• Noosa Sky Dec 29, 2009 | No Comments

    Noosa Sky

    We were lucky enough to spend Christmas this year with my brother, sister-in-law and their two amazing kids. This was shot outside their deck overlooking the Noosa National Park.  Taken with my Canon EOS 5D MkII, f1.8, 1/60, Av Mode, ISO 640, EF 50mm f1.2L USM lens.

  • Bird In Sky Sep 27, 2009 | No Comments

    Bird In Sky

    A still from my first time-lapse footage, shot last weekend. Taken with my Canon EOS 5D MkII, f16, 1/500, M Mode, ISO 160, EF 50mm f1.2L USM lens.

  • Miniature Goat Sep 17, 2009 | 3 Comments

    Miniature Goat

    Playing around with my goats last night I snapped this shot. Taken with my Canon EOS 5D MkII, f1.2, 1/800, Av Mode, ISO 640, EF 50mm f1.2L USM lens.

  • Bonfire Sep 7, 2009 | No Comments

    Bonfire

    A perfect night with great company, gazing into the bonfire. Taken with my new Canon EOS 5D MkII, f1.2, 1/13, Av Mode, ISO 1250, EF USM L 50mm lens.

  • Purple Iris Jul 26, 2009 | No Comments

    Purple Iris

    A purple Iris taken with my compact Sony Cybershot DSC-T1 using a built in flash in macro mode.

  • Waterfall Jul 21, 2009 | No Comments

    Waterfall

    We found this nice waterfall on a hike in Deep Creek, SA. Canon EOS 350D, f3.5, 1/60, Av Mode, ISO 800, EFS 18-55 mm lens [ set at 18mm (x1.6) ]

  • Lines Feb 14, 2009 | No Comments

    Lines

    Belair train lines, just past the Belair station. Taken with my compact Sony Cybershot DSC-T1 with natural lighting.

  • Nice Spot … Feb 14, 2009 | No Comments

    Nice Spot ...

    A nice little spot we found on a bush walk on Kangaroo Island. Taken with my Canon EOS 350D, f16, 1/60, Av Mode, ISO 100, EFS 18-55 mm lens [ set at 18mm (x1.6) ]

  • Second Valley Feb 8, 2009 | No Comments

    Second Valley

    Time to reflect at Second Valley. Taken with my Canon EOS 350D, f5.6, 1/2000, Av Mode, ISO 100, EFS 18-55 mm lens [ set at 55mm (x1.6) ]

  • Port Fairy Sky Feb 6, 2009 | No Comments

    Port Fairy Sky

    The sky was angry that day my friend … Port Fairy beach, Victoria. Taken with my Canon EOS 350D, f5.6, 1/2000, Av Mode, ISO 100, EFS 18-55 mm lens [ set at 55mm (x1.6) ]

  • Gum Trees Feb 5, 2009 | No Comments

    Gum Trees

    Gum trees in the Belair National Park. Taken with my compact Sony Cybershot DSC-T1 with natural lighting.

  • Graffiti in Degraves Feb 5, 2009 | No Comments

    Graffiti in Degraves

    Degraves Street, Melbourne. Always fresh street art here. Taken with my compact Sony Cybershot DSC-T1 with no flash.

  • Bokeh Feb 4, 2009 | No Comments

    Bokeh

    I’ve been wanting to start a collection of bokeh’s to use for different projects at work, replicating the characteristics of the circles-of-confusion for different lens and apertures. Once I get a decent collection together I’ll post them with tutorials. Meanwhile here’s a crazy looking one I’ve combined in Photoshop by shooting straight at an [...]

  • Leaf Feb 1, 2009 | No Comments

    Leaf

    A leaf of some kind. Taken with my compact Sony Cybershot DSC-T1 with no flash in macro mode.

