Daily archives: December 18, 2010


A little bit of civil disobedience makes everything better



A little bit of civil dsobedience makes everything better, originally uploaded by spinneyhead.

Because I’m crap I’ve left my Christmas shopping until today. You’ll be glad to know I wasn’t planning to shop in any of the places targetted by tax protesters anyway.

Maybe I shall take photos of the Police taking photos of the protesters.


Long Exposures in the snow 1

Manchester snow

I’ve had a slightly frustrating day, with a morning spent learning the limitations of my chosen video editing hardware and software and an afternoon spent learning the limitations of the footage I shot on Wednesday.

But never mind, it’s snowed! I looked out of the window at about ten o’clock and found everything had gone white. I just had to grab the camera and a tripod and head out. The photo above was a fifteen second exposure in Cavendish Road Park. The other long exposures were four seconds each. The flash photos were taken using the camera’s “slow synchro” flash setting, which uses a longer exposure to bring up the background. Adjusting the white balance with Photoshop has brought out a lot of detail.

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