Not for the squeamish (though honestly you'd have to be a really big sissy to be upset by this):


More pleasant stuff:

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I am uncomfortable with the analogue stick placement on the Dual Shock 4.

Really nice images. Topic wants me to go out and do some serious dilligent photography, instead of casually photographing things. Like a project with real post processing and printing/framing. Would be a nice change.

Or I could just properly go through the tonne of material I already have namely Japan. Pour over all these unrealised ideas and stuff I've got and actually do some work.

Struggling to involve myself with myself at the moment.. doesn't help being stuck down uni way! Need to short my gooseberry fool out, get moving, get a little sketchbook, Macbook, guitar, camera and just dedicate every day to making whatever the hell I feel like.

It's strange, that freedom, where it's daunting and you can't understand not having any "work" to do. When that opportunity finally arrives, you are stranded in the oceanic waves of potentials.

The trick is limiting myself. Maybe do an intensely focused study on one thing, one surface, one aesthetic.. maybe even just one object, place, moment in time, day, hour.. Photography is suited to this.

This totally reads like a blog post.

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PM is your friend.

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I am uncomfortable with the analogue stick placement on the Dual Shock 4.

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My first attempt at Light Painting. It's a lot harder than I thought.


Sorely in need of a tripod. Went to look at some and couldn't quite decide. The rubbish ones were cheap and the more expensive ones were a third of the cost of a new lens, which just made me want a new lens.

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I am uncomfortable with the analogue stick placement on the Dual Shock 4.

Hah that's awesome! Did you just use a torch? Or an LED lamp?

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I used the LED flashlight on my HTC Desire.

I went out today and tried to look for some colour torches but couldn't find any. They're quite hard to find even on eBay/Amazon, which is annoying as I'd like to try much more ambitious "paintings."


Also discovered (much to my dismay) that the "Bulb" setting on the D3100 only lasts as long as you hold it down, which is obviously totally useless for something like this, so I'm limited to 30 second exposures until I buy a remote.



I really enjoy things like this. 6 years ago when all I had to play with was my dad's Powershot S45 and I'd muck around with it for hours and got some very reasonable results with it. I remember doing some product photography and just using whatever I could lay my hands on around the house for a background and to filter a lamp that I used for the lighting. I got much more impressive results then than with this light painting stuff, but the process of figuring out what I want (or more accurately, what I can do with what limited things I have to hand), and then tinkering with the setup and camera settings is something which I actually find quite relaxing.

In a couple of days I'm going to try some high speed photography, but it looks quite difficult, and without a remote release, I'm going to need a hand from someone, which is annoying. The D3100 "only" goes to 1/4000 of a second, so it'll be interesting to see what that's capable of capturing.

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I am uncomfortable with the analogue stick placement on the Dual Shock 4.

I see someone else is a fan of DigitalRev too, then.

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strawberry floatr

You knows it.

Although it was just that one example they showed of something being dropped in a glass that made me want to do it. The actual video was pretty poor I thought and wasn't actually a particularly good guide as they didn't go into what the best way to actually trigger the flash is.

And I don't have a flash other than the one in my camera so I'll be working with the shutter only.

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I am uncomfortable with the analogue stick placement on the Dual Shock 4.

They were manually triggering the flash when they needed it, there's normally a ready/test button on them that you use, something you can't really do with the pop-up flash built in to a camera.

What you'll find using the in camera flash is, that you'll be limited to shooting at your camera's flash sync speed, which is normally around 1/160 - 1/250. Any higher than this, and you can end up with photos containing big black bars that are actually the inside of your shutter still rolling as the flash fires. However, so long as the only source of light is the flash, this shouldn't matter, as it is going to be much faster, anyway. You simply won't have the luxury of being able to set the shutter open before firing the flash.

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strawberry floatr

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I am uncomfortable with the analogue stick placement on the Dual Shock 4.

My new pet chicken, it's special because no other chicken has these colours.

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Looks tasty.

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strawberry floatr

First new photos in yonks:

Meerkat sad



Meerkat stare



Meerkat FIGHT



Kookaburra, kookaburra, oh, you're a kookaburra [/britney]

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Seemples.....

Those meerkats

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