, and last weekend just further proved the legend. Such rapid changes in the weather do produc dramatic skies, and if you don't mind getting wet occasionally such times can be perfect to get some moody photos.

Another Wallpaper in a breeze

A stiff off-shore breeze and some good surf gave me the perfect ingrediants to make yet another screen wallpaper. I used corel photo brush filters to enhace the muti-exposure composite (see post below) for the background, my olympus camedia software to add the background for icons and corel paint to assemble everything.

Multi-exposure Collage

I have been following the flight of gulls on the beach, as a mini-photo assignment this week and was mucking around with this series.

When I discovered it made a mneat ultiple-exposure collage created with Picasa

Yet another panorama

Yet another panorama looking towards Wilson's Prom

Visitors to the beach

One good tern, deserves ...

The Setting Sun

A Superb Blue Wren comes to inspect

Creating a Screen Wallpaper

This image returns to a theme I have explored before, lone foot prints on the sand, with some good results. The silver light nicelt fitted the norah jones song which begins "sSummer days are gone too soon."

Wallpaper Summer 1,
originally uploaded by imageo.

My Olympus camedia software (it came with my camera) has a neat ability to overlay part of the image with a pattern to act as a good background for you icons.

Wallpaper Summer 2,
originally uploaded by imageo.

I then added some of the sea gull sereies using Corel Photo-Paint and slitghtly feathering the edges. If you like the resukts you can click on the image to the left and this will take you to my flickr account. Click on the small All sizes Icon (a magnifying glass). You can then either download the large size, by clicking on the lick of right click and select the set as background option

Overcoming the Delay

Photographing birds in flight can be easier than you imagine with a digital camera

It usually does not long before the new owner of a digital camera realises ther ia a serious problem with their camera. The delay between the time you press the shutter button and the actual time when the photo is taken. It is frequently seconds, even on good cameras. The explaination is it takes time to focus, time to read the lighting and even time to charge up the CCD light senor. Yes those reasons are trues but you can easily overcome these by using multi-shot mode. Here the camera just sets up the light reading and focus on the first shoot and then if you keep you finger on the button, the caera will keep taking shoots at regular intervals (this interval may even be definable on your camera). Multi-mode is usually found somewhere on most digital camera menus either as the code MLT or as an icon showin series of overlaping rectangles.

Photographing these sea gulls was relative ease, After setting my camera to multi-shot mode I watched as the gulls flew towards me, focused and pressed and held the button as they passed over head. My camera takes one frame approximately every second which gives me a great series.

The Importance of Disguise

Sometimes you need to hide, sometimes you don't




for photofriday topic :Disguise

coucher du soleil

  

Tropical Abstraction

 

My reason for taking this particular photo was to create a composition of the hard geometry of the building behind with the soft and colourful light in the tree in the forground. 

Last light

 

The end of the day comes very quickly at the end of the day and magnificent lightly affect just last minutes, even seconds 

Success :: Summer Sunset

Marking the end of a successful day, a golden glow over Venus Bay

for photofriday topic :Success

Mt.Isa Skyline

Rural Patchwork