Another Exposure

Hey

So I've been researching a bunch more into the slow exposure side of things. It's a lot of fun just to read and think about. I did go out and practice some more. I went to the beach and tried to shoot the shore line with a ship a long it. Personally I'm a bit fond of the outcome. I think i would prefer too shoot these black and white images in a square image but I don't think I will for these shots yet.
For your curiosity, here is the image.

I would enjoy some critiquing or comments on it, but it's not that important.

I've mostly been scoping around different areas and finding scenes I would want to shoot.
I have a remote shutter in the mail, I look forward to being able to have more control over the outcome.

I've also been working on something completely different.
At my area of work we have a new office in Charlestown that has opened. I've been doing some building shots for the brochure and whatnot. Although I've never really shot a building before. It was a fun little thing to do. I also discovered using the stacked filters gives a better effect on the building, no blow outs in the sky and i can get dreamy clouds.
There are two shots, the first which was my initial attempt and the second was the requested shot by the owner.

I am a fan of the first one, but the owner likes the second one as far as i can tell.
I'm not really fussed it's his choice. I like them both so it's not a bad outcome regardless of which one is chosen.


Thanks for reading
-Bear

Experiment

Afternoon

I spent today driving around different parts of Newcastle playing with a stacked polarized filter and linear filter combo in an attempt to try my hand at previously mentioned slow exposures.
I don't have a remote shutter so each exposure was at 30 seconds maximum, admit ably I'm not over the moon with the photos i took, but i imagine it is a good draft for a start.
I'm really looking forward to going out and shooting more.
There are a few locations i have in my memory to explore and a let more i want to find.
If you happen to know any good water scape styled areas, mangroves, oyster traps, old broken jetty's. That sort of thing, please comment about them

Now I'll post two images from today.

This one was my favorite, i did learn that my lens was very dirty and i had to clean a lot of dust off the image.
I would love to go at this again and work on it more, a more cloudy day, longer exposure, those sorts of things.

This one was down near my house, some of the houses by the lake have private jetty's. I just wandered a long and took a few shots. This was the first experiment with the lens when i started getting excited now knowing what i could do with it.

Well that is all i have to say for now.
I will be out shooting as much as possible.

-Bear

Slow Return

Afternoon,

I should apologize to those who have stumbled upon here for the what seems complete abandonment.
I'm still here, don't fret.
I have not been able to do anything creative in about a month or three. I still want to do a whole lot more in modeling and 3D but it would seem i will be leaning much more towards photography in my next few posts.

I may post some images of past events just so i can keep a log, possibly even use this blog as a reference for my university journal.

Today i am going out in the big bad world to shoot some slow exposure shots, mimicking a old school medium format camera style. I'm really excited as it's my favorite style of photography and I've never had a chance to try it.

Wish me luck.

The Montage Sequence, Yeah?

Hey guys

So I've been a bit distracted as of yet, having some troubles with Voxel effect. I really wanted to do some pixel styled animations but I cannot seem to get it to pixelate text. I can get other objects done fine though, so maybe I will just play with some pixels while I wait.

I did however watch another tutorial and have a crack at it. Unfortunately it is again pretty similar to the video aside from a change of font and text. The good note is I learned a heap from it! Like how to use the fraction and random effector, so the spinny effect.

I'm eager to take what I've learned and make a whole new animation but I've been a bit empty on ideas lately or the things I wanna do I can't figure out. Which is always annoying.
Although now I've kinda got a small idea on how to use After Effects as well.

Here's the video:

And the Link to the blog and tutorial.

Hope you guys like it, although all the credit goes to The Gorilla

Thanks for taking an interest.


The Bear

Needs more glow

Hey all

So I just completed a new render, It's all thanks to a tutorial by the Gorilla again. I know, soon I will use all this reading and make a video from scratch rather than follow these tutorials.
Although for now I'm rather pleased with the outcome!

Aside a few glitches like the left wall(I had no idea how to make the scene) and the light in the orbs seems to poke to a specific side rather than illuminate around the orbs.

Feedback would be appreciated, if you have the time.

Regards
Bear

A new render

Howdy all.


So I've been busting my backside lately working on different things and playing around.

Well, it's been mostly just play. I'm still learning a lot in Cinema 4D and I keep getting amazed by all the things i could do eventually.

I followed a tutorial on Grey Scale Gorilla's blog and came out with something that was, well i liked it. It did seem a bit dark though i may have needed a fill light over the top.

So now i will try to attach a video, bear with me while i try and upload it. I'm still getting the hang of this here blog thing!


Also it doesn't help that I've just got a copy of New Vegas and am being quickly absorbed into that!


Thanks for reading!

Progress

Afternoon.

Okey a few things to go over.

First up, my domain name jlkocher.com is not working and I being an aparant idiot can't get it going, so for now it's a the blogspot domain. No skin off my back as i just wanna get this thing started.

Secondly have become absorbed into the realms of 3D render software such as Cinema 4D and Realflow.
Admittedly more of my time is spent in Cinema 4D. It's a lot of fun and I'm really enjoying learning it.
Thanks to a blog: http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/ I've been learning a lot about the program.  It's still for the most part baffling and confusing for me, everything i have created has been basic and somewhat ugly but i am proud of my progress and as soon as i work out how, i will post some of my works.

Thanks for reading

Bear