Hi everyone,
Flashback 1 “Across the River” Porto
https://www.flickr.com/photos/leighkemp/51046159466/in/dateposted-public/lightbox/
Flashback 2 “From the Bridge” Porto
https://www.flickr.com/photos/leighkemp/51046169821/in/dateposted-public/lightbox/
Kind regards,
Leigh
Hi folks,
Hope your not getting too bored with all my shots of Bognor. Not much else I can photograph at the moment. Olympus PEN-F and Lumix 35-100mm.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/leighkemp/51043979836/in/dateposted-public/lightbox/
Kind regards,
Leigh
Hi folks,
More Bognor Regis 🙂 Olympus PEN-F and Lumix 35-100mm.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/leighkemp/51043479357/in/dateposted-public/lightbox/
Kind regards,
Leigh
Hi folks,
“The Jewel in the Crown”. I’ve been looking for one of these Swarovski Crystal Temptations gold and crystal Biplanes for ages and I finally found one at the right price as the centerpiece of my Royal Flying Corp display dedicated to my late Grandfather. Isn’t she beautiful! 🙂
Kind regard
Leigh
A painterly work of Chichester Canal.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/leighkemp/51033418027/in/dateposted-public/lightbox/
Best wishes,
Leigh
Hi folks,
As the title says, another day another video 🙂 . Hope it’s of use to someone. Note: THIS VIDEO CONTAINS A FEW FLASHING IMAGES.
Kind regards
Leigh
Hi folks,
Building on Bognor seafront. Another shot with my PEN-F and amazing little 12-32mm Lumix lens. Man I love this gem of a lens. 🙂 . It’s seems almost impossible to get a shot round here without at least one seagull in it. This time they’re perched on the roof whilst the pigeons have claimed the cheaper accommodation on the ledge for their own. 🙂
https://www.flickr.com/photos/leighkemp/51026021643/in/dateposted-public/lightbox/
Kind regards to all,
Leigh
Hi everyone, as I guess most of you know I love to get all the gear that I need for a shoot into the smallest lightest bag that I can find to do the job, in this case one of my older Tamrac Digitrek bags, a nice small well made bag which I’ve had for many years now. I’ve fitted my Heroclip to the carrying handle and it’s held in place during transit by one of the two side buckle clips passing over it so that it doesn’t slip around.
The bag is quite versatile and has an outside pocket in which I’ve stored my intervalometer and a most vital (and cheapest) 🙂 piece of kit, a section cut from a neoprene mouse mat which is a really useful if one gets a filter and/or lens hood stuck.
In the front zip up pocket I have stored my tiny Nikon Coolpix A100 with Joby mini tripod fitted, an SDHC card case, an 82 mm lens cap for my wide angle hoods, 2 spare camera batteries, 2 spare AAA batteries for the intervalometer, my GPS data logger and (in the red bag) my grey/white and black cards.
With the cards unpacked.
The inside comprises of a zip up transparent pocket in which I’ve stored several step up rings, a cleaning cloth, some lens wipes and the lanyard for the colour balance cards. In the main compartment I have my E-M1 camera plus VF-4 (right angle adjustable) electronic viewfinder (really useful for low down shots) which saves my old aching legs and back 🙂 , two lenses, my 12-32mm Lumix and my 9-18mm M.Zuiko and, in another one of my small red drawstring bags, two metal wide angle lens hoods to fit my ND filters.
With the hoods unpacked.
The bag is very compact for travelling as you can see from this shot of me holding it.
Using the Heroclip to hang the bag from one of my lightweight tripods both for added stability for the tripod and to keep the bag and its contents off of wet ground or, for that matter, hanging it from anything!. 🙂
This is my heaviest loadout at approx. 4 1/2 pounds but, not shown here, the bag also has two belt loops on the back of the bag to help distribute the weight. Stick my filter pouch into a jacket pocket or on my belt and I’m good to go. 🙂
Kind regards,
Leigh
Hi folks,
To pass some time I’ve been doing some more tests with my K&F concept ND filters, long exposures, noise reduction, my intervalometer and custom white balance. I was keen to see what happened colour cast and image quality wise when I stacked two of my filters, my ND1000 and my ND8-128 set at ND8 giving a total exposure lengthening of 13 stops (10+3). I first set the custom white balance with my 18% grey card and took one shot at 1/15 sec. @ f/3.5 with single autofocus for reference . I then fitted the filters with the custom white balance selected and took a 9 minute 6 seconds exposure with the camera in bulb mode and with the camera’s noise reduction enabled. As previous both shots were taken under identical lighting and at the same aperture and focal length. Note, one cannot set CWB with a 10 stop or greater ND filter fitted as it’s just too dark thus I left it set with the no filter CWB setting.
I think that the shot with the filters fitted is a tad more saturated but it’s extremely marginal and it’s most definitely worth enabling the noise reduction if it’s not already set to on or auto. The downside is that it more or less doubles the length of the shot as it takes a dark slide so I had to wait nearly 20 minutes to view the resulting image. As an additional experiment I repeated this with noise reduction turned off but the result was pretty poor. Enabling noise reduction doesn’t present me with any issues as, given my interests, I’m unlikely to take many extreme long exposure shots.
Custom white balance and no filter for reference.
Same custom white balance setting with ND1000 and variable ND8-128 set at ND8.
Kind regards
Leigh
Hi folks,
“You need hands”. A fun shot taken on the seafront in Bognor. With apologies to the late Max Bygraves. 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/leighkemp/51017137886/in/dateposted-public/lightbox/
All the best, Leigh
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