Tuesday 26 April 2016

Thursday 3 March 2016

Wednesday 2 March 2016

50 x 50 x 50 Number Forty Three

Another self portrait this time with my whole face. Playing with diffused flash and white balance adjustments in Lightroom

50 x 50 x 50 Number Forty Two

Something fresh. spot the pun


Thursday 25 February 2016

50 x 50 x 50 Number Thirty Seven

The story is that the services of a herald were used to come up with this design. The red lion rampant because the school is in Kenya and the eagle head because of the mythical Griffin which has the body of a lion and the head of an eagle. The two bugles are for the school band. The colours correspond to the School uniform. The Stars in the background because Starehe sounds like starry.


Tuesday 23 February 2016

50 x 50 x 50 Number Thirty Five

A little play with focus



50 x 50 x 50 Number Thirty Four

Moon rise over the neighbourhood. Didn’t quite get the moon in proper focus and due to the lighting situation used HDR in lightroom


Sunday 21 February 2016

50 x 50 x 50 Number Thirty Three

The Nairobi Skyline from Uluru park is one photo I have wanted to do for years and today I finally did it! The 50mm tight crop meant I had a small area to choose and decided on the Iconic KICC and the tallest in the CBD Times Tower. Post in Lightroom

Saturday 20 February 2016

50 x 50 x 50 Number Thirty Two

I have done few portraits yet the 50mm is a "portrait" lens. This was originally a head and shoulders shot but cropped it to remove distractions in the background. It was Just about sunset and the golden hour lighting gave me something nice to play with and I took advantage of the opportunity. Post in Lightroom. Model: Elsie



50 x 50 x 50 Number Thirty One

Poinsettia. Had to look for that name. Quite a number around here



Thursday 18 February 2016

50 x 50 x 50 Number Thirty

 This time I actually caught the sun going down and I usually like doing deep silhouettes for a sunset


Wednesday 17 February 2016

50 x 50 x 50 Number Twenty Nine

Took me a while but here is the ubiquitous sunset. Too many buildings around so I couldn’t get a horizon. The next best thing was this cloud formation

Tuesday 16 February 2016

50 x 50 x 50 Number Twenty Eight

As you may have noticed I like taking pics of things around the house. This time I go for an unlit candle.

Monday 15 February 2016

Sunday 14 February 2016

Saturday 13 February 2016

50 x 50 x 50 Number Twenty Five

Family portrait time with my Bro and niece. Used on Camera flash as it was what I had at the time, 1/125 f/8

Friday 12 February 2016

50 x 50 x 50 Number Twenty Four

Like watching grass grow you say? Literally… They were shining lights on to make it do so.


Wednesday 10 February 2016

50 x 50 x 50 Number Twenty Two

A street scene from Aveiro in Portugal.


50 x 50 x 50 Number Twenty One

Sneaking another in before the deadline where I am. Portrait time again and some high ISO work as I didn’t carry a tripod


Tuesday 9 February 2016

50 x 50 x 50 Number Twenty

Just give me the light… It is not yet midnight where I am so I have made it just in time :)


Saturday 6 February 2016

50 x 50 x 50 Number Eighteen

Over the Austrian Alps. It was quite misty today hence had to point down to get the clearest shot I could at 1/320 and f/9. I retouched and the results are here below

Friday 5 February 2016

50 x 50 x 50 Number Seventeen

Overhead plate shot of my breakfast specialty. This series would have been incomplete without this.

50 x 50 x 50 Number Sixteen

16/50 Just managed to sneak this one in before midnight. 1/4000 f/1.8 Still a bit overexposed in parts at the fastest shutter speed I could do. Will do some retouching in Lightroom and the results are below.


Tuesday 2 February 2016

Sunday 31 January 2016

50 x 50 x 50 Number Twelve

Left this one till late. A first experiment in Long exposure. Will have to learn how to stop the lights overwhelming the image.Also tried to get as much symmetry as I could. Got a tripod to steady things and kept the shutter open for 30 seconds and for detail closed the aperture to f/20

Saturday 30 January 2016

50 x 50 x 50 Number Eleven

Fridge magnets. More use of focus points and shallow depth of field. 1/60 f/2.5


Friday 29 January 2016

50 x 50 x 50 Number 10

Somethings cooking... I was more focused (pun intended) on the cooking so it may look a bit soft in places. You can say it didn't quite 'wok' out :) This is also my first using flash bounced off the ceiling. 1/80 f/2.8

50 x 50 x 50 Number Nine

Late post due to bad internet where I was last night. Another Portrait. Today's model is my mum. It was was her birthday yesterday so made it extra special. I took this one at dusk and played with the settings to get something done with low light. 1/60 f/2.8 ISO800

Wednesday 27 January 2016

50 x 50 x 50 Number Eight

Somebody recently asked me if the camera can take selfies. Challenge accepted! Used natural light through a window against my face. I like detail and a little darkness so I underexposed a bit and closed up the aperture. 1/125 f /6.3

Tuesday 26 January 2016

50 x 50 x 50 Number Seven

I wanted to get more in focus so closed down the aperture a bit. Pictures of flowers are almost cliche and who am I to be left out :) 1/125 f/13


Monday 25 January 2016

50 x 50 x 50 Number Six

Something that screams Kenyan. I liked this one but the sensitivity was a bit too high at ISO2000 so I had to fix that a bit. 1/125 f/4. It is not fully sharp but not too blurry and I like the amount of detail.

Sunday 24 January 2016

50 x 50 x 50 Number Five

Managed to sneak one in today to keep things going. Something that’s always around the house. 1/125 f/4

Saturday 23 January 2016

50 x 50 x 50 Number Four

4/50 It’s a full moon tonight! Revisting something I had done earlier and incorporating it into the project. 1/250 f/8 Another crop

Friday 22 January 2016

50 x 50 x 50 Number Three

3/50 Stooped down to get a close up of the Rhodes grass. It was pretty sunny and windy so I moved the shutter speed to 1/4000 and used f/2.8 which made for the bokeh effect. Small confession - I cropped this one a bit :)