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ACP Snowy Mountains Workshop….

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

I travelled down to Currango Station over the October Long weekend for an ACP Landscape weekend. Currango Station’s buildings include the oldest surviving continuously-occupied homestead in Australia’s Kosciuszko National Park. It is also the largest and most intact example of permanent settlement above the snowline in the country, and has great historical significance as one of the most important links to the first European settlement of the area.

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A great weekend with some good results. Many thanks to Dave Stanton and the Dee Why Camera Club for the tips on the slide show.

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First Car Mount Test – Not a bad start…

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

I’ve always wanted to mount a camera on the side of my car and see how it looks. Gave it a shot today and it was not too bad.
Check the video for the set-up.
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Settings :
1Ds Mark 1 – The sacrifice camera
15mm f2.8 Fish Eye
2 x Magic Arms
Manfrotto 241 suction cup mount.
Super clamps, safety cables, Multimaxs etc….


Things to change for next time :
Lower and wider angle. Need to see wheel blur
Slower shutter speed to get better motion blur

Here are some of the final results.

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Dirt Works 100

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

I was off shooting the DirtWorks 100 for cycle-photos.com. It was a good weekend away with the boys and some ambitious shooting set-ups with remote cameras and remote flashes. Results were varied, but generally great!!

First Location was shot with 70-200 and a remote flash. Flash was in a tree about 1M from the shoot spot so it was only running at 1/128th power and zoomed at 35mm. The result from this was Great!!!
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The second shot in this location was from a wide lens placed low with a remote flash. The problems with this were focus and shooting above the 1/250th sync speed of the cameras. We wanted to shoot at 1/400th minimum, so there would be some shutter blockage here and there. Most of the problems were focus. I focussed on the track where the riders were, then switched to manual focus, but they all appeared back-focussed. Something to work on for next time I guess.
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I think next time if we swap these around, so the long shot is from a remote camera location and the wide is from the human it might work better. Other problems with the 580s powering off I have fixed now (C-Fn-14=1). I’ll try to give this a go before we head out again somewhere.

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Broomball – Remotes. Some lessons learned.

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

I was out at Penrith yesterday shooting Broomball (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broomball). I used to opportunity to set-up some remote camera on the railing of the mezanine level of the rink. Everything worked well……apart from the results.

It was not all worthless, with a few sort-of keepers, but I doubt they are salable. Check the video for my set-up.

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Results from the 1DMark2N were fair at best, but it is ok at OSI1600 and the settings on 1/200 and f3.2 were ok, but the shot was no way tight enough. It is almost pointless to crop this sort of shot and the aperture was too shallow.

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Results from the 1Ds at 1600 were not really good. Same settings as the Mark2N, but the quality was too poor under any crop. Needs to be WAY tighter in framing and needs to run from a strobe or under better light.

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Lessons for next time:
1. Shoot tighter.
2. Shoot wider aperture.
3. If using the 1Ds in poor light, use a flash/Strobe.
4. Shoot tighter.

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Ironman Videos

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

I’ve put some videos together from the Ironman weekend. Still new to Video so please excuse the shots and editing.

I spent quite a bit of time getting my gear ready for Ironman. I like to be prepared. Check the video for the gear list

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Video of the Ironman Village and the locations for Sunday’s Race

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Getting gear ready for the Carbo night and shots of the night itself

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Getting all the gear ready for race day…

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Shots of race day…

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