We make our choices, right? (No, straight...) Right!
Sixteen : Day Eight | Thursday September 22nd, 2016
"Sixteen" is the focal length... I'm using the lovely Sony a7RMk2 with my Sony 16-35mm f/4.0 lens at 16mm... 16mm is a challenging focal length, it allows you to bend and stretch as you see fit - my feet aren't really that big. Honest.
I've included a snapshot of the 16mm factor, below, if you're interested.
Maybe I'm obsessed with flight?
Sixteen : Day Seven | Thursday September 21st, 2016
Today was a day of work, mostly, I was sorting out some bits and pieces in the office and had to lay out this lot... Drones, Quads, Trouble... Whatever you call them, I like them. I'm not great at flying them, for instance, I dropped that small green one into a large pot of water that was sitting on the sink - it lived. I made a work-day bet with myself, that, if I wanted to go to the kitchen for a coffee, I had to fly the small green one out of my office, through the house, under the chair in the lounge and into the kitchen to land on my espresso machine - it kinda worked once or twice.
A fun departure, sometimes.
I'm a freelance social media and community manager, I work from wherever I am - mostly - and 90% of that "wherever I am" is home. This means that I can schedule in things to do during my regular working day, which is mostly broken in two - mornings and evenings, with the middle of the day mostly working on relevant projects or, for the last four years, this old falling down house. We're about to start a major renovation, but before we do, there are a few things that we've been advised to do, one of those is to replace the north boundary fence - simple process aside from the entire north boundary being set in concrete... Most of it I removed with a massive crow-bar, but this last bit - the entire back yard - I had to hire in a smallish jack-hammer...
Sixteen : Day Six | Thursday September 20th, 2016
You feel like the work is never done, that's because it is never done.
School holidays started today, Mr 6 and Mr 2 were at home with me, the photograph for today was going to be on the walk to the park - we were headed there for a Basketball match (Seb won, 2:1) ...anyways, we were low on time, so there was no walk, just a quick drive to the park / shops, so we parked atop the shopping centre, where I used to hang with a couple of mates - well, not hang, but after band practice we'd get Maccas and sit up there until security came and booted us out - I wish I had a photo from then, the city skyline was perfectly visible, now, not so much... Transitional Richmond, hand in hand with things like "The Walled City" etc...
Sixteen : Day Five | Thursday September 19th, 2016
I miss and I don't miss those days...
Yesterday sixteen took us close to the edge, a photograph of a coffee drinker, drinking tea from a Starbucks mug - so many things wrong with that photograph (not to mention the 16mm lens being used for a portrait! bend+stretch)
This little journey of single camera+lens combo is making me think in stories already, the guy started in his office, where he spends a lot of time, took him on a wander around his neighbourhood to "the walled city" then back into the office for a late night tea drinking session... Today we're exposing, slowly, coffee and a quick customer service session before heading out to mess about in the mostly rainy backyard with the kids... We might try break some more concrete - who knows?
Sixteen : Day Four | Thursday September 18th, 2016
What? Oh, it's just a project inspired by a bloke named Peter from ProTog, a great camera shop here in Melbourne. I use one camera / lens (I've chosen the a7rMk2 and the 16-35mm at 16mm)
I've chosen to use any type of lighting and I'm trying to build all of the images into a sequence with a story.
Enough for now.