rocket launch

Here are some pics from the daily mail that caught my eye recently. The pics are from Koreas successful rocket launch in ordered by Kim Jong il 2nd. The images caught my imagination as they are as the daily mail describes them, just like something out of a bond movie. The full story in attached to the link below, which includes a video of the Koreans celebrating the successful mission. It highlights the difference between themselves and the west as the celebrate in mass unison. 

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2247971/Kim-Jong-Un-North-Korean-leader-puffs-cigarette-oversees-rocket-launch-terrified-world.html

School reunion

It had been talked about on facebook for sometime and now was actually time to do it. My own 10 year school anniversary took place on saturday. I will be honest and say that I was not intending to go as I have left school and moved one. But my mate Adrian suggested that this would be a great way to network with people who are at the age where they would be getting married and starting up families. So how could I really turn an opportunity like that down. I meet up with some of my friend s who were also going before hand and there was a definite air of anticipation about us. I was thinking how was i going to tackle meeting people I haven't seen for years and trying to rekindle the same if not better friendships that once had been. I thought that so long as I had my camera it would be a great excuse to meet everyone and capture their portraits. Its what I like to do when meeting new people, just get stuck in and start socialising.

I did contemplate bussiness cards for the event but I thought that it would be the wrong way to approach this type of shoot. I would just upload them onto my facebook page and that way people would have direct contact to me when they need me. I felt that the event was making people more aware that I was a photographer rather than flogging off my services stright way. When I did get to the reunion it was immediately apparent  that everyone was friendly and happy to see who did attend the night. I had a great time chatting to everyone and I was glad that I decided to go. Among getting shots of everyone who was at the reunion I even managed to get a big group shot, which after popular demand was the pinnacle of the night photographically. I thought that had I not had been there doing my thing, the big group shot would not had taken place and the opportunity missed.

The new camera worked a treat and reinforced my diction to purchase it. I completely forgot that it even did video as well until I got back. I can see that this is going to be an fantastic partnership with me and the camera. Bring on the shoots!

Tuesday night football

I was asked by an old friend to get some shots of him and his footie mates playing last tuesday. They have been playing 5 a side for about 2 years but they do not have any pics. I though this would be an excellent chance to try out my new canon 60d. Thats right, I finally got my hands on it. My very own and I must say im loving the camera. Anyways the shoot was for about an hour or so and took place in some indoor playing courts. I took with me a broken telephoto which some how has come back to like when i use it with this new camera. I though as well as my other lens I could really do with a tele lens to zoom in on the action, much like the photographers at sport games do. A risky strategy that i was interested to see how it would work with this non pressured photo shoot. However while shooting it was not the lens which proved problematic, with was the lighting. It was that awful orange fluorescent flood lighting which is just the about the worse light to work with. The lighting also proved too dim photographically making my task of capturing images even harder, as low light and fact moving object never equal pin sharp images. 

Thinking back on what I could have done to achieve even greater results. I could have got my hands on a lens that had a higher sensitively ratio. But seeing as I don't own one and no money was being put towards to shoot to hire one this was not an option. Also I could have used a flash. This shoot just demonstrated its importance in photography. And although the new camera can work in low light situations the images are still at high risk of distortion and grain. Luckily in for this shoot I think the flash would have become more of a distraction to the players. With that said here are some of me favorite results.