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:
In my previous post about Custom Bokeh, I mentioned about how to create custom shaped bokeh for still photography. On Thursday, I visited the opening season of Mindil Beach Markets in Darwin with fireworks and I practice the custom bokeh for that. The result was pretty entertaining and colorful, I couldnt stop myself watching them and here it is the video:
I was at the Australian Superbike Championship 2012 this afternoon and was surprised by how little was the crowd at Hidden Valley, Darwin. Maybe it was on Sunday and I came bit late, but fortunately I had a chance to see Crusty Demons. The Superbikes themselves was OK.
Crusty Demons performance were too short and didnt do too many acts but I got a chance to shot their styles. These are some that made me go wow and thought that these guys are 6. I shot these acts with cheap standard kit lense 55-250mm Canon:
Doing macro photography could be very fun as you can create a photo that your eyes won’t see in everyday life or bare eyes. It requires a special lens to capture a tiny object as a close up in details. But I just learned recently that you can do a macro photography without special pricy lenses and get a way around it. One of my photographer friends mentioned to me the other week that we can do a macro photography with a reversed lens. I was not sure what he meant at that time but he said it’s literally just reversing your lens back to front.
Not going to elaborate the science of how the reverse lens work but its pretty cool (you can see the science here: https://stephenelliot.com/2007/05/15/reverse-lens-macro-photography-tutorial/). You can just hold your lens back to front against the camera or buy a special reverse lens mount.
So then I did an experiment on it and the result is surprised me, better than I thought. This experiment I used a standard cheap lens kit EFS 18-55mm, I don’t have any insect or something more exciting to capture so I just took whatever I have in the office :
This is how I did it without reverse lens mount
Experiment I:
Gargamel | Normal lens at focal length 55mm maximum closest 
Gargamel | Same lens setting but reversed and closed up
Experiment II:
Watch | Normal setting 55mm 
Watch | Reverse Lens