If you like to take adventure photography and think that GoPro or other action cameras can not do enough but don’t want to spend more than what your DSLR camera cost for underwater housing, Outex is the answer. It may sounds like a birth control product brand and works almost the same but it’s the coolest DSLR camera gear to protect the camera from water, mud, snow or dust in reasonably affordable price :)). It envelops any major DSLR and lenses brand like Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Sony, Sigma, Tamron etc. To do a split level water photography will be very handy if you have the right lenses and Outex set for that as an alternative to expensive camera housing.
Although you can use Outex for underwater photography up to 10m deep, it is not designed for scuba diving as its not supporting the pressure. And to be able to use it underwater, it has to be installed properly. When you purchase from their website, it will be directed to which camera and lenses are you using so it will fit them properly. It’s an exciting new gear for adventure photography.
Here are some photos of this Outex from many sources:
I first thought about bullet time camera effect when watching Red Hot Chilli Peppers live at Slane when Kiedis jumped and the camera panned from one side to other. I could never think about the logic how the hell they do it with only one camera or software effects. The camera panning must be super fast to create that sort of motion, I thougth. Then I found out that Bullet time camera effect is what they used, its a scene created when a frozen motion is panned using gazillion of camera set up around the object.
Here are some example of amazing examples beside the most famous one, Matrix movie bullet time scene and they are not the first time to use this technique:
Time-Slice Films Demo Reel 2009 (Featured above)
The Gadget Show – Bullet Time / Time Slice Shot – Suzi Perry
Really Bend it Like Backham
The 30 GoPro Bullet Time Rig – K.Flay Music Video Mini-Doc
LA Times: Explained
Rip Curl: and behind the scene
Time Slice with Wuon Gean Ho
A Moment In Time
On Smash Live – Behind The Scenes – GoPro Array Drum Shoot
I’m lucky to live just walking distance from such a beautiful Nightcliff foreshore but have to admit that I dont go there quite often than I should. Its the best spot in Darwin for a jog or just power walk with the most amazing sunset in Australia. Starting to get myself in to it again and spared some time on the weekend to give it a shot. Its that time of the year when the wet season suppose to be here already but not quite yet. Here’s the backdrop:
Thanks to the generosity of Nina K who let us played around and learnt some useful photography tips in her studio and I finally got a chance to take some photos with serious lighting. The Darwin Photowalks group arranged the event and lucky we had some brilliant young dancers as the objects of the session. We had so much fun with indoor and outdoor session with the dancers and ‘amazed’ how good lighting set up can give a big difference on the quality of your shots as long as you set your speed, ISO, aperture and white balance right.
Nina allowed everyone of us to use her studio lighting with some tips she shared. I was not even sure which lens I suppose to use before getting into the shots. From what I gather, the best way to take some portrait or action photography in studio is mid range lenses and also depend on how big the studio is. I don’t have a sharp mid range lens so I just used my Canon 50mm 1.8 most of the time, except when taking the whole group within the studio or outdoor. It worked OK for me except some frames are cropped unwantedly so the object lost their part of hands or leg, but I still get the sharpness. Tried with standard 18-55mm but not as sharp, so I couldn’t be bothered.
This is one of the moment when you have some photography gears that you dont use often but when you do, they dont work as you wanted to :)). When it was not my turn to use studio lighting, I used my flash and remote trigger so I could take some light from the side of object and not straight from the camera but only for few shots, the rest didnt work due to battery problem so I have to stick the flash on the camera which means I had to use light from the camera angle. Moral of the story: check all of your gears that involve battery and make sure you have some spares.
Here are some shots that I like, some minor post processing was taken to play around with the colors; critics and comments will be highly appreciated:
One of the dancers at the session – Darwin Photowalks January 2013
One of the dancers at the session – Darwin Photowalks January 2013
One of the dancers at the session – Darwin Photowalks January 2013; When unwanted lights collide, it gave me extra light from the right side that made the skin tone on the face looks flat, but it gives a stronger line on the eyes.
One of the dancers at the session – Darwin Photowalks January 2013
One of the dancers at the session – Darwin Photowalks January 2013
One of the dancers at the session – Darwin Photowalks January 2013
One of the dancers at the session – Darwin Photowalks January 2013
One of the dancers at the session – Darwin photowalks 2013
This particular photo did not use the studio set up lighting but I was lucky I captured someone else’s flash! – Darwin Photowalks January 2013
This photo didn’t use the studio lighting and just natural light from the door, I like the shallow depth of focus using Canon 50mm 1.8
In Studio with Nina K. This was using my own one side lighting..
The outdoor session “Levitaion”- Darwin Photowalks January 2013 “In Studio with Nina K”
The outdoor session – Darwin Photowalks January 2013 “In Studio with Nina K”
The outdoor session – Darwin Photowalks January 2013 “In Studio with Nina K”
Outdoor session – Looks like they’re having fun too – Darwin photowalks January 2013
Darwin Photowalks January 2013 – In Studio with Nina K, Indoor session
