Into the Blue (Westy 52)

Hi all - A little early this week, but I have a busy weekend ahead, so thought I would get the shot 'in the bag'.

The shot is very simple to set-up:

A baking tray filled with water, with a bag suspended above it, dripping water (in this case, with red food colouring in it).

Manual focus on the 'splash area'.

The shot is lit from the back, by firing a single flash onto the white backdrop.

The blue tint to the water is simply achieved by setting the WB on the camera to tungsten.

It takes lots of trial and error, but occasionally, you get a really nice shot!

SB-900, D300 + 105 2.8 Macro.

Second this time

Another shot of mine was voted second in Kate Day's Telegraph blog last week.

The shot was taken at Woburn Safari park, during the Birds in Action display.

Kate runs a photo competition every week - The quality of entries is usually excellent.

The link to Kate's site is: Here

The full size Parrot image is viewable on my Flickr site, by clicking on the image below:

Beauty (it's a Beast)

Really pleased with the Mac Pro now.

It has taken me 10 days or so to get it set-up as I would like.

The set-up now is:

• MacPro (2.66 GHz Quad-Core)
• 6 GB DDR3 Ram
• 640GB internal HD
• 500Gb internal mirror HD
• drobo (2 TB)
• 24" Samsung 2443BW Monitor
• 20" Apple Cinema Display
  
• Airport + Bluetooth Card

Simply amazing performance - Aperture and FCP Studio 2 just fly.

I am considering a Canon MP980 printer to replace the ip5000 - But that may have to wait another month.

Can't catch me

G9 for this image - Loved the lighting caused by the holes in the tunnel that Megan was crawling through.

Perfectly (bit of a fluke!) matched to the soles of her sandles.

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