Time Machine

Time Machine, originally uploaded by Anthony Jay.

I know its been ages since my last post. I have been far too busy at work for my own good so have not had much time to myself. But the other Saturday morning I was awake early so set out to get the sunrise.
While on my way I had a play with some photos taking whilst driving. I held the camera in my right hand and steered with my left. Being as it was 4.30am their was not many cars around and I was driving slowly.
To get the shot I used aperture priority set at f/11 and the camera choose a shutter speed of 3 secs. I edited my raw file in photoshop, then using layers to first darken the sky I then removed noise and grain. The next layer was for a high pass filter to sharpen the image, and finally I flattened the image then overlaid the same image to boost saturation and contrast. HOpe you like the REsults

Anthony Jay

An Evening with Howard R

I have just had a wonderful evening playing around with some off camera flash. My mate Howard came along and we spent a few hours running the batteries down on our flash guns. If you read my post a few weeks ago I shoot a graffiti wall in Rayleigh. I have been itching to get back there with my flash gun and try some new shoot.
Until I finish those shots off, here is the last shot of the evening, while walking back to the car the sunset was to good to miss. A few snaps latter and I had this shot.


Hope you like it

Anthony Jay

Its June! And the worst thing about it is the dull weather. I have been totally uninspired recently when behind the lens, its been hard work to even pick up my camera. I did try to revisit some old unused photos but the creative fairy had flown away (or washed away more like.)
So to cheer us all up I thought I would show of an old shot! This was taken on my kitchen table. I pushed the table against the door and draped a white sheet down the door and across the table. I stood an upside down glass in a saucepan and positioned another glass right way up on top. Put a few blueberries in the glass then poured water into the glass from a jug while rolling frames off on the camera.
The lighting was two static video heads. ie constant light not strobes. One camera left and one camera right. I wanted to get a real light blown out look from the lighting to let the water and fruit movement make the shot.

Happy days

Anthony Jay