There’s only one thing I enjoy more than kicking back at the end of a day with a fishing rod and quiet beach. Ok, actually there are heaps of things but one of them is capturing scenes like this to share. Just a moment or two looking into a scene brings a little of what … Read more
With all the recent interest in looking up at the sun I decide to see if I could capture it with a normal lens and no UV filter. The short answer NO. Even at 1/8000 of a second at ISO50 and an aperture of f/64 it was still completely blown out. The resulting cloud around … Read more
After we got past the Italian bit the menu read ‘house made chocolate cannoli with white chocolate mousse, dark chocolate semi freddo, baked chocolate tart & clementine compote’. It was Jennifer’s birthday after all so why wouldn’t we? Enough said! Photo: Robert Rath, ‘366 Days of 2012, Day 160 – Piastra Di Cioccolato Alla Rigoni’s’. … Read more
This would have to be one of the most amazing images I have ever made, so why am I so reluctant to share it? I created this image today by placing a 1.2 mm diameter pin hole one metre away from the bare sensor on my camera with no lens, glass or optics of any … Read more
Cold winter Henley Beach jetty and a lone seagull all a flutter in the wind. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘366 Days of 2012, Day 158 – Caught All A Flutter’. 1/1000s at f/2.8 IS1000 200mm
I do a lot of technical photography around my work. Some of it for documentation, some of it forensic but rarely for the art of it. Here is a little project I’ve had more than just a hand in and now that it’s being publicly offered I can can finally take and publish my own … Read more
Sometimes when things go wrong they actually didn’t. This image began life as I composed to take a photo of a group of workers down a pit in the city. Suddenly their supervisor came up to me from behind, yelled at me and and scared the #$#% out of me just as I was pressing … Read more
So much of how we all see the world today is presented to us as little red, green and blue dots… Even Penguins! This 5mm x 5mm image is of a 20×20 pixel area of my LCD monitor and was taken using the 100mm macro lens + 2xTC + 60mm extension. Luckily my eyes don’t … Read more
Like a tiny little fern garden unfolding these littel yellow fern-like fonds are not from a fern at all! Guess what these little things are! Photo: Robert Rath, ‘366 Days of 2012, Day 154 – Little Yellow Things’. 13s at f/16 ISO1000 200m
Never in my life have I ever wanted to be a fireman and I am always bemused when I hear of a young boy’s career aspirations to drive the Big Red fire truck. I’m not sure what this truck was doing here tonight outside of the SA Writers Centre in Rundle St. It seemed to … Read more