Fabulous skies

Today we had the most fabulous blue skies and amazing cloud formations, well for half the day anyway, then it clouded over completely.

Factories - Fonterra (Dennington) and Murray Goulburn(Koroit)

I think I might of added a bit too much grain to these ones.

a bit of fun with photoshop

This is the main street of town. I thought I would replace the T&G building with the Port fairy lighthouse. Now I'm thinking I might turn the street into sea. Humm, stay tuned.

Factories - Murray Goulburn

I have decided to do a series of photos of the local factories. Why you might ask, well I find them really interesting. Apparently other people don't, but hey they are my photos so i don't care. Actually I'm just being pig headed and want to prove the point that boring subjects can make interesting photos. Anyway, this is the Murray Goulburn Milk Processing plant at Koroit. I took this photo at about 8:30 at night. I really wanted to capture the plumes of smoke. i think i might try it again earlier in the night when there is still some blue in the sky. I desaturated the photo, and added some a little noise.

Teenagers

What happens to kids as they approach the teenage years? My girl is about to turn eleven and she has the most amazing mood swings. One minute she is happy and really loving, the next she is crying and then cranky. I love her dearly, but how are we going to get through 5 years of this. Please tell me it isn't too bad. Anyway tonight I made this image to represent all the emotions swirling around her. It did it really quickly, but I was pretty happy with how it turned out. It is just a photo of her overlaid over a photo of a tubular park slide.

Warrnambool Camera Club Blog

last week I set up a blog for the Warrnambool Camera Club - check it out www.warrnamboolcameraclub.blogspot.com

A few photos from my TAFE course

I'm studying a diploma of Visual Arts at TAFE - I only started at the beginning of the year and I'm only doing 2 subjects per semester so it will probably take me 10 years to finish. One of the subjects I'm doing is digital photography. These ar a few photos I used for my first semester assessment.







This one was taken on Anzac day at the 11 am service. I went to the dawn service, but I didn't think it would be the appropriate time to pull out my camera and tripod. I did get to go and take some sunrise photos after it though. This next photo is one of them. Actually this is three exposures combined. I have tried to use HDR programs to do this, but I'v never had much success, so this for this I just used layers and masks etc to combine them.









Joey looking all rock chick. She was so good letting be take photos of her. I wanted to practise the high key kinda look. The focus is probably more on her hair than her eyes, but all in all I was pretty happy with it.







And this is Mike, my photography teacher.