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New Wall: Night Sky over the Church of the Good Shepherd

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Night Sky over the Church of the Good Shepherd

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http://www.neilcreek.com/night-sky

This image is free for you to use however you like, as long as you abide by the following Creative Commons lisence:

You can also purchase a fine art print of the image. Just click on the “Buy Print” button on the image’s page. If you use the image, please tell your twitter friends with the link below the image.

Dyed in the Milk Print Available

I’m getting back into the groove of things a bit, and having missed a few weeks submissions to the Fine Art PhotoBlog, here’s my most recent one. Some may recognise this pic from an experiment I did earlier this year.

This marks the first abstract image I’ve submitted to my collection on the Fine Art PhotoBlog, so it’ll be interesting to see the response, if any. There’s more information about the photo in its entry on the photoblog, or via the original blog post.

Night Sky Over the Church of the Good Shepherd print for sale

Theres not much more to say about this image than you can’t find in the post at the Fine Art PhotoBlog. Fortunately the photo speaks for itself. If you would like to purchase a high quality fine art print of this photo, please click on the image above.

The Pinnacles print available

This week’s print available for sale on the Fine Art PhotoBlog is one of my favourite landscapes. This is a 360 degree panorama of the Pinnacles that I took way back in 2005 when I was first learning how to do panoramic photography. However, the version that I am offering for sale is a “remastered” version of the panorama I first stitched three years ago.

In the time since then, I have learned a lot about processing and stitching panoramas. This new version has eliminated the alignment problems it once had, and I’ve done a much better job cleaning up the image to remove a couple of cars, the shadow of the tripod and my footprints leading up to the location.

The Pinnacles

You can read a lot of information about the photo on its page on the Fine Art PhotoBlog, such as the origin of the structures, and what it was like to shoot in this remarkable location. There is also a link to a very special way to view the panorama. Because this is a full spherical photo, it can be viewed as an interactive panorama, giving you the illusion that you are actually standing in the centre of it and letting you look around in all directions. It really is a must see effect!

Finally, there’s something extra special I’m able to offer with signed prints of this photo. Due to the fact that it is seamless around the edges, I am able to recompose the whole panorama by sliding it left or right to the customers’ taste. I can only do this on the collectable signed print version of this photo, as ImageKind will only let me sell single versions of images. And of course, being a high resolution panorama, it can be printed to very large sizes negligible loss of quality.

So head over to the Fine Art PhotoBlog and have a look at this new panoramic photo.

High Key Sakura Blossom

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This photo is my submission to Brian Auer's "Blown Away" photo project. This project's aim is to encourage creative over exposure, and to create images where the highlights have deliberately been "blown".

This is a close up photo of a cherry or sakura blossom. Spring has just arrived in Australia, and everywhere you look, explosions of colour are appearing. Cherry blossoms are a favourite of Melbourne residents, and these vivid cotton-candy pink trees catch the eye wherever you look. I wanted to share the delicate beauty of these blossoms, and I thought they suited this project well.

I picked a small blossom and brought it home where I could light it in my home-made light tent. Using strobist techniques, I lit the flower with a pair of flashes. Using my Canon 350D and Tamron 24-135mm lens at maximum zoom, I added 65mm of macro extension to get as close as possible to the tiny blossom. Though it only measured about 15mm across, I filled the entire eight megapixel frame with the flower.

Using a "high key" technique (letting the highlights become over exposed) allowed me to bring out detail and the subtle red and pink hues of the centre of the flower. The fragile and pale pink petals are merely a frame to the intricate stamens and centre, showing a strong contrast.

I hope you enjoy this photo, and I look forward to seeing the other submissions.

If you are visiting my blog for the first time from a link to this photo, please take a little time and have a look through the archive. You can easily find photos and entries of interest to you by clicking on the categories to the right, or using the search field. If you like the blog, then please subscribe to my

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