Author: John Dolphin

WA Hot rod and Street machine spectacular 2010

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Street machine and hot rod

WA’s premier hot rod and custom car show at Burswood dome

more images soon
on my gallery

previous years including in the car park photos are here

macro shell

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macro shell
I like macro photography, and so far I have had to make do without a macro lens. resorting to dioptre lenses, reversing one lens onto the front of another, or more recently using a 2x converter with the glass removed. One day I will get a proper macro, I hope, a Pentax 100mm macro lens, weather resistant too.

This shell was taken using my Pentax 35-70 macro zoom on a macro converter lens (like a 2x converter except you spiral it in and out).
However when doing macros the depth of field is inevitably very shallow, but I found a program that can get around that (to some degree)

CombineZP

You take a series of photos and change the depth of focus slightly on each one ( a tripod is handy). Open CombineZP and load the photos into it. It will then stack the photos and work its magic to give you a photos with a much larger depth of field 🙂
and its a free program too

The image was turned to black and white in GIMP (free too) using channel mixer
Black and white weekend

cross processed

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Thanks to Shutterday photo meme, I stepped outside my normal photo editing habit of trying to make my photos look as natural and as close to the subject as possible (as far as my memory and screen will let me). But they decided to make the theme cross processing, the art of accidentally processing your (old days) film in the wrong chemicals (yeah, sure you did it on purpose, lol) and coming out with high contrast and weird coloured results. Of course in the digital age it is easier to make your photos artsy by emulating the process with a few simple bends of the curves tool, so I had a bash. I am not sure I like the result, maybe I need to do a bit more research.

But here is my first attempt.

maybe I need another try 🙂

RedBull air race

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Red bull air race
This last weekend the RedBull air race was held in Perth, the first time in a few years. So I thought I would take a wander down and check it out. I have to admit that even though I am not a sports fan, especially motorised sport, I was really impressed with the skill of these guys. Flying low over the water and twisting and turning their planes through the gates. Of course I had a shot or two (about 300) at trying to take photos of the planes. So using my Pentax DA* f4 300mm, with it set to autofocus (still not sure I like auto)(this photo was with my 80-320mm lens). I tried various spots up and down the river, to get different angles at the gates and try to get something that shows Perth in the background. This photo I think is Yoshihide Muroyn from Japan coming through the finish gate. In the background from the left is KPMG, QV1 building, BHP Biliton (I had a hand in making their roof top sign), Woodside, iicor, some other buildings, Clough and the ASX. Below is the convention centre and a huge PERTH sign, just to make sure its Perth :).

this is one of the photos, I have more on my gallery site and still more to put up

John Forest national park

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railway heritage track

a bike ride

Taken on a push bike ride along the Railway Heritage Track
The Railway heritage Track is an old railway track, converted to a walk and bike track
it runs along Jane brook through the park
a nice easy and scenic ride

it was a nice and cloudy day for a change

there is also a tunnel (the only one in W.A.)
the rest of the photos are in my gallery http://www.johndolphin.net/photos/categories.php?cat_id=49

pentax K10D and 10-17 fisheye zoom

Unique Exposures challenge

Classic car show

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The Council of Motoring Clubs (CMC) of Western Australia and Auto one Classic car show at mussel pool
Whiteman park is a brilliant free event for car enthusiasts to get to see a wide variety of cars, trucks, tractors, motor bikes, and even push bikes. This is a Delage on its way home after the event.

More photos soon on my gallery site

Supreme court gardens

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Supreme court gardens

A few weeks back I went for a bike ride around the Swan River
this is one of the photos, taken with a Pentax 10-17  fisheye
it is the Supreme court gardens, with the supreme court hiding behind the trees and the City in the background

there are more photos on my gallery site Gumnuts world http://www.johndolphin.net/photos/categories.php?cat_id=46

Unique Exposures challenge

Todays Flowers

Scenic Sunday

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