Playground

 Exposure: 1/200 sec

Focal Length: 39mm
Aperture: f/5.0

ISO:100

Flash: Off

Post-Process: Yes

 Exposure: 1/160 sec

Focal Length: 39mm
Aperture: f/5.0

ISO:100

Flash: Off

Post-Process: Yes

 Exposure: 1/200 sec

Focal Length: 21mm
Aperture: f/8.0

ISO:100

Flash: Off

Post-Process: Yes

 Exposure: 1/500 sec

Focal Length: 23mm
Aperture: f/5.0

ISO:100

Flash: Off

Post-Process: Yes

Low Angle

Exposure: 1/160 sec
Focal Length: 18mm
Aperture: f/8.0

ISO:100

Flash: Off

Post-Process: Duh (that lens flare is natural, btw)

Rocking the dancefloor

These guys were rocking the improvised dancefloor during Toby2Shoes set at Adidas Three Stories.

Exposure: 1/200 sec
Focal Length: 34mm
Aperture: f/4.5

ISO: 200

Flash: On, fired

Post-processing: Yes, oh yes! It took me ages to post-process this. I spent a lot of time using Content Aware Fill in PS CS5 to remove unwanted elements like someone's shoulder to the right and touching up the guys' faces that had quite a bit of sweat and shine.

Balloons

 Exposure: 1/60 sec
Focal Length: 55mm
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 100
Flash: On, fired

Post-processing: Yes

Rainy Sunday Afternoon

Exposure: 1/8 sec
Focal Length: 33mm
Aperture: f/4.5
ISO: 100
Flash: Off
Post-processing: Yes

Exposure: 1/25 sec
Focal Length: 33mm
Aperture: f/4.5
ISO: 100
Flash: Off
Post-processing: Yes

Soccer Madness

So daily posting is not going to work out but I'll try and post as often as I can. At a loss as to where to watch the South Africa vs Mexico game we actually ventured into Long Street but since I don't function that well most of my shots were unusable. Every place in Long Street being packed we ended up heading back to Woodstock to watch the game at the best venue for the World Cup: The Adidas Three Stories Pop-up Store. I will be spending a lot more time at this temporary venue and more photos are to follow.

Exposure: 1/50 sec
Focal Length: 43mm
Aperture: f/5.0
ISO: 100
Flash: Off
Post-processing: Yes

Exposure: 1/15 sec
Focal Length: 55mm
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 100
Flash: Off
Post-processing: Yes





Exposure: 1/125 sec
Focal Length: 34mm
Aperture: f/5.0
ISO: 800
Flash: On, fired
Post-processing: Yes

Exposure: 1/10 sec
Focal Length: 50mm
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 800
Flash: On, fired
Post-processing: Yes

Off day

So, between forgetting my camera at home and upon returning home realising that I forgot my SD card at work and having to deal with soccer mad traffic, I was in no mood to photograph.

Have a photo of the hanging flowers in the Amsterdam Flower Market.

Exposure: 1/125 sec
Focal Length: 50mm
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 400
Flash: Off
Post-processing: Yes

Intro

In an effort to improve my photography I've decided to to take photos daily and post them on this blog. A daily photo won't always be possible and those days that it's not possible to post (read too drunk/hungover to operate a camera) I will post something previously taken.

Why The F Number? If you're privileged enough to have kept company with me you will know that The F Word features quite prominently in my vocab. The F Number also refers to the aperture (lens) opening on a camera and my preferred method of shooting, aperture priority, where you can choose the size of the lens opening.

Here's my first batch of pictures taken last night at A Touch of Madness in Observatory which is a veritable treasure chest for a photographer. I had quite a bit of success (and some failures) with low light photography. The photographs were taken in manual mode with a slow shutter speed and wide aperture, with/without flash and a high ISO.

Exposure: 1/8 sec
Focal Length: 55mm
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 1600
Flash: Off
Post-processing: Yes

Exposure: 1/8 sec
Focal Length: 55mm
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 1600
Flash: Off
Post-processing: Yes

Exposure: 1/8 sec
Focal Length: 51mm
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 1600
Flash: Off
Post-processing: Yes

Exposure: 1/8 sec
Focal Length: 48mm
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 1600
Flash: Off
Post-processing: Yes

Exposure: 1/10 sec
Focal Length: 18mm
Aperture: f/5.0
ISO: 1600
Flash: Off
Post-processing: Yes

Exposure: 1/20 sec
Focal Length: 33mm
Aperture: f/5.0
ISO: 100
Flash: On, fired
Post-processing: Yes