I had a bit of a think about what stuff I'd want to take on holiday with me, and wanted to go out on a walk this afternoon, so I tried packing all the stuff I'd probably take with me to see how heavy it would be.
Bag packed full of photo stuff
Originally uploaded by djeyewater
Bag packed full of photo stuff
Originally uploaded by djeyewater
The above photos were taken with my 450d + 18-55IS + MT-24EX, the flashes mount on the focusing ring, so to (manually) focus you have to turn the flash mount!
At lunch I ate a Wacko bar, which are like Fox's Rockys, but they're endorsed by Michael Jackson (hence the name). Here's some pics of them:
After lunch I went on a walk to Lubenham, then towards the canal. Going up the track from Lubenham to the fields I went past the house that was covered in red Ivy when I did this walk last week, but now nearly all the leaves had been blown off and it was just covered in stalks.I stopped in the field to the right of the track to take a pano of the fields full of black plastic wrapped haybales. For some reason I decided to use my tripod & pano head for the pano. Because one leg of the tripod had to go down in a small ditch on the other side of the fence, this meant the panohead wasn't levelled, so the shots are all at an angle, so lots of the top and bottom of the final image will have to be cropped out (one side of the pano will be much higher up than the other side). I don't know why I decided to use the panohead and tripod since I was using a 50mm lens so I could have just hand-held it and parallax wouldn't have been much of a problem.
I carried on and came to the field with the grasshoppers/crickets in it, and tried taking some photos of them with a reversed 50mm and onboard flash and milk bottle diffuser. It didn't work very well, focusing with the reversed lens was quite hard, and the flash was quite harsh and also took ages to recycle. I think also the flash duration might be quite long, causing blur. I did have an SB800 in the bag, but didn't have anything to make it direct the flash down towards the subject, so I didn't try it.
After that I came to the field with dandelions by the path, and although there were a few flies on them, I didn't see any butterflies like I did last time. I went up to the canal and took a couple of pics of the trees reflecting in the river by the thin footbridge, then I went back down to the field and walked along the edge parallel to the canal and then up to the canal at the other end of the field. Then along the canal and home the usual way.
I was wearing a sweater until I got to Lubenham, when I took it off because I got too hot. I found that when I was wearing the sweater, the bag and tripod didn't feel too heavy, but when I took the sweater off you could feel the weight of them a lot more. I carried the tripod so that it was over my left shoulder, while the bag strap goes over my right shoulder, which spread the weight a lot more evenly than carrying the tripod on my right shoulder.
I was only out walking (and stopping to take photos) for about 3 hours, but I was still quite worn out when I got home. If I take all the stuff out with me when I go on holiday, then I will need to be carrying it for a whole day.
When I got home I copied, sorted and started processing the photos.
After dinner I did some more photo editing, then finished watching National Treasure with Mac and Ben, then watched the latest Office (US) episode with Mac. After that I did some more photo editing.
So I didn't even get to do a new Japanese lesson today.
Food
Breakfast: Strawberry jam toast sandwich; cup o' tea.
Lunch: Mature cheddar cheese with garden salad sandwich; banana; satsuma; Fabulous Bakin' boys Lemon cake; Wacko chocolate bar; cup o' tea.
Dinner: 2x fishcakes; baked beans; mashed potato. Pudding was apple pie with custard and a small bit of thick cream.
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