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Bounced Photon is a photoblog by Rod Kashubin from Sydney, Australia.
"In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary." Aaron Rose
When I take photographs I sometimes come across the subjects that I am excited about. It might be great valley views from a mountain lookout, or a beautiful sunset sky, or a tiny bird singing and jumping around the tree, or a modern building in the city that reflects the clouds in its glassy surface. It is some of these pictures that I later spend hours on processing, enhancing details, combining multiple shots into a perfect image. I consider this to be the best of my work. And these are the photographs that I want to share via my photoblog. I hope you enjoy these colourful snapshots of light.
Do photons bounce?
I view photons as tiny light particles propelled by Sun. They are all of different colours individually, but together they form what we call "light" and appear as white. A rainbow is a great example showing colours the light consists of. Photons fly great distances almost in no time, hitting and bouncing off objects, illuminating and sketching colourful pictures in our vision. However, not all photons are reflected of the objects, some of them are absorbed. Therefore, it is only a segment of light reflected. For different materials there will be a specific group of reflected light. For example, for a fresh ripe tomato there will be a pack of red photons bounced off. And here comes a photograph which itself is created by various photons bouncing off tomatoes among other things and leaving their light traces on a camera sensor.
Equipment
My first digital camera was Canon Digital IXUS 330 that I bought as soon as I arrived in Australia. It had a good battery and a 16Mb memory card that allowed me to take about 30 shots. It is great device and I used it to take the first photos of fascinating things I saw in Sydney.
I like one photograph most of all. It was an autumn evening just after the rain. Sun was setting down painting "fog-like" clouds with bright colours. I was walking along the Garden Island and HMAS Kuttabul Navy Base and took this picture. It is straight out of the camera with no adjustments at all:
The second camera that I used was Canon Digital IXUS 30 that I have got from my friend. From now on I was not limited on a number of photographs I can take. It was with this camera that I started experimenting with panoramas. I would make several overlapping shots and then combine them together into a panoramic photograph. It greatly expanded the view that I was able to capture with my little IXUS 30 and it also helped with fitting this cityscape into a single picture. Below is a panorama of HMB Endeavour replica at the Australian National Maritime Museum. It is a stitched photograph of 3 vertical shots.
A pursuit for more detail, greater quality and a bigger dynamic range finally lead me to my first DSLR. Nikon D90 got me further experimenting with night photographs, long exposure, panoramas, bracketing, HDR and all the other interesting things.
Prints
I believe that the bigger image is available for viewing the more details a viewer will be able to see and deeper an impression will be. It is because of that I offer prints of my photographs. And even though I fully support the phrase that the best hobby is the one that pays, most of the photographs offered for prints through my website are with 0% markup. That means that the price is same for me and everyone else. So, enjoy!
License
Except where otherwise noted, content on this web site is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia Licence. Commercial use of the content is only with permission. Please contact me to discuss such usage.
Contact
Inspirations
- Stuck In Customs
- Beau Mitchell
- Sirius2 Photography
- Really Japan
- Surface Detail
- LightningPaul
- Seriocomic