Cockle.Bay.Nightlights

Last month, during the Christmas season, Brian, Chris and I headed out to the city to take photos of the Christmas ornaments. It was really pretty, and as always, it's always very similar to other years, and it's basically just down back to the photographer to make the area look different and better than what it actually is. But none-the-less, I did my best once again and tried to make my photos look good with whatever I have on hand (not that I have millions of lenses and bodies to choose from anyway).

But regardless of how good or bad the photographer may be, they have to do one thing before heading out to an outdoor area to take photos. And what is it? Check the weather. Yep, check the weather. I did it this time, but I did it two days before the night, and it was wrong! It said that the rain was meant to be on the next day, and it wouldn't start until late afternoon, but you know what? It started right when we started taking photos. It couldn't have rained during the day, it couldn't have rained the next day, it had to rain right there and then. So yea, a note for everyone, check the weather before you even leave your house!~

Although it rained much earlier than expected, we got some decent photos with tripod and all, and the tree was just a fabulous as 2011's.

The Christmas tree at Cockle Bay.. Looks very similar to the one in the previous year.

Let There Be LIGHT! *raises hands on the unlit candles*

Heyas!
Well, it's been a while (5 days ago) since I posted a blog. Well, nothing has happened much, but I have surely been taking lots of photos! Well, on my first blog here, I have a red rose (right?). Now, I had just been borrowing lots of roses (only 2 really, what an exaggeration!), one red and one black. The red one always looked better, but this time, I used the black one in a different way! Normally, people just took normal portraits of flowers in a vase or alone. But this time I sort of made it a bit glowy and dreamy. I reckon it turned out pretty good, but as it was my first go at doing this, I'm pretty sure I can find ways to improve it!
Here are some photos. And until next time!

LightPainting session

Hello,
Today I had some light paintings done. For the last few times, I used a torch and there were very few imaginative ways of painting. But today, I went to the hops to try and find some cellophane, but instead of finding cellophane, I found some glow sticks! They sounded fantastic. I remembered that previously I saw some other light painters and they made some really good pictures out of glow sticks. So, the I tried it out to see if it was really that good, or did they photoshop the whole thing. So I tired and honestly, the outcome didn't turn out exactly great. The light was soft, it was concentrated light. OMG, it was just a waste of time, effort and most importantly MONEY! They costed me $2 each! One green, orange and pink. But in some picture they did turn out pretty good. I mean as in not aiming for some perfect pictures, but juts swinging the glow stick in circles, doing some twists, yea, that's about how GOOD it can turn out. There are some pictures below to show how I went. These were the "not-so-bad" pictures.
Anyway, got to go now. Blog again sometime!