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Well, I’ve made it to the first weekend. Following on from my last post, I took a couple of photographs indoors for days 2 and 3; first a slightly lazy shot of my laptop and then a more interesting arrangement of video game controllers:

Also on the 3rd, I was leaving college in the afternoon and saw this fantastic reflection in the Hyatt, which I had used as the subject for day one. I was a little miffed at not having had such a good reflection to use for my previous shot, especially given the contrast to the dark, moody sky, but I didn’t have my camera on me anyway:

On day 4 I took this shot from the canal, facing towards The Mailbox:

At the weekend, I thought I’d try some different things. So on Saturday I went out and bought a couple of bags of Skittles and spent half an hour dropping them onto a table. I had the camera on a tripod, remote release in one hand and a bowl of Skittles to tip onto the table in the other; and roped in my housemate to hold a lamp providing light from the front. This was the result:

Continuing the different techniques theme, today I had a go at using a reversed lens to create a macro setup. See the description below the photo on flickr (which you can find by clicking on the picture below) for more details on the setup I used.