2020 Project 52 by Geoff F - 2nd Quarter

[Geoff F]

Week 24 - I always knew the paranoids were watching me. Now I have the proof



7D with Sigma 180 macro lens 1/200 F11 Iso 400. Flash used.

[Antonio Correia]

Indeed you can be sure they are watching you...

Cheers !

[Wavelength]

[Geoff F]

Week 25 - My workshed. Inspired by Antonio's photos inside an old workshop. Space is greatly restricted inside my garden shed. Managed to recover the roof a couple of days before the weather turned to rain



7D with Tamron 24-70 lens. 1/200 F11 Iso 400. Merge of two exposures.



1/50 F11 iso 400. Flash used

[Cantab]

A real workshop that has seen serious use. I love it!

I noted a welding mask and an industrial strength face shield. Are these from when you were doing repairs on your fish boat?

[Antonio Correia]

Geoff, you have many tools which I do not know the name, not even in Portuguese !
I like your photos and the workshed.

Now, I have a challenge for you:
Flash ? No, no !
Natural light only and/or using that lamp and the bulb we see on the top left of the second shot.
How about that ?

[Geoff F]

I have photographed some of the older and more unusual tools which are here

https://pbase.com/crustacean/old_tools_2019

When I retired I kept anything which might be useful and passed on some of the larger items to the new user of my workshop on the fish quay with the agreement that I could still come back to use them if necessary. In a forgotten corner there is a bucketful of old Whitworth and BSF spanners.

The trouble with that shed, Antonio, is that the light is poor for a setting of F11 and I needed plenty of focus depth. The windows give enough light to use that workbench but everything else is in deep shadow. There are small light bulbs at either end but they are really in the wrong position to give good light.

I once tried to fit an overhead strip light but the roof height is too low, even for someone like me who is only average height. That is why there is a 'desktop light' there for use on jobs such as careful drilling etc. Maybe, one day, I will try a strip light on the side wall? But if it causes dazzle it defeats its purpose.

Which is why after checking my exposures I decided I had to go for a little bit of fill flash, even with a 1/50 shutter speed. I tried to use a tripod and very long exposures but that wasn't working well and I couldn't get the required angles.. So I reduced the flash output compensation to give a more subdued flash light. Maybe I should have tried with the Mini Apollo flash diffuser fitted. That is something to consider.

[Geoff F]

Week 26 - Looking for some shade. Last sunny day while I was photographing wildlife I saw these cattle in the next field. Had to stretch up to get over a hedge so not quite so much foreground as I would have preferred.



7D with Tamron 24-70 lens. 1/400 F11 Iso 400

[Wavelength]

i like this very much....

[Geoff F]

Thanks for the comments.

Now for the 3rd Quarter, which is here

2020 Project 52 by Geoff F - 3rd Quarter