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Got my 1D back

Vern — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 05:54:37 +0000

My 1D recently had a shutter blow out, not great after only 78k shots but very happy to have her back!

Camping Photos

Vern — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 12:52:09 +0000

The Perth Crash

Vern — Wed, 04 May 2011 11:47:23 +0000

This was one of those right place, right time moments for what was one of the biggest crashes in V8 Supercars history. Firstly Steve and Karl are relatively ok, Karl has burns to his hands that need some attention. More on that here.

I had been getting a couple of shots on the grid and once the cars started their warm up lap I quickly ran around the back of the pits and jumped up in the grandstand to get some shots of the start. Still had it in manual mode from the grid and just had a second to set my levels and the race started, initially shooting the leaders as they launched and then seconds later felt this huge hit of heat on the side of my face, looked to my right and this was the first shot I got off;

Just kept smashing the shutter button without even checking levels, they were slightly under exposed but I think that actually worked out better for most of them considering the light coming from the fire ball. You can see the twirl of air as the heat of the explosion headed upwards.

I didn’t see Steve get out of his car, but he got out first. Karl took some time getting out which left everyone holding their breath.

Crews from all over the place jumped the pit wall and started attacking the fire with any extinguishes they could get their hands on.

The fire itself was out pretty quick, first shot 10:39:24, last shot was 10:39:58.

Video here and the in-car shot;

V8 Supercars Skateboard Video

Vern — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 02:34:38 +0000

What I love about this video is not only that Joel actually managed to pull it off and build a V8 Supercar powered skateboard, but this was shot on a Canon 5D and it looks superb!

Simply shot and nicely edited. Looks great!

Simple web apps for shopping, Lenshero.com gets it right

Vern — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 02:26:13 +0000

The amount of times I’ve found myself in a shopping centre browsing for products thinking to myself, why can’t they just build an online app for this? It would make it so much easier to find what I want. A fridge is the perfect example. Why doesn’t fridge shops have an online app where I can plug in my dimensions, select what I want, then just show me what fits.

Being a programmer makes this extra frustrating because it really quite a simple thing to build if you have the content. The content is easy to, that’s just however many hours for a temp to plug it all in.

Then you come across a site like lenshero.com. Ahhh, now THAT’s how you do it! Easy.

If you want to buy a lens, tell the site what camera you have, what lens you want, or what you already own, and they show you the results. Simple. Love it!

The Top Gear Shot

Vern — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:11:08 +0000

My wife recently bought her dream car, a nice 2005 Toyota Prado. Great car, low kms and amazingly had never ever been off road! Poor car, never experiencing the dirt it was built for.

So only a few weeks after it had joined it’s new owners, we took it camping in the Barrington Top in NSW, where there just happened to be a mountain to climb.

I got this shot from the top, where funnily enough there is an old caravan that someone dragged up there.

I made sure I got the light levels right for the sky so that I could get in the sky and clouds and then after a bit of low level light adjustments and a bit of vignetting this is what we came out with.

Reminds me of that typical Top Gear style shot.

Dust storm hits Sydney

Vern — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:12:05 +0000

This is what I woke up to a few minutes ago

http://www.news.com.au/gallery/0,23607,5060682-5007150-13,00.html

And for the white balance, no colour correction here!!

Canon 5 Comp, it’s here!

Vern — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:39:26 +0000

It has arrived, the Canon 5 competition box with the 5 briefs inside. There is 3 fairly standard props, one open concept and a brief around a lens technique. Very cool, can’t wait to get started, have a few ideas already.

My photo in Canon Photochains

Vern — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:54:18 +0000

http://www1.canon.com.au/worldofeos/photochains/browse/chainView.aspx?pc_cid=108#/2

Canon is running a campaign around the public uploading photos to create a chain linked by common ideas, my photo was selected for one of them which is pretty cool.