Albert Bridge + Extras

[gubbs]

An afternoon of shooting, great company and great food, what more could you want!
We started the afternoon in Battersea Park and walked up to the Albert Bridge.
andy lent me his 35 1.4 L to try out. This was taken wide open at 1.4 , andy's face was a little dark compared to the sky so I tried using Scott Kelby's fill flash tecnique. Taking a duplicate layer / screen blending /opacity 50% then masking out the background
http://Gubbs.smugmug.com/photos/13824032-L.jpg

Swapped over to my Tamron 28-75 f2.8 for this one
iso 100 f18 1 sec, andy managed to get in this one too
http://Gubbs.smugmug.com/photos/13826207-L.jpg
I learnt a lesson here, when the light was bad I tried allsorts of angles and shots of the bridge. As the light improved, I kept thinking I've already got a load of shots like that from earlier & so didn't repeat them. Subsequently I hardly ended up with any decent shots of the complete bridge.
This was taken with the Tamron 28-75 again iso100 f16 6/10sec. I blended 2 exposures taken from the raw file using the layer mask method from here (http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/digital-blending.shtml)
http://Gubbs.smugmug.com/photos/13824039-L.jpg
finally andy and I were wasting away waiting for the retaurant to open so took a few shots to kill some time
saw this pulling away from the lights
iso 200 canon 50mm f1.4 f4.5 1/5 sec

http://Gubbs.smugmug.com/photos/13824030-L.jpg

Cheers :beer

[cletus]

Cool shots gubbs!

Love the car pic. What kind of car is that?

[Andy]

great to see you again, gubbs!

that 35 f/1.4L is intoxicating, isn't it? you should start stashing away your pence for it.. you know you'll get great use out of it!

thansk for the shots, fun indeed :D the traffic on the bridge is really cool.

and that car!

[damonff]

http://Gubbs.smugmug.com/photos/13824030-L.jpg

This photo is awesome Gubbs; looks like it belongs in an advertisement...

[gubbs]

Cool shots gubbs!

Love the car pic. What kind of car is that?
Cletus its a Lamborghini Gallardo, if you fancy one to run around in, there's a 2nd hand one here (http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/detail.asp?i=32936&s=310) for a mere $210,000... let me know if your interested & I'll pick it up for you :D

great to see you again, gubbs!

that 35 f/1.4L is intoxicating, isn't it? you should start stashing away your pence for it.. you know you'll get great use out of it!

thansk for the shots, fun indeed :D the traffic on the bridge is really cool.

and that car! Andy your a bad influence!!

Cheers! :thumb

This photo is awesome Gubbs; looks like it belongs in an advertisement...
Thanks damon, I reckon it should belong in my garage .... one day:D

[cletus]

Cletus its a Lamborghini Gallardo, if you fancy one to run around in, there's a 2nd hand one here (http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/detail.asp?i=32936&s=310) for a mere $210,000... let me know if your interested & I'll pick it up for you :D Thanks for the offer gubbs. It'll be a bit before I can think about buying one... I need to get my Subaru paid off first :D

By the way... did it sound as good as it looks???

[gubbs]

Thanks for the offer gubbs. It'll be a bit before I can think about buying one... I need to get my Subaru paid off first :D

By the way... did it sound as good as it looks???
TBH there was so much rush hour noise, I couldn't really hear it :ear, but with a 5.0 ltr 490 bhp V10 it's gotta sound good :gone

[pathfinder]

http://Gubbs.smugmug.com/photos/13824030-S.jpg

This photo is awesome Gubbs; looks like it belongs in an advertisement...
The bridge shots were very good, but I agree with Damon that this shot sizzles. The steel blue of the car blurred against the even more blurred hot reddish-orange background just sizzles!! Now, if Gubbs will tell me that he planned this shot against the orange background I will be most impressed :bow

Very well done indeed Gubbsie.
:thumb

[gubbs]

The bridge shots were very good, but I agree with Damon that this shot sizzles. The steel blue of the car blurred against the even more blurred hot reddish-orange background just sizzles!! Now, if Gubbs will tell me that he planned this shot against the orange background I will be most impressed :bow

Very well done indeed Gubbsie.
:thumb
Well, I kinda planned it.
I was practising doing panning shots with London Buses and taxis, I thought they'd look good against the big shop windows. Then the lambo pulled up at the red lights, I took a quick shot while it was sitting there to check the exposure and then waited for the lights to go green hoping that a bus wouldn't pull up in front of me from the other direction. Fortunately he pulled away fairly quickly so it all worked out OK.
So a bit of planning and a lot of luck :rofl

Thanks PF :thumb

[wxwax]

:thumb The car is great! Nice portrait of Andy, too. But your camera isn't working either - it's made his hair gray as well.

[gubbs]

:thumb The car is great! Nice portrait of Andy, too. But your camera isn't working either - it's made his hair gray as well. Sid, I think you'll find its working just fine :heh

[pathfinder]

Well, I kinda planned it.
I was practising doing panning shots with London Buses and taxis, I thought they'd look good against the big shop windows. Then the lambo pulled up at the red lights, I took a quick shot while it was sitting there to check the exposure and then waited for the lights to go green hoping that a bus wouldn't pull up in front of me from the other direction. Fortunately he pulled away fairly quickly so it all worked out OK.
So a bit of planning and a lot of luck :rofl

Thanks PF :thumb

I am so impressed then --- F8 and be there as they say. SO you did have an idea - that IS cool. Sometimes the best shots are totally planned and some are spontaneous and some a little of both. Like I said, very well done.

[gubbs]

I am so impressed then --- F8 and be there as they say. SO you did have an idea - that IS cool. Sometimes the best shots are totally planned and some are spontaneous and some a little of both. Like I said, very well done.
Cheers PF :thumb

[lynnma]

Cheers PF :thumbWell done gubbs.. great shots all..I have my nose pressed up to the screen.. do you really like your Tamron???????? I'm thinking again..:thumb

[gubbs]

Well done gubbs.. great shots all..I have my nose pressed up to the screen.. do you really like your Tamron???????? I'm thinking again..:thumb
Lynn, I do really like it, for the money its excellent. If there are any shots that I can do for you to demonstrate it, maybe comparing it to the canon 50 f1.4, then let me know :thumb

[ian408]

Lovely shots. And I'm with everyone on the car. It jumps out of the frame.
Very cool.

ian

[obelix]

http://Gubbs.smugmug.com/photos/13824030-L.jpg

Cheers :beer
Very nice shots, love the Car shot.

[gus]

http://gubbs.smugmug.com/photos/13824030-L.jpg

Cheers :beer
Love that bridge shot gubbs. This car shot. Did you swing the camera at all or is that just a good fast lens ?

Yours

Humungus whom is still totally lost about the little numbers on camera lens's.

[gubbs]

Love that bridge shot gubbs. This car shot. Did you swing the camera at all or is that just a good fast lens ?

Yours

Humungus whom is still totally lost about the little numbers on camera lens's. Cheers,

set the camera to 1/5 sec then tracked the car with the camera as it pulled away, released the shutter as it passed the windows and kept the camera moving with car

Humungus:what doest it matter when you take such great shots !!

[USAIR]

Very nice shots love the bridge and the car:bow
It looks like Andy's arms are getting bigger ...been working out ?:lift

Thanks
Fred

[gubbs]

Very nice shots love the bridge and the car:bow
It looks like Andy's arms are getting bigger ...been working out ?:lift

Thanks
FredThanks Fred, That's one of the hidden benefits of a DSLR and all the gear, you get a work out thrown in for free :lift