A blogging we will go .... again

You could say so far my photography blog has been a big fat failure, and I guess in terms of consistent blogging, and sharing information with those interested you’d be right!  However I must admit that on many many occasions when I’ve been out photographing someone or something and a funny thing has happened, the first thought in my mind was “I should blog that!”

But like with all things in this fast pace society my lack of “getting onto that” straight away led me to  simply moving onto the next project, client or life event.   Then when the next “quirky” incident occurs so does the vicious cycle of “I should blog that” and “Oh bum the moment has passed”.

Anyway bare with me, I’m going to start my November Resolution of sharing my fun adventures of being a photographer, a mum and a friend.  Let BLOGvember commence!  Of course this will be done under the ‘guise of being a Photographers blog.  After all (as you'll read soon) I managed to turn September into Petember!

One last note - I want this blog to be as much about me as it is about my photography and the beautiful clients whom I will be blogging about.  

Why about me you may ask? Well I want you to get to know me, at least a little more about me, rather than just knowing my name.  After all if you are contemplating trusting me to be taking your photos in the near future,  I would like you to be able to feel comfortable with me and my quirkiness, then I know we will both have a lot of fun.

Oh and if there is anything you’d like me to cover in my blogs,  please feel free to shoot me an email at kelliejayne.photography@hotmail.com   ..(yes I know I shouldn’t have a Hotmail email address, but for some reason I just like having one!)

Of course comments and feedback here are always welcome and definitely encouraged J

Kj

Lost and Found

I haven't posted here for a very long time! The reasons are varied, but my latest excuse is that I thought this blog had been deleted! Well guess what ... it hasn't. This is great news because I've missed sharing my ventures with you all.

So here I am back again aiming to write about my photographic journey.

Since the last time I wrote I have commenced regular road trips with a few of my passionate photographic friends. I'm not sure who started it, but whoever it was I thank you.

Our first trip out was to Dog Rocks, which is a small country town just outside of Geelong in Victoria (Australia), infact so small that if you blink you'll drive right past it. The purpose was to capture the movement of stars across the night sky, which is otherwise known as "Star Trails". This was something I'd never done, or imagined being able to do, so of course when the invite reached me I was more than enthused to participate.

It didn't seem to worry me that this would mean sitting out in a cold field somewhere for several hours as day turned to night and night revealed a beautiful sky full of twinkling lights.
(picture below is of Dog Rocks as the sun is going down)

Now little did I know that each photo would take 40 minutes to capture, and if I turned on my noise reduction (on my camera) - which I was strongly advised to do, it would take another 40 minutes for my camera to process the image. Which would be great if I was in a nice warm lounge room with a hot chocolate to keep myself warm and amused whilst this happened! However I wasn't, but I did have my fellow Star Trailers with me and they kept me busy and in laughter as my camera processed the photo I'd just taken.

Okay so enough complaining... a little bit more about what I learnt about Star Trails photographs.
Firstly you need a camera that can offer a long exposure - for me with my Nikon D300 without a shutter release cable I had 30 seconds as my longest exposure. This was not near long enough to capture any movement in the sky. 

The other item that was suggested to enhance photographs was a torch! The reason for the torch was to light up anything on the ground that was available to frame or enhance your Star Trails. The torch allowed you to "paint (your picture) with light".  Without light there was nothing.
At Dog Rocks we were lucky to have the lone tree or the Rocks that the location was named after.  You can see the rocks in the image below.

Unfortunately for us that night the clouds moved faster than our camera processing time, so we only got a few photographs in. However when the weather warms a little more here I will definitely be out capturing the trails of the Stars in the moon lit skies.  Maybe you'll join me?