Tron Legocy

Inspired by
http://gizmodo.com/#!5787259/shooting-challenge-lego

I've kind of done this thing before - back in 1990, some twenty one years ago - ouch.
But back then I didn't have Lightroom or an iPad to help with the cool effects.
I really need to get myself a macro lens, shooting this on 300mm, 2m away is really fiddly - you need to take great care not bump the frame, or even have the frame droop, with a heavy lens you need to lock in a quarter frame higher to compensate for the droop. You also need to turn off the image stabilizer, and auto focus, as they are just going to mess things up with a time lapse shot.
I was going to try some extra effects to get a lego light-cycle in there, but the set up was already a 30sec shot.
And a double exposure was just going to make everything really complicated.

Wingardium Leviosa

This turned out to be simpler than I imagined. Two shots, one with a stand to hold the bike, and one without.
A little GIMP (poor mans photoshop), to airbrush out the stand and voila.
(And a little Lightroom to tweak the color palette)

Inspire by (and too late for)
http://www.facebook.com/ShootingChallenge

Or
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=44149&id=114955518535358

Bokeh

Some fairy lights, shot with the 50mm, f1.8.
http://gizmodo.com/5743842/shooting-challenge-bokeh

I'm not sure if this is working for me.

Check Mate

In the cult film Blade Runner, it has been noted that Dr Tyrell and Sebastian are playing out the last moves of the famous "The Immortal Game". I have this lovely old chess board, which was my father's, and I'd always liked the translucent nature of the pieces.
I've also been tinkering with borders in LightRoom - which is not it's forte, but it works. It seemed fitting to use an old school Polaroid for this shot.
Footnote - it's damn hard to get all the pieces readable in a shot, and have it look half decent - so I gave up.
The pieces of note are the two knights, bishop and queen attacking the black king.