Trudging

Trudging
Originally uploaded by jezza323

Another street shot from yesterday, taken from the hip with the Canon Powershot A590 IS running CHDK, shot in RAW. Was taken at 5.8mm (35mm @ 35mm equivalent), ISO 200, f3.5, 1/500".

I have discovered that the Manual Focus option gets reset as soon as the display goes blank on this camera, will try to work that out...

Today I think I will take the DSLR out for some street shots, provided the rain holds off. I will take the 28mm prime, set to hyperfocal and see what I can come up with.

Processing was the same as the shot I posted last night - Hold On To Your Hat

Hold On To Your Hat

Hold On To Your Hat
Originally uploaded by jezza323

Another from the hip street shot with the Canon Powershot A590 IS point and shoot. This one was taken at 5.8mm (35mm @ 35mm equivalent), ISO 200, f3.5, 1/800"

Went for a walk down to the Queen St Mall at lunchtime to get some shots, this is one I got on the way. Managed to get a couple of others were decent too.

I even managed to get EXIF on this one! Processed as follows:

• Copied RAWs + JPGs off camera
• Converted to DNG with DNG for Powershot 2
• Imported DNGs to Lightroom 2.5
• Edited in Lightroom 2.5 (contrast, exposure, noise reduction, greyscale)
• Exported to JPG for Web

Back to Work With You & Some Tips

Back to Work With You
Originally uploaded by jezza323

Here is the first of a few upcoming street shots taken with the Canon Powershot A590 IS point and shoot digital, running the CHDK software. I am going to try and get my confidence up shooting street with this little camera, before I try getting out with the wider lenses using the DSLR.

I shot this from the hip, using hyperfocal distance and Av (aperture priority mode). The shot lost its EXIF in the RAW conversion (CHDK generates unsupported RAW files) but was taken at 5.8mm (35mm @ 35mm equivalent), ISO 125, f6.3 and 1/60"

By the way, if you want a great read on street photography, check out this fantastic post by "Street Vision", an LA street photographer.

Timelapse - Video

From My New Toy
Originally uploaded by jezza323

Here is the output from my latest ebay purchase. It is a Canon Powershot A590IS Compact Digital Cam. I bought this model as it is able to run the CHDK software, which allows many new features, one of which is to run timelapse scripts.

So this was my first go at a timelapse of something interesting. This was filmed? shot?, 1 of those, from my balcony. Unfortunately the script I used didnt allow the camera to go into long exposures as it got dark, so I couldnt use the full set of images I took, but still, this is about 935 shots for this timelapse, taken at 5 second intervals, and pieced together into a 20 fps film. I used Picasa to create the movie.

Enjoy!