A study of light and shade - Pt 1

Last night I packed up some cameras, some film, some flowers, some incense, some lights, a projector screen and some imagination.

I picked up my friend and headed over to another friend's house. I had planned for us to go out to the forest, but we used under the house instead. It is getting very cold at night, so it was probably for the best. When we do head out to the forest, I will think less about body shadows and more about heavy clothing.

I played with some spot lighting and with the use of a very subdued flash, but the best light ended up coming from the old strip fluro on the roof. The colours and shapes it threw off were brilliant.

I intended to play with smoke for this shoot, however my smoke bombs are still in preparation. We did manage to achieve a nice layer of smoke over a few of the images. This post is just a selection of the shots from last night.

Ok, I'm using a lot of self restraint by only posting half of the images I was going to share with you. The next half will be posted tomorrow.

I hope you enjoy these shots. It was a major learning experience, and made me realise how badly I want my own studio set up.

Stranger.

Warped view of the world of late.

Hellooo. I've been busy with work and haven't felt like sitting down and editing shots to post. What I *did* feel like this morning was mucking around.

How's your week been?

Stranger.

City Streets - B+W

Well, the rain has stopped and the blue skies are out. Perfect street photography weather. On Sunday, David from The Brisbane Catalogue messaged me and said that he and a few friends were going to head out and wander the streets. Cameras included of course. It was such a great walk around, I saw parts of the city that I've never ventured to before, even though they were only a block or so away from the main streets.

It also gave me a chance to start playing with digital B+W, which I've been wanting to do for ages. Here are some of my results from our roam, all in B+W. I am really happy with the results.

I think the last shot is my favourite from the day. I will post it in colour tomorrow, I think I like it better in colour.

I had a heap of fun and can't wait to go out again. I took four cameras with me, but only ended up using two of them. Next time I will pack lighter, that way I will force myself to use the two I take with me. I wish I shot more with my film SLR, although not less with my DSLR. I just know that I missed shots like this on the SLR by taking them with my digital. I had my Pentax ME loaded with faux B+W [it is developed with C41 processing, so a colour process] and would have liked to have seen what some of these turned out like with the film.

Oh well, next time.

Stranger.

Picnic Brunch #2

More photos!

I couldn't tell if I liked some of yesterday's photos better as a group or on their own, so I'm re posting them on their own haha. Courtney was sporting my new beanie and one of my cameras. What a hipster.

How rad is my new camera strap? It was in its original bag for $6 at an op shop. It is freaking brilliant.

We took an instax photo each. I love them both so much! We took a few mobile photos too, I'm please how they turned out. If there was less of these I'd post the mobile photos too. Maybe later :)

Have you done anything to explore winter? Or is it pouring down rain like it is here back in Brisvegas. Or maybe it's summer where you live?

Stranger.

Picnic Brunch

It's holiday time! Uni holidays that is. What better way to celebrate than a picnic brunch on the river at Matchstick Park. It's not really called Matchstick Park, but it is surrounded by thin spindly Poplar trees and I named it Matchstick Park as a kid.

Courtney is going overseas for her brother's wedding so we met up extra early in the morning armed with blankets, cameras, a little camp stove and fake bacon. Mmmm :)

Exciting news for all you Vegos out there who crave marshmallows like I do - Mum found gelatin free marshmallow fluff stuff at The Reject Shop! It's not Vegan, because it still has egg whites, but it is gelatin free and full of gums and fake flavours haha. It's so yummy! And it comes in regular flavour and smokey campfire flavour! I have stocked up on it, I am now the proud owner of 5 tubs of each - well, 4 and a half :)

[I'm Vegetarian +, but not Vegan because I believe in self sufficiency and ethical practices. I don't drink milk. I only eat the eggs from my chickens at home (bar in a few products every now and then like this) that have a brilliant life and have been saved and taught to live free range and organically in our big backyard. I am also a big pro bee supporter, namely local farmers, and urge people to find out more about the horrible disease and plague that is culling bees worldwide. Save the bees!!!]

It was such a beautiful day. I'm trying to save some of these photos to post tomorrow, but it's hard!

Ok! More photos tomorrow. Just two more!

Go out and have a picnic! Enjoy Winter!

Stranger.

Winter Home.

I'm home! Argh it feels so good. I am missing winter terribly. And birds. And grass. And trees. And the winter sunsets.

Isn't that brilliant? And then it slowly fades in to night...

And on that note, time to get tucked up in bed with some warm cats and an electric blanket :)

Stranger.

Welcome to our flatt.

Welcome to my flat!

My flatmate Lachlan and I changed our lounge room around yesterday! It was super fun and we have it set out awesomely now! For the past 4 months it's been set out pretty much the same as where the moving men put the furniture, except we pushed it out to the walls. But now after our re arrange, it's like 4 lounge rooms in 1 !

Aaand, with the new addition of my spunky new lens, I thought it'd be the perfect excuse to post some photos.

Out kitchen is pretty much written off for both health and safety reasons lol, so it's been really difficult trying to prepare and store our food and plates and everything we *don't* want gross or tainted. By moving my big hutch / sideboard in to a spot where we can see it and access it more, we have made a brand new space to store all our cups and cutlery and electrical things like our microwave and toaster, as well as creating a little tea and coffee nook on the end!

 

The furniture in our flat is pretty awesome. It's almost all mine, bar a few things that Lachlan bought after we moved in. Our lounge was free on the side of the road lol, and it's pretty sick. All of the springs are completely destroyed in it so when you sit down it's a little hard to get up, but it's perfect for a beer and to lay back watching Archer or playing Xbox, or enjoying some vinyl on my extensive hi-fi and speaker system.

 

There's Lachlan! We moved the dining table to be right near the hallway door, which means it's right near the kitchen, which means that we can easily bring food in and out to prepare and avoid the stink of the kitchen sink and cupboards [toilet mixed with mould, anyone?]. We actually started a blog called 'Flattmates', but we haven't had the time to post in it in forever. We've been taking more dumb photos and videos whilst drinking though, so maybe soon we'll have the time to post.

So I tag teamed a film lens on to my new lens, and the results are uber dreamy. There is this whole halo effect and the light seems to bounce twice. It's pretty great.

Well, that was a small slither of our lounge room and a smaller one of our flat, but I hope you liked it!

I've taken some shots of the garden I've got made out of buckets and pots on the back landing, I'll post that soon.

Do you like to re arrange your house? Have you got any great furniture finds? Almost all of mine have been under $15 a piece from op shops. What's your best op shop find?

Stranger.