While uploading photographs to my new blog, I have been having a lot of difficulties. The files upload but then I get a http error during the crunching stage. Once uploaded the images cannot be sized, only put up at there original size.
I spent sometime looking at the WordPress help pages but eventually I found the answer here: Just adding the line
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
to the top of my .htaccess file, fixed my load problems. This file is located in the folder you installed your WordPress to on you host server.
Well as I reported from my iPhone the trip went ahead, more of a scouting trip then an actual picture taking trip, but I got the feeling that my picture will work.
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The low sun and dramatic contrast made metering the scene some what challenging but I got some good snaps and hopefully I can go back when the sun is in the right place and the weather provides a little more dramatic interest!
Secret Squirrel
Lakeland View
The Boat House
Autumn Woodland
Note the squirrel, I was all setup slow shutter speed to shoot the landscape when behind me on the bridge a squirrel ran across, I just managed to grab a shot.
Photo’s here taken with my D200 and a Nikkor 12-24mm f/4.
My studio work is very planned. A studio is like a painters blank canvas. When I plan a studio shoot, there is so much to think about.
Selecting the model, her shape, size, experience, colour of hair and eyes
Clothes
The poses
The studio set, whether a plain back ground or coloured, or a more complex set
Props
and of course the lighting, some times just a single light and reflector, other times I have used up to seven flash heads to light a scene.
A studio shoot for me its the ultimate in photography. Everything can be pre-visualised and planned to the nth degree.
Single LightComplex Lighting Setup
I would like to be able to say my landscape and architectural shoots are planned to the same degree but I am afraid not. Generally these type of shoots are taken on holidays, and I just happen upon these views and try to make the best of them.
This is something I would like to change, and the photography course I am booked on in December I hope will bring more planning and pre-visualisation to this part of my photography.
Isle of Syle
To this end tomorrow, subject of course to the British weather, i’ll be heading out to try and capture an Autumn scene. I have the image in my head, and with good planing, and of course local knowledge and the internet I hope to get the image I want.
So Saturday morning will see the chief photographer of RBPhotograpic heading out with his medium format camera gear and hoping to get the image in his head commited.
Equipment List
Hasselblad 503CW Body
Hasselblad 80mm f/2.8 Planar CFi
Manfrotto 055 Tripod
Sekonic L-758D Digital Master Light Meter
Sekonic L 758 Light Meter
I may also take a digital compact, or my iPhone to snap a few reference shots to post tomorrow, to show you what I had in mind.
In case your wondering it involves, a lake, low winter sun, and lots of trees. Heres hoping for good weather.
I have always used small format camera’s; eg 35mm film or APC-C sensor equipped SLR’s.
This year I made the move to Medium format to complement my SLR kit, it certainly slows you down and makes you think about your photography.
I decided to book myself on a large format course, now thats slow photography.
Its being held in December so i’ll update you all then.
Tuesday as usual we visited the father in law, Alan.
Normally its a motorcycle ride straight from work to the village where he lives, but tonight we headed home first to get the car. It was a cold day and neither of us were packing our thermal undies; it was likely to be late night so rather then face a cold trip home on the Bike, the car sounded a better bet. It would also give me a chance to grab my laptop, I wanted to have a play with the default blog options my hosting company provides.
The reason for our visit, just the usual Tuesday night visit, to inflict my cooking on him. Today, cauliflower and home made cheese sauce. At least thats what I made for Caroline and Alan, for myself a burger. I cannot stand cauliflower.
There was another reason for making the visit. Alan had purchased a new Sony A55, a fun little camera which I can well recommend for a beginner or someone wanting a small body SLR. Rather a unique camera with its fixed mirror, kind of a hybrid between a EVIL (Electronic Viewfinder Interchangeable Lens Camera) and a normal SLR.
Hassleblad 503CW
Carl Zeiss 80mm F/2.8 Planar CFi T*
1/250 Sec at f/11, Fujifilm Fujichrome Velvia 50 Professional [RVP50] ISO50
Processed in Adobe Lightroom V3.2
On a Mac MacBook Pro, OS-X 10.6.4
Wow yes Film, I enjoy shooting landscape and find that often I work better using the larger formats. Medium and Large format digital backs are far to expensive currently so its back to film. Only a quick low quality scan but the slides look out of this world.
Phone Snap Shots – Sky through the Car Window – August
Phone
This month, I did not shoot any personal work but did shoot a commission for a local company, so instead I am posting a shot I took through the car window of a particular nice sky I liked the look of. Not a brilliant shot but a fun little snap I took with my phone.
Nikon D200 SLR
Nikor 24-70mm F/2.8
38mm, 1/180 Sec at f/8, ISO100
Processed in Adobe Lightroom V3.0 & HDR in Photomatix
On a Mac MacBook Pro, OS-X 10.6.4
I am not huge fan of over the top HDR (High Dynamic Range), much prefer the subtle approach, but for once the bright colours of the front of the University building seemed to suit an over the top approach. This was taken as part of the World Photowalk. This was the second year I had entered. For our City walk last year, I was awarded a third place. This year I was very pleased to here I had won. Note, not with this image I would like to add.
