Day Seventy Eight - Cutie Cups

Today was Katie's birthday so we all went out for dinner and it was awesome. Afterwards we munged on cupcakes from Cutie Cups which were amazing. Really. So goooood!

Nikon D200
35mm f2 at f2.2

Day Seventy Seven - No Wankers

Shot a photo for gibbo at The Brisbane Hotel (Best fucking pub in Tassie) today for an upcoming half page ad in a local zine called A Fine Line. Gipsy wanted a photo of this sign that was stuck to the door as the ad. I figured the door was a pretty damn boring backdrop so I hung it above the bar and lit sign and the bottles with a Vivitar 285 at 1/16th into a 43" reflective umbrella.

The ad's being published in black and white, therefore the photo's black and white.

Nikon D200
35mm f2 at f2.2
Vivitar 285hv at 1/16th to camera left into 43" reflective umbrella

Day Seventy Six - Kodak Retinette

My dad got this little fella for me from Adelaide for $5. It takes 35mm film which is nice and easy to get hold of and develop and it's also capable of taking some really nice photos. I'm going to shoot a few rolls and no doubt you'll see what comes out of it! I'm excited.

The idea of getting my darkroom set up is looking pretty positive too. I ran into Pete at arts school a couple of days ago and he asked if I was still keen on getting it all organised. Of course I said yes and he's getting the equiptment together from his parent's house as soon as he can/can be bothered. Hopefully that's sooner rather than later!

Nikon D200
50mm f1.8 at f4
ISO 200 at 1/40th
Vivitar 285hv at 1/16th above right into 43" reflective umbrella
Vivitar 285hv at 1/16th behind left diffused with 2 sheets of paper

Day Seventy Five - Hey Love

I would love to have set up a flash or two for this photo but it was kind of candid. It's Katie's birthday tomorrow!! =)

Nikon D200
35mm f2 at f2
ISO 400 at 1/60th

Day Seventy Four - Eyes Like Pluto

I really love katie's cat, even though I call him a her all the time. It's really hard for me to see any cat as a male. To me they're all female. That probably came out sounding really disgusting.

I love how this one came out. His eyes are so awesome. He's so curious!

Nikon D200
35mm f2

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