Multi-tasking

Now who say men can't do this? 🙂 here is a prime example for the record, whilst editing this photo with one hand (mouse) i was rocking tickles (nearly 3 months old now) to sleep (which only took 30 minutes 🙂 ) and discussing the finer points of why chaos (4 year old) should go to sleep even though she was sleepy but her feet were wide awake, ie walking around at 8:30pm – this rates up there with some of the best of a 4 yro's logic.
Here another example:

chaos: 'dad, ya know what'
me: 'what?'
chaos: 'we should get a icecream'
me: 'no'
chaos: 'but it s really hot day and it will cool me down'
me: 'nope, drink some water.'
chaos: 'i'll share it with you'
me: 'no'
chaos: 'it will help me go to sleep.'
and it goes on 🙂

anyway back to the multi-tasking…

Sugarloaf Lighthouse

Processing nightmare – if anyone has any good tips for making HDR panos, I am all ears – i usually either use PTGUI to stitch a HDR with blend planes etc (preferred) or HDR individual bracketed images then stitch (in PS with HDRefx) – however the latter is very limiting since the HDR does alot of the work and I prefer to manually blend my exposures..

It also does not help that I had to take it with a UWA, around 13mm, there is plenty of artifacts and I had to spend a overly onerous amount of time trying to fix things, the sun looks crap and the red just seems off aarrghh – oh well, next time..

Tunnel Inrush

This was a morning of a 0.5 metre swell (as advertised), I can only imagine what it would be like in even just a mild swell.

The pin point of light you can see is a tunnel out into the ocean, the swell you can see is probably 1.5 metres, I was on a rock about 2 metres up (a very sharp one at that 🙂 ) and was getting splashed.

Scale

View large – what i really like about this place was the diversity of the rocks, from the smooth polished rocks in the foreground to the angry and very sharp serrated black rocks in the ocean. Whilst not quite achieving the composition I had in my head, i still liked the lack of scale that the image portrays and also clash of the rock types melded together by the long exposure water.
note the access pole running between the two big rocks in the centre..a bit of balance beam anyone? 😉

Dunbogan and the cranky clouds

Don't let the name turn you off – prime realestate and some cliffs (behind the shot) that are to die for.

What I find really amazing about doing seascape sessions is the variations in the rock, in the space of only 25 kms the rock on the headlands can change from basalt (well i think its basalt, its black and smooth and fing slippery) to this kind of conglomerate rock.

Probably a geologists dream 😉 Anyway some cranky clouds.

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Private Jetty

A view from one of the many corners of Queenslake, I quite liked the funky cloud formations and the mirroring effect on the horizon.

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