Day Seventy Three - My Favourite

My head's really tired tonight. This snap is from last night and was meant to be uploaded yesterday. Katie's my favourite =). We have a few ideas for photoshoots very soon too and i'm really excited. I can't wait. This photo was just a quickie. No thought to setup or location or anything as we couldn't be bothered leaving my bedroom. Heh. Cookies and Cream ice cream and Katie is way too enticing.

I have a to-do list as long as the great wall of china at the moment. So i'm slowly munching away at it and trying to get scripts written up nicely and organised so i'm more motivated to get out there and get filming. I also picked up some cameras today my Dad found me in Adelaide. One's a little Kodak Retinette. I've never heard of them before but it takes 35mm film and is very similar in appearance and functionality to the Olympus Trip meaning it has aperture control and four focus areas which isn't too common for a twin reflex camera. I'm pretty keen to see how photos come out! The other camera he picked up is a fairly old Minolta 35mm which has a 58mm f1.4 lens attached. The lens itself is worth a lot more than the $10 Dad paid for both of these beauties! If only it was a Nikon lens, I would have wet my pants in excitement.

Nikon D200
28-80mm at 28mm
Vivitar 285hv at 1/16th to camera right into 43" reflective umbrella
Vivitar 285hv at 1/16th in front of us and pointing up through 43" umbrella

Day Seventy Two - Brother Thomas

My brother in the backyard.
I'm not entirely sure where the term 'brother thomas' actually came from. Toby and I have lived with each other all our life, but out of home together in share houses for almost 3 years now. People tend to call us the bro-tos. I believe it orignally came from a guy's name whom our former housemates went to school with by the name of Joe Thomas. That was abreviated to Joto which, in turn, was converted into Broto to suit the Orchard brothers, being us. Broto is short for Brother Thomas. So there you go. Orchard trivia.

Nikon D200
28-80mm at 28mm

Vivitar 285hv at 1/1 to camera right into 43" reflective umbrella
Vivitar 285hv at 1/1 behind me with blue gel

Day Seventy One - Splashy

I've wanted to take a photo of a water droplet for quite some time and saw an old paint tray out the back with rainwater sitting in it this morning. I used an old juice pop-top to drip water into the tray and my left hand to push the shutter. Needless to say it took a few tries but I got there eventually!

Nikon D200
50mm f1.8

Vivitar 285hv at 1/2 to camera left into partially collapsed 43" reflective umbrella
Vivitar 285hv at 1/16th to camera right with blue gel

Day Seventy - Scouting

A bunch of us from uni went out to New Norfolk this morning so I could show them the abandoned hospital buildings that we're looking at as a location for a short film we have in the scripting stage. We're tossing around ideas for the script at the moment and are jumping from idea to idea pretty fast but there's a pretty solid pathway we're heading towards now. It's quite exciting.
We also needed a promo shot for a new website fellow filmmakers Dan Cosgrove and Angus Ashton are setting up which will also feature work from all of us.

More on that soon!

Nikon D200
35mm f2

Vivitar 285hv at 1/16th to camera left through 43" umbrella
Vivitar 285hv at 1/4 behind the group and the the right into 43" reflective umbrella

Day Sixty Nine - Dan Cosgrove

Dan's going to hate this photo. But I love it. Mainly because Willow Court is nicely framed in the background. More on this day in the Day Seventy description. Yeah I dropped the ball again and missed a day. So two photos on one day.

I've been busy!

Nikon D200
35mm f2

Day Sixty Eight - Anyone Can Do It If They Try

Once again I return to quoting Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job, and also photographing Max. I apologise if you're bored of seeing his face, or mine for that matter. My balcony is also the location once again providing the bokeh of North Hobart.

Nikon D200
35mm f2

Strobist Information if I remember correctly is...
Vivitar 285 hv to left at 1/16th through 43" umbrella
Vivitar 285hv to right at 1/6th into 43" reflective umbrella.
Triggered by Cybersyncs.

Day Sixty Seven - Katie <3

What more can I say other than i'm totally in love with her. =)

Nikon D200
35mm f2 at f2.8
Vivitar 285hv at 1/16th to camera left through 43" westcott umbrella

Day Sixty Six - Boat

My brother, Toby. Boty. Goat. Goatse. Whatever.

Nikon D200
35mm f2
Vivitar 285hv to camera left at 1/16th through Westcott 43" shoot-through umbrella.
Vivitar 285hv behind Toby at 1/16th with blue gel pointing towards camera.

Day Sixty Five - Revisited

This is somewhat or a reshoot of day twenty one. Taken this time with 35mm lens instead of 50mm. Also using a Westcott 43" shoot-through umbrella with a Vivitar 285hv on 1/16th to camera left. Also a little Achiever flash I got off ebay that is roughly equivalent to a Vivitar on 1/4. This one's behind me point up with a blue gell.

Long day. Feeling very tired and drained. I don't look too happy in this photo. But I actually am! Katie returned home yesterday so i'm pretty much over the moon with happiness.

I love her so much!! =)

Day Sixty Four - Bright Side

Looking on the bright side. Something I rarely seem to be able to do. I'm one of those people that always imagines the worst possible scenario of a threatening situation and convince myself it's going to happen. I really need to talk myself out of that mindset. It's definitely easier said than done. But I've had enough of it. Time to kick my brain into gear and start thinking more positively and optimistically. I hate my head sometimes.

Nikon D200
35mm f2
Vivitar 285hv at 1/2 into Westcott 43" reflective umbrella, semi collapsed.