And I reckon everyone could do with one of these little beauties too. I'm not one to give praise a lot, but these dudes rock :)
Today was an exhausting day at work - just a lot of emotional and mental drainage. Coming home I was wondering how I was going to summon the strength to do my photo today on top of everything else. Luckily today was "left overs" day. Left over food, left over plonk. Yum :) I felt a million times better after that.
Todays pic is of a GoPro Hero2. This item found its way into my gadget bag after I sold a Rokinon 8mm f/3.5 fisheye lens to finance it in December last year. I wasn't overly impressed with the Rokinon/Samyang/Bowers/Pro-Optics/insert-distributor-label-here 8mm lens. I had it for maybe 2 months. It was ok. But I actually think the daylight images from the GoPro Hero2 give that lens a big run for it's money.
The Hero2 has it's limitations. Available light only, no manual settings, no LCD screen. But I find if it is used with these limitations in mind, they don't become limitations, rather just "traits" of the camera. Used properly one can easily judge roughly what will be picked up by the lens... a LOT!!
Anyway, today this photo was shot using my EF 85mm f/1.8, set at f/10, with 2 YN460IIs. The flash above the Hero2 was set at minimum power, and was in a beer holder snoot with a small cheap grid shoved in the end. The flash on the wall behind was gelled with red gel, through a small grid, at about 1/32 power. The set up shot is below.
To get the circle around the Hero2 to be small, I had to bring the grid in real close. It was only just out of frame. It also meant I had to have as little power as possible, and decrease the aperture a bit.
The resulting image was essentially straight out of camera (SOOC). I adjusted the levels to show the red a bit, that's about it.
I know it is sort of similar to yesterdays pic, but it is really a whole different shoot all together :)
I took the GoPro Hero2 on our trip overseas, with the Wrist Housing. It was great fun in the pool and in the surf taking photos and video of the family. I was hoping to use it through India and Hong Kong too, however I gave the wrist housing to my brother in law, as he fell in love with the Hero2 and we bought him one for his Birthday. The store we ordered it from did not have (and could not reliably get) the wrist housing into Singapore in time for his snorkeling trip, so I left mine with him. I did not really want to risk dropping/scratching my Hero2 without the housing, so it spent the next 3 weeks in bubbles wrap! I had intended to get a new one in Hong Kong on the way through, but we ran amazingly short of time. Needless to say I grabbed a new wrist housing pronto when I returned to Sydney... which has of course, sat in it's box ever since :)
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