Today at work I was able to go to the Westpac Centre to see the launch of “Jock”: The Story of Jock McHale, Collingwood’s Greatest Coach. After the panel discussion, which I was there to video, the VIPs presented for photos by the media. I, the interloper, jumped in for a couple of shots.
After the event was over Lou Richards talked to the media outside. Strange that though the floor was open to questions during the event the media seemed to hold their questions for Lou until after. I was on my way out, to head back to work and decided to grab a couple of snaps of Lou Richards.
A perk of the job, I sometimes get to be in the right place at the right time.
I haven’t yet written about last Sunday… the nature of the events may well be enough to push my blog to MA15+ status. But the Sunday just gone was relatively calm in comparison.
The day started with a trip to the Werribee Mansion for a photography workshop organised through the camera club. It was a great morning and while I didn’t get any great shots I learned a bunch and now have a thirst to do some more workshops with the people who ran yesterday’s. We learnt about how to see light and how to manipulate the light.
The most important lesson of the day was that we shouldn’t be hunting locations, we should always be hunting light.
One anecdote included Ken Duncan going bush for three months, and returning with only six photos that he considered usable. We were told its because Duncan is a location-based shooter and has to persist at a location until the light is right. A landscape photographer has to consider the time of day, the weather and the season (which alters the light quality).
It was also a fun morning. The instructors are masters of the one liner and they know their stuff. Can’t wait to learn more.
That was only the morning. In the afternoon we went to Sue’s house for dinner and over the road to The East Brunswick Club for the Global Hip-hop Collective. Hip-hop not being our thing we were there to support a friend who was performing.
We also finally got to meet Ameriha a friend of Suez’d who we have heard much about but never met before, we also met her new boyfriend Tom. Lana made us all some amazing pizza for dinner.
I, of course, took my camera along for the show. It was so dark in there I bumped the ISO all the way to 3200 and even higher to 6400, so there is a fair bit of grain in the shots. But they captured the moment. It was an interesting night, though we didn’t stay the whole evening.
It was still a late night though so today I was so very tired I thought I could have slept at my desk at work. No more late nights for we oldies.
After looking for a while David decided he would like to get a new camera. Goodness knows I have spent enough money on my hobby and he’s been like the second child using hand-me-downs when we go out on photo days with our friends so it was about time he got something new for himself.
He chose a Sony α55 it has some pretty cool features and hopefully he’ll soon upload some photos so I can show you what he does with it :D
Yesterday afternoon we went on a small trek to Werribee South to try it out and I took my camera along too. Here are my photos from the short trip.
Yellow Pole
Fishing
Poor starfish
5 knots
And then later in the night, around 10pm David decided he wanted to take his camera night shooting, it had had time to charge properly by then. So we went out, all the while me protesting as it was raining on the way into the city, but on arrival it was a slow drizzle so we took some shots from Birrarung Marr and then from the Docklands.
Cityscape from Birrarung Marr
Docklands by night
