Ooops, almost a month gone since my last post… So let’s catch up with some of the stuff that’s been going on /​com­ing through the lens of my camera.

Last month, the annual Social Sci­ences Fest­ival took place again in the Lib­rary. Since there were a bunch of import­ant people going to give a talk, I thought it might be a good idea to go over with my cam­era an take a few pho­tos. And a good idea it was.

I got some really nice “journ­al­istic” pho­tos of some import­ant fig­ures from the uni­ver­sity and bey­ond, like, for instance, Prof. John Hughes (the per­son on the right), the uni­ver­sity pres­id­ent. Shoot­ing report­age style means that you’re there to reflect the situ­ation, the moment. No funky col­our post-​processing or weird angles, but clean, neut­ral and inform­at­ive pic­tures.

For most of the shots I bounced my external flash off the ceil­ing (which was white, for­tu­nately), together with some light reflec­ted off the built-​in bounce card. Together with a high ISO and open aper­ture I tried to get a nice bal­ance between nat­ural light and flash light — unlike the uni­ver­sity pho­to­grapher who just killed all ambi­ence with his over-​powered flash (here’s his pic­ture of the same situ­ation that he took just after me ;-)).

Hav­ing pro­cessed the pic­tures the same even­ing, I offered them to the Lib­rary as well as the Com­mu­nic­a­tions /​PR Office of the uni­ver­sity, and they were very inter­ested. One photo is already used on the Lib­rary web­site (repla­cing a sim­ilar, but less pretty one from the offi­cial pho­to­grapher that they ini­tially used), and some more will appear in the next uni­ver­sity news­let­ter :-) Now how is that?