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September 29, 2005
Gordon NSW Australia 18:17
I shot eight photos today for the A Day on Earth project. This one is at an empty car dealer lot just after dusk. It's a 10 second exposure with a bit extra saturation added with Photoshop.
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September 28, 2005
Fenella and Mippy at Hyde Park
I ran into some friends of Helen on Saturday too.
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September 26, 2005
More photos from Saturday
I've added a couple of shots to my set from Saturday. Also be sure to check out:
James m's set
The Department's set
Polendino's set
love life live love's photos
tALSit di CoD's photos
and *hime*
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September 25, 2005
Sydney Photoblogger Meetup
I met up with the Sydney photobloggers group at The Art Gallery of New South Wales on Saturday. I photographed my self above with James who organised the meet. This was actually the first time I've been to the AGNSW and came away from it impressed with both the collection and the space (it really reminded me of a miniature Art Institute of Chicago in terms of the architecture.) I saw and liked a lot of Australian artists that I hadn't previously seen (I didn't note the artists' names, but will next time I promise.)
This was also my first big outing with the new Crumpler bag. It performed as well as I had expected - easy in and out, nice big strap and shoulder pad. The Department posted a great photo of my bag hard at work while I was having a long look at some art.
The rest of the photos are on flickr
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September 22, 2005
a day in life
Another flickr day in the life day. It actually turned out to be a rather interesting day. My employeer just least a new office (that's one train stop from where we live!!) and I had a chance to visit the space today. Then a few of us went out for lunch to farwell a colleage who is leaving the company. This shot was taken at the Gordon NSW train station. From 1 November, I won't be visiting this station very often. See the rest of my day at flickr
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September 18, 2005
crumpler seven million dollar home
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a short review about the Crumpler Seven Million Dollar Home camera bag. At the time I liked just about everything about the bag except the strap. I already had a Tallee bag and had become rather accustomed to the Quick Flick Buckle. I was really bummed that the new bags had a more traditional camera bag strap so I got a hold of the Crumpler Custom shop in Melbourne and they were more than happy to fit a Quick Flick Buckle to a Seven Million Dollar Home. (UPDATE March 2007 - Crumpler in Melbourne does not currently do this modification.) The result is pictured above. It's the closest thing to 'the perfect camera bag' I've been able to find. There's really only a couple of things I would change if I could.
The Tallee on the left is about the same height and depth as the 7 Million Dollar Home on the right. The big difference is that the new bag makes much more effective use of the depth (well that and it's heaps wider.) The Tallee has a bottom compartment ('the darkroom') that is only accessible from the front flap - this means that you can't take full advantage of the height of the Tallee - long lenses only fit in the bottom.
The deep Million Dollar Home easily fits an 80-200 f2.8 zoom lens (that's it on the left.) In the center compartment is an EOS1 face down with room for a medium sized lens mounted. Pleanty of room on the right for a lens and flash, or maybe a second camera body. The whole of the interior is 'loop' fabric so you can velcro the dividers anywhere you like.
You can even fit an 80-200 zoom (hood reversed) with a camera attached in the center compartment. The bag still closes easily like this and there is heaps of room for a couple more zooms and a flash. The blue flap on the front opens up to a good size pocket for battaries, CF cards or even
Everything else I love about Crumpler bags is unchanged. Heavy duty construction, styling that is more consistant with messenger bags than camera bags, heavy padding and lots of dividers making it easy to customise the interior.
I did say there are a couple things that I would change if I could:
First: replace the front quick release buckle. It's redundant. There is a large Velcro patch there. However, a secure clip closure is needed (particularly when you have a handle on the top.) For a bag this wide I would have preferred two clips, one on each corner of the front flap.
Second: it would be purple.
My original plan was to use the Seven Million Dollar Home when I needed to carry a lot of gear, and keep the Tallee for when I just needed a few things, but with the softer, less boxy construction of the Seven it collapses a bit when it's not fully loaded (reminds me of a Domke F2 bag I had years ago) so I really don't see myself using the Tallee much any more (watch for it on Ebay.) I'll replace it with a smaller Three or Four Million Dollar Home - if only Crumpler would make one in purple.
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September 17, 2005
Hey! it's like me!
A building (temporarily) dedicated to all the American expats in Sydney (I've heard there's something like 10,000 Americans in Sydney.)
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new crumpler bag, sahra and me
That's Sahra from Crumpler who modded a Seven Million Dollar Home bag (also pictured) for me (again, also pictured.) As you may have read here a couple of weeks ago, I dig the new style camera bags from Crumpler. They're less structured (not so boxy) then the older bags (like my Tallee) but have a more traditional camera bag type of a strap. I rang the custom Crumpler shop in Melbourne and Sahra here said "no worries!" (she is Australian after all) and for an extra 10 bucks Aussie, I got the old style strap. Now, I just need to get a 430EX and a 17-40F4.0L to fill this bad boy up!
More photos of the bag loaded with gear coming soon..
Thank You Sahra and all the fine people at Crumpler!!
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September 15, 2005
Braeside Walk
That's Amy walking along side Govetts Leap Brook in the NSW Blue Mountains. This image was shot on film and scanned by a one hour photo lab when they developed the film. Most labs will do that these days, in fact you don't even need to get prints made, just ask them to develop the film and put them on CD, no 4x6 prints needed (unless you want them of course.)
Crumpler Update:
The Melbourne custom shop has modified a 7 Million Dollar Home for me. They put a courier style strap on it (should be attached to the existing loops on the original bag) and I'm picking it up this Saturday. Yay!
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September 11, 2005
car in logging camp left side
yeah, photography has been feeling a bit like a car crash lately. Been going through photos like this from last weekend I'm starting to post some of them. (I think I over did the unsharp mask on this one - it's better viewed large.) I shot some film too with the EOS1. The scans the photo lab did are so-so. May post some of those later.
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September 07, 2005
3801 at Tarana v2
I'm new to this RAW stuff and redid my conversion of this shot. Increased the exposure about half a stop in the convesion. seems to have kept the cloud detail. I boosted the saturation too but may have gone too far with the saturation. This actually gives me some hope for the rest of the shots from last weekend. Maybe they aren't as bad as I thought...
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September 06, 2005
3801 again
On our way home from a weekend trip to the Blue Mountains, coming through Tarana and the whole town was at the train station. 3801 was due through in a matter of minutes, so we grabbed our cameras and got a few shots. All in all it was a rather disappointing photo weekend for me (Amy got some really nice shots.) I'm still going through mine and might post some more later...
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