  • Waaa Feb 1, 2009 | No Comments

    Waaa

    Asha crying … Taken with my Canon EOS 350D, f3.5, 1/250, Av Mode, EFS 18-55 mm lens [ set at 18mm (x1.6) ]

  • Our First Eggs Feb 1, 2009 | No Comments

    Our First Eggs

    One of the first eggs from our two new additions, Milly and Molly. A couple of New Hampshire Red’s. Taken with my Canon EOS 350D, f5.6, 1/2000, Av Mode, ISO 800, EFS 18-55 mm lens [ set at 46mm (x1.6) ]

  • Asha Eating Cake Feb 1, 2009 | No Comments

    Asha Eating Cake

    Asha eaiting a cup cake on her fourth birthday. Taken with my Canon EOS 350D, f5.0, 1/60, Av Mode, ISO 400, EFS 18-55 mm lens [ set at 31mm (x1.6) ]

  • Port Fairy Beach Feb 1, 2009 | No Comments

    Port Fairy Beach

    The beach at Port Fairy, Victoria. Taken with my Canon EOS 350D, f5.6, 1/2000, Av Mode, ISO 100, EFS 18-55 mm lens [ set at 55mm (x1.6) ]



Photography
5DMkII Noise
Sep 26, 2009 | No Comments

I stumbled across this graph plotting noise vs ISO on the 5DMkII. I was perusing the cinema5D forums when this popped up. Here’s the link to the cinema5D thread which also has some brilliant Highlight Tone Priority tests, thanks to AdamJ for the orginial post on canonphotogroup.com. Extemely interesting that ISO 1250 seems to have less noise [...]


Time-lapse
Wind Turbines
Oct 14, 2009 | No Comments

Time-lapse Wind Turbines from Ben Roberts on Vimeo.

Time-lapse Test Compilation [ tl-001a - tl-007 ] from Ben Roberts on Vimeo.

Here is some more Time-lapse shot last weekend. I choose the same 1 second interval but after a great friend and fellow work mate, ioxu checked it out, I decided to speed things up. This has [...]





Digital Photos
Noosa Sky
Noosa Sky
Dec 29, 2009 | No Comments

We were lucky enough to spend Christmas this year with my brother, sister-in-law and their two amazing kids. This was shot outside their deck overlooking the Noosa National Park.  Taken with my Canon EOS 5D MkII, f1.8, 1/60, Av Mode, ISO 640, EF 50mm f1.2L USM lens.


Bird In Sky
Bird In Sky
Sep 27, 2009 | No Comments

A still from my first time-lapse footage, shot last weekend. Taken with my Canon EOS 5D MkII, f16, 1/500, M Mode, ISO 160, EF 50mm f1.2L USM lens.


Miniature Goat
Miniature Goat
Sep 17, 2009 | 3 Comments

Playing around with my goats last night I snapped this shot. Taken with my Canon EOS 5D MkII, f1.2, 1/800, Av Mode, ISO 640, EF 50mm f1.2L USM lens.


Bonfire
Bonfire
Sep 7, 2009 | No Comments

A perfect night with great company, gazing into the bonfire. Taken with my new Canon EOS 5D MkII, f1.2, 1/13, Av Mode, ISO 1250, EF USM L 50mm lens.



Photography
5DMkII Noise
5DMkII Noise

I stumbled across this graph plotting noise vs ISO on the 5DMkII. I was perusing the cinema5D forums when this popped up. Here’s the link to the cinema5D thread which also has some brilliant Highlight Tone Priority tests, thanks to AdamJ for the orginial post on canonphotogroup.com. Extemely interesting that ISO 1250 seems to have less noise [...]

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Compositing
Nuke Noise
Nuke Noise

Here is some custom Nuke noise, similar to those noise functions I posted as Shake Noise3d. I will call it Nuke Noise. Not to be mistaken with Nukes built in Turbulence or fBm pixel generation methods. We have Nukes noise function (noise (x,y,z)) being called via some User Knobs. Again there’s control over Frequency, Seed, [...]

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Happy Snaps on Flickr
Number 80
Number 80

Follow our photoset on Flickr.

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Random
Christmas Story: 1919
Christmas Story: 1919

Another link that was going around the office. This is a great site of historical photo’s from “back in the day” …

check it out http://shorpy.com/

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Time-lapse
Wind Turbines

Time-lapse Wind Turbines from Ben Roberts on Vimeo.

Time-lapse Test Compilation [ tl-001a - tl-007 ] from Ben Roberts on Vimeo.

Here is some more Time-lapse shot last weekend. I choose the same 1 second interval but after a great friend and fellow work mate, ioxu checked it out, I decided to speed things up. This has [...]

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