“Whats a photo Blog?” I was asked. The answer is not that dissimilar to a normal blog. Just that instead of pulling material from inordinate day to day life this ‘photo blog’ will concentrate on photos (surprise surprise) and what went on before I hit the shutter release. Even if a picture tells a thousand words sometimes it might be worth another couple of hundred just to find out what went on behind the lens.
For example, lets have a look at this photo, (No explanations yet just have a look at it…)
Personally I am not one to add lengthy captions to the base of each photo, in the galleries you will find a fairly short caption stating that this photo was taken in “Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia” followed by shutter speed, aperture etc… all the things you really want to know. But those things really don’t tell you how the photo was taken do they?
I could have had much the same result with double the shutter speed and one stop larger aperture (*more details on this to come). Look closer, at the horizon now… yes slightly skew isn’t it… how did that happen you may ask, artistic licence?, optical effect due to the hills on the right? or was it something more sinister? In this case it was a dirty great lamb kebab I was munching on which meant that only one hand was capable of holding my camera. So after all that when you probably expected tripod, ND filter and careful exposure meetering all the photo really came down to was. Which buttons can i reach without getting tzatziki all over the expensive end of my camera.
Which leaves us with the real caption:
Byron Bay Sunset as seen looking north from ‘Hippie Rocks’, Captured on a Canon 350D with patented Lamb Kebab lens support, New South Wales, Australia.
So welcome to my photo blog.
