EDP - Experimental Digital Photography

Today I wandered outside and offset against a pure blue sky was skywriting being done. Now I could have just looked at it and gone back inside, but I naturally grabbed a camera instead. The camera I grabbed was my 350D that was converted for infrared photography and my 100-400 f5.6 IS L-series lens. The [...]

We often have expectations of what we can and cannot photograph. Usually these expectations are not only completely wrong but they also hold us back in various ways. I had this made clear to me last week. Last week we got away to the family beach out for a bit of R&R, which was desperately [...]

Mostly our camera accessories work for us, but sometimes they get in the way. The Solution is a bit of do-it-yourself. Over recent months I have been experimenting with long exposure photography. To do this in normal daytime lighting requires the use of a very heavy neutral density filter or something like an infrared filter. [...]

A recent flight to Sydney to deliver some photography workshops at the Sydney Hilton had me sitting in a window seat. So I spent the flight happily shooting IR out the window. Here is one of the resulting images:

To teach my 9 year old daughter how animation can be done, we set about creating the two short animations you can see here by taking many still images with Lauren’s camera with small changes made to the models for each one. We then put these together in Adobe Premier or iMovie and exported the [...]

We had the official opening of the ‘A World of Photography’ exhibition on the 30th of November, from 7pm onwards. This was the second event that brought people into the exhibition, the first being a celebration of the accreditation of the new degree course the Australian Academy of Design.

My Canon 350D arrived back today from LDP in the states (www.MaxMax.com) who converted it for infrared photography by removing the IR blocking filter and replacing it with a 715nm IR filter.

Here is the latest test image. Shot with a 400D, 100ISO, 1/2 second exposure. A bee. I am still getting what seems to be glar in the center of the image. I am looking at replacing the normal eyepiece with a photo one to see if this works better.

I’ve had requests to show the rig I have been experimenting with. So consider this a first pass at this. I am using a Chinese made (I am looking at importing and selling them in Australia, as the price is GREAT) stereo binocular microscope that seems to have very good optics. It is a zoom [...]

After careful focus setting for the camera eyepiece, so it is parfocal with the main eyepieces, I got the following result with my Canon 400D.