Stuck In Customs

And this time a rare Pentax shot!

Another from BM 2012

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• Date Taken2012-08-31 23:42:42
• CameraK-30
• Camera MakePentax
• Exposure Time1/125
• Aperture4
• ISO3200
• Focal Length18.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
• Exposure Bias

A rare Olympus E-PL1 shot for the blog from a dust storm at Burning Man 2012.

Burning Man 2012

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• Date Taken2011-08-31 00:00:00
• CameraE-PL1
• Camera MakeOlympus
• Exposure Time1/2000
• Aperture4
• ISO100
• Focal Length14.0 mm
• FlashAuto, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
• Exposure Bias+0.3

… I do love a Leica lens on my Sony a7R cameras. Even if I mostly use the 24-105 nowadays.

Speaking of Leica…

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• Date Taken2014-05-11 15:17:51
• CameraILCE-7R
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/60
• Aperture
• ISO100
• Focal Length0.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
• Exposure Bias

Here’s a shot from another random camera experiment. One from the Leica Q one evening in Venice, circa 1875.

Random Cameras Along the Way

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• Date Taken2016-02-07 15:57:17
• CameraLEICA Q (Typ 116)
• Camera MakeLeica
• Exposure Time1/60
• Aperture1.7
• ISO2000
• Focal Length28.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramProgram AE
• Exposure Bias

This is one of those situations where people seem to have a weird irrational reaction to a word. You almost always get a more positive reaction/conversation with people when you talk about quadcopter compared to drone. People are weird. Anyway, regardless of what you want to call them they are awesome, and it really unlocked a bunch of composition options when I moved to my first DJI model back in 2012 or so. Back then there was a bit of guess work involved where you had to attach a GoPro and then send the quadcopter up in the air to capture the images without any real way of knowing what you’d captured until you viewed the results on the device. Here’s one such image from Beijing. Shortly before I spent a little time in Chinese prison…

Quadcopters… not drones

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• Date Taken2012-01-09 06:40:09
• CameraHero3-Black Edition
• Camera MakeGoPro
• Exposure Time1/30
• Aperture2.8
• ISO210
• Focal Length2.8 mm
• FlashNo flash function
• Exposure ProgramProgram AE
• Exposure Bias

I like to think I’m pretty good with my equipment and taking reasonable care of it. That the a7R III, for example, has lasted me 5+ years all over the globe, from the USA tour, to the Euro tour (as a backup), to Africa, Asia and most recently my Scottish adventure. You’ll note that I mention backup on the Euro tour. That’s because I’d decided back around that time to move to Hasselblad and their new X1D, as well as taking on an ambassadorial role with them. That’s not something I usually do for a brand but I liked the equipment after some time with the H5D and was interested to see how the support and relationship would be on a larger trip like our bus tour and photowalks from Portugal to Moscow (via loads of Europe). Anyway, on that very trip there was a “small” mishap with the X1D where I (and my team) left a train between Amsterdam and Rotterdam (i think) and well… the X1D continued onwards, alone, never to be seen again! Sorry Hasselblad!

As for the camera, soooo slow…. but that thing did take AWESOME images.

Note: I’m no longer a Hasselblad Ambassador. A mutual, uneventful end to the relationship when they decided to take their ambassador program in a different direction. I’m sure it was nothing to do with losing some of their high-end kit… probably.

The Hasselblad X1D Incident

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• Date Taken2017-05-02 19:35:25
• CameraX1D
• Camera MakeHasselblad
• Exposure Time16
• Aperture16
• ISO100
• Focal Length30.0 mm
• Flash
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

I guess this is the camera body that should be described as “my” camera. Up until this point in my photography I’d jumped from body to body and brand to brand but despite moving to other models along the way such as the mark 4 and the Hasselblad X1D I’ve always returned to the a7R III. It has its battle scars for sure, but it has never let me down, across many continents and trips in the most extreme conditions and it’s still going strong today.

Sony’s a7R III

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• Date Taken2018-02-02 05:20:08
• CameraILCE-7RM3
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/320
• Aperture4
• ISO3200
• Focal Length105.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

The one area of photography which still continues to evolve at speed is mobile. One of the handsets which really made me start to think about when I wouldn’t need to carry a main camera most of the time was the Google Pixel. It couldn’t compete with my a7R but you could see where the market was going, especially with the computational work that was going on with the images and by the time we hit the Pixel 3 range I was able to drop an image into my a7R series review and have it not stand out amongst a range of full frame images. Here’s an image from my original Pixel…

Pixels Pt.1

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• Date Taken2017-03-28 12:03:54
• CameraPixel
• Camera MakeGoogle
• Exposure Time1/2200
• Aperture2
• ISO54
• Focal Length4.7 mm
• FlashAuto, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramProgram AE
• Exposure Bias

Regular readers will no doubt be aware that I like to experiment, a lot. In many ways. One such experiment, on the tech side of things, has been 360 content. Mostly video but occasionally i’ll drop in something like today’s image which was created on one of the reasonably early Insta360 models. You can do all sorts of weird stuff when you’ve got all that image data. For more experimentations in 360, click the 360 category just under the title of today’s post. All sorts in there, from me randomly walking around places all over the word, to discussions with interesting people such as Hugh Howey (creator of Silo on Apple TV) and Dr Jack Horner, the dino guy that Sam Neill’s character in Jurassic Park is based on.

Experimentations in 360

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• Date Taken2018-04-17 10:56:58
• Camera
• Camera Make
• Exposure Time
• Aperture
• ISO
• Focal Length
• Flash
• Exposure Program
• Exposure Bias