Putting things off...

In 5.5 days time, I will be presenting a lecture in front of (possibly) a couple of hundred people.

The lecture will be on how our perception and memory are inherently flawed and how photos influence our memories (no really - it will be interesting I am sure!).

Reading through the biographies for the other speakers is funny...   All of them have photographed professionally for all sorts of publications, they have reported on wars, have their own art galleries and all sorts of qualifications.  My bio says "Mykl has taken a photo before".

A little intimidating actually.

So needless to say, instead of actually working on my lecture, I am writing a blog post that no-one will read...
I am procrastinating so badly that I just spent the last hour sending work emails!!

So with no further ado... and no relevance at all...  here a photo Blythe took of me photographing the China TV building during the last trip to Beijing.

Photoshoot play....

The boys and I joined in with a Toowoomba Photographic Society photoshoot over the weekend... the boys in front of the camera and lots of people, including me behind it.

So playing in the old Toowoomba rail yard and then in an alley... this is some of what I got....

Details:  READ NO FURTHER UNLESS YOU ARE A CAMERA GEEK!  All of these were shot with a D7000 with an SB900 flash sitting somewhere.  The flash was generally set on manual output - most around half of the full output...
The camera was in manual.  Shutter speed at 250 (highest shutter sync speed), the aperture was determined by what effect i wanted the flash to have and how dark I wanted the background to be.....  flashes were triggered with cheap Yongnuo triggers...  I can throw in some things about how all this works if anyone is interested....

illumination

topic for the challenge for the photo meeting - illumination.
So here are Izak and Alexander starring as...
"the only people who are handy that I can convince to be models for me!!".