Dave Frost Photography - Canvey Island

One bite at the apple

Dave Frost — Sun, 13 May 2012 16:48:08 +0000

It’s said that you only get one bite at the apple. Usually along with other such notions as “you only live once”, “life’s too short” and other similar nonsense.
After taking this shot I can categorically and most vigourously refute this as in fact, it took me several bites to get it looking like that.

Didn’t work quite as well as I had in mind, but I did spend less than 5 minutes taking it and less than half of that steam-rollering it through photoshop. I know what needs to be improved with regard to composition and lighting, but given my poor back at the moment, I really couldn’t be pfaffing around with snoots, reflectors and multiple lights (Still have that image in my head for a re-shoot).

Journey home – More testing of the trigger trap

Dave Frost — Wed, 09 May 2012 07:27:59 +0000

Further testing of the Mobile App, TriggerTrap. After a few false starts managed to keep it running till the battery ran out on a 63 mile journey home from work. Distance lapse trigger was used in preference of time-lapse. quality is plainly an issue on the iphone once rendering etc have taken their toll, but will certainly be interesting testing some of the other triggers with the SLR when the cables arrive.

Wet and Miserable

Dave Frost — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:05:09 +0000

Another wonderfully damp day in drought stricken Essex. Since the water companies announced a hosepipe ban, I don’t think that there’s been a single 24 hour period without rain. Half of Essex and Suffolk are currently underwater and the view from the window is becoming depressingly familiar.

Finch on a branch

Dave Frost — Thu, 03 May 2012 04:52:38 +0000

Apologies to bird people for not knowing what make and model this is. Was at my parents at the weekend and was astounded by the number of birds nicking peanuts and attacking the fat balls. Unfortunately, every time I went outside they flew off so I had to shoot from inside the conservatory. Was a dull day and I never had the tripod with me so the keeper per click ration was extremely low. Shot @ 300mm handheld, many shots were blurry, not only because the birds were extremely quick, but the feeders were blowing in the ferocious wind.

A trip to the doctors……

Dave Frost — Wed, 02 May 2012 11:07:45 +0000

Testing the new ‘Trigger Trap’ mobile app went better today than it did when I first installed it…. was looking forward to playing with a sequence of photos triggered by the distance lapse function, but was disappointed to find that it hadn’t actually taken any. Tried it on a very short trip to the doctors this morning on time lapse, and considering this was direct to the iphone rather than the SLR (waiting for cables to be delivered fro that one) wasn’t too bad a result (obviously could have done with a longer trip to make it a bvit more interesting and justify a soundtrack. Completely unedited – Just assembled with timelapseassembler

Indoor Fireworks

Dave Frost — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:43:30 +0000

Fairly sure you shouldn’t play with fireworks indoors but it was raining. Only had two that I found in a cupboard earlier, and they must have been really old as they fizzed rather than sparkled.

Net result was that I managed to balls up the exposure (they were seriously underexposed) so any editing has seriously degraded the IQ. Tried something different on this one – Created loads of layers and rotated each one a bit…… Might work for star trails but not so good with sparklers indoors…….

A delicate Orchid

Dave Frost — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:19:23 +0000

Kenko tubes, off camera flash and time to kill. A closeup look at the delicate petals of a purple orchid.

Coloured Smoke…..

Dave Frost — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 09:36:49 +0000

Keep being drawn to these to try new ways of editing them. Appreciate that this might be a little bit tedious to some, but it’s fascinating me. Tried a couple of ‘new’ things in post processing to see how they came out an quite pleased with the results (though I’m easily pleased).

Smoking

Dave Frost — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:08:55 +0000

First time playing with incense and flashguns with an extremely limited window of playtime. Minimal Post processing applied to these, the differences in colour I’m assuming are down to the different makes of flashgun and the camera auto white balance.

Smoking……

Dave Frost — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:46:10 +0000

First go at this – More to follow……