I haven’t had as much time as I thought I would to stop for 20mins or so and pump out a few images. But not to worry, once the holiday is over (4 days remaining ) I’ve amassed a fair few from each city to work though :)
Here are a few selected from Ha Long Bay, Vietnam. We had amazing weather while we were there and thanks to a great recommendation had a fantastic junk boat (Calypso Cruiser) to spend our night on.
7 Days into our 24 day tour of South East Asia and I thought I’d better get a few images up to share what we’ve seen. Hà Nội was our first stop, and wow did it blow our minds… to the point that I think we didn’t really take it all in. Everyone I’d talked to about Vietnam had said that Hà Nội was pretty crazy, but until you arrive it really didn’t sink in.
I’m never one for planning what we actually do when we get to a country so we simply got lost in the streets and enjoyed some food, drink and sight seeing.
Took the new 14-24mm out for a test run the other night down to ACCA in South Melbourne.
A little while back I’d borrowed a Hasselblad 500C/M for a couple of weeks. Given I think I’ve shot maybe 3 rolls of film in my life I was a tad worried about my ability to meter without a light meter on the subject (I had one but not a spot meter). These are a couple of the odd ones that came from those couple of weeks. I need to get the neg’s re-scanned as I’d only got low res from the lab. So will post the rest when I’ve had a chance to put a few adjustments on them. In the mean time here’s 4 straight out of the camera.
As an interesting note; check out the railway image… not entirely sure what happened here? Perhaps something to do with the processing or when being scanned… but I like it :)
I’ve been working on trying to build a small series of portraits. See below for the first few :)
Got up this morning and made our way inland to Ballarat to check out a couple of exhibitions at the Ballarat International Foto Biennial 2011 (BIFB11). Great range of works to be seen from a range of different photographers. Highlights were:
Jan Saudek
Colin Page
John Gollings
Duffy
David B Simmons
Dave Tacon
As well as enjoying these we managed to enjoy a fantastic lunch at a little cafe called Eclectic Tastes. If you’re up in Ballarat we highly recommend you check this place out.
Here’s a few images from the cafe.
Took a stroll down to Docklands while the light was nice this evening. No tripod with me so everything is handheld. Loving these beautiful winters days at the moment, hopefully we can have a few more of them leading into spring.
Melbourne Open House 2011 was on this weekend, so Sylvie and I hit the streets to take in a bit of what was on offer. Saturday’s weather wasn’t to crash hot, but with camera’s over my shoulder we hit the city to check out the Intercontinental Melbourne and the JA Substation.
On Sunday we aimed to check out the Recital Center and AAMI Park… but due to my considerable lack of planning, we found that both of these were open on Saturday only… Muppet.
Not letting that stop us enjoying a gorgeous winters day in Melbourne we drove down and parked up near the Sydney Myer Music Bowl. Wondering through there we stopped to capture a few images then carried on to capture a few exterior shots at AAMI Park.
Below are the results of the weekend.
On top of this I have a few roles of 120 Film to process from the Hasselblad I’ve been lucky enough to borrow for a week. More on that soon : )
It’s been a busy few months here as I’m now out assisting on a regular basis for Cameron Murray Photography :) While that has been awesome I haven’t actually gone out myself to do any shooting since I finished my folio last semester. So yesterday I grabbed the tripod and camera and headed down to Docklands to see what new buildings have sprung up.
It still doesn’t seem to have taken off in Melbourne…. plenty of apartment buildings, new office buildings and shops, but barely a person to be seen.
Anyway, I found a couple of buildings I liked with an interesting facades, so walked around them looking for some interesting angles to capture.
In keeping with the dark moody day its been today I’ve processed these as black and white, added some noise and punched in a bit of contrast.
Sylvie and I are heading out to see the Banff Mountain Film Festival at the RMIT Capitol Theatre tonight :) Been looking forward to this for a few months now.
