Brendan Davey Photography

Fibre Optics Geek Wallpaper, a photo by BrendanDavey on Flickr.

How hard is it to create stock photos? That’s the question I asked myself the other day when I was on a news website taking note of a fiber optic cable stock picture used in an article.

It can’t be that hard? so I purchased a 7 dollar lamp from eBay, and have taken a few basic shots. with my long term goal to combine them with pictures from a large IT server room as a backdrop.

In the mean time I think I will load a few of these onto flickr, they should make quite a nice computer desktop image.

Betfair Black, a photo by BrendanDavey on Flickr.

Sample shots from recent Betfair Black studio shoot. I used my 2 x silver umbrellas for the first time, along with 2 x 580 ex II flashes and remote triggers. 50mm f1.4 lens.

I think black is the worst colour to shoot

Clarence City Council Chambers 2, a photo by BrendanDavey on Flickr.

I have seven pieces on show at the Clarence City Council (CCC) chambers at the moment, a mini follow up exhibition to the larger exhibition I had earlier in the year at the school house gallery, focusing on the CCC area.

All work is for sale should anyone like to purchase

A shot of a shot., a photo by BrendanDavey on Flickr.

Just for fun I decided to upload a picture showing a picture of my 5D taking a picture. It gives a really good idea of how the filters and 5D is processing the image.

I have no idea now the iPhone is claiming the exposure figures that it is as they simply don’t seem to add up when compared with the 5D. Then again maybe I had a 10 stop filter on.

Roaches Beach Sunrise Vivid Blue, a photo by BrendanDavey on Flickr.

The ash cloud from the recent volcano eruption in Chilli, (which has halted a lot of flights around the country) many are speculating that sun rises and sunsets should be a lot “better” than normal. To be honest I’m not seeing it, it seems the same to me. Maybe I need to get closer?

Taste of Asia – Exhibition, a photo by Brendan Davey on Flickr.

Starting from this Sunday afternoon a selection of my work will be on display at the Taste of Asia in North Hobart.

The pictures focus on Tasmanian landscapes, mainly from the local Hobart area. They have all been printed at A1 on canvas, and will be available for purchase. For a preview follow this link through to my Flickr page:

Taste of Asia is located at 358 Elizabeth Street, North Hobart and they also do a very good curry.

Aurora Australis, Lauderdale Beach, a photo by BrendanDavey on Flickr.

You can just make out the red “curtains” or ribbons above the green glow. It has been quite a while since I have seen one this good.

2012 is predicted to be a big year for sun spots. It will be interesting to see if there are any good Auroras next year.

“Fall” at the Royal Hobart Botanical Gardens, a photo by BrendanDavey on Flickr.

Taken at the Royal Hobart Botanical Gardens. All the leaves have just about dropped, and I have no doubt that winter is well on its way.

I was primarily shooting video, and I’m hoping to have a shot video consisting of a few focus pulls onto vimeo or flickr soon.

Roaches Beach 3, a photo by BrendanDavey on Flickr.

It’s been a long while since I’ve posed to my blog, and a lots been happening. I’m aiming to get more regular updates and articles up, in the mean time, here is a picture I took last week.

Long exposure with 10 stop, I got the timing just right to capture the clouds when they lit up, 2 mins either side and it would have been rather dull.

These aquaducts are some of, if not the oldest in Australia. Built to carry the water to Hobart from Mount Wellington. Built by convicts in the 1840′s. The history of the pipeline is a little sketchy, with the oldest known document of the water system, a tracing of an original document entitled “Map of the Proposed Line of Aqueduct for Supplying Hobart Town with Pure Water, 1841″.

The pipeline walking talk, follows the original path of the old pipe system from Ferntree to the waterworks reserve.

I used a hard ND grad parallel to the top of the aquaduct to cut they sky down a fair bit…