Stephen Thomas

Just a couple of Panoramas from the other night, click on pics for full-view.

Sunday saw the Wanneroo Giants take on Swan Districts at their Mateljan Park home ground. It was almost a one-sided match in which the Giants made an impression the first inning with a 2 run home-run leading to a 11-4 victory.

This match also gave me another opportunity to test out the Canon 7D. I can now confidently say that I love this camera, it is an amazing piece of kit. The biggest improvement is it’s very quick focusing system, I was constantly blown away at how quickly and accurately it would lock onto its target. I do not regret grabbing this camera at all.

Click on the pics for a full-view.

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Got to experiment with the Canon 7D the other night at Barbagallo Raceway, unfortunately is was in very poor conditions. The practice was delayed so by the time the cars were on the track it was far too dark. As a result I had to shoot wide open (on a 300 F4L IS) at max ISO. A lot didn’t turn out, but I was quite surprised at how many did, especially given the conditions.

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At long last, after over a month without a camera I finally get a call to say my 7D had arrived.

I’m looking forward to giving it a proper workout on the weekend, watch this space.

Couple sample/test shots below.
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Apologies for the lack of updates. I haven’t really shot anything lately as I sold my camera. Main reason was that I ordered a new one and unfortunately it has taken a while to get here. So after about a month of not touching a camera I borrowed a mates 5D MKII and 24-70L (beautiful camera) and decided to go to Lancelin (~100kms North of Perth)

These were a couple of photos I shot (Click for full-view).

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At long last, after coming up with the idea almost a year ago, Levi put the site together in the past couple of weeks. Loudphotos is a showcase of our quality event photos specialising in motorsports, club events and all things loud.

I have always been a fan of this event, you get a huge range of different cars which gets mixed with some very skillful driving, what more could you want? This year was interesting, because on the first few days the drivers were subjected to the rain which can turn any event upside down. Unfortunately Levi and I could only make the last day, but by then the competition was still fierce. Here is a select few from the day.

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Check out Issue 111 of Performance Imports and you will not only my photos there, but also my car. Granted they are photos OF my car, but still I’m glad to have something of mine published in a magazine. The editor of Performance Imports, Jason Round, contacted me to see whether I’d be happy to share a couple of photos for a feature about the Mitsubishi Galant and Legnum VR4’s, I was only glad to contribute and could not believe at what extent they had used my photos.

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Had another shoot with Funky Bunches yesterday. It was just a simple shoot of a couple of arrangements to use on their website. I’ve done a couple of them before, but this time I was able to experiment with proper lighting setups. Ended up using a white shoot-through umbrella camera left with a Nikon SB24 firing through and a Sigma EF500 DG Super, bare with the diffuser, further back camera right. I’m pretty happy with how they turned out, I really need to invest in multiple umbrellas though, as the reflection on some of the vases from the Sigma flash were a bit harsh, hope the client likes them.

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Got to attend a SAUWA Skidpan Day at the RAC Driving Centre recently and it was my first chance to fiddle around with a 5D MKII. Absolutely fantastic camera. I was planning on taking photos on my trusty 30D, but I couldn’t resist using the Video mode on the 5D. This is the result:

Unfortunately this is my first video edit and I got the video conversion wrong, hence why it looks like it skips a fair bit. I’ve found out where I went wrong so in the near future I’ll head back and fix it up.