Bums on the edge

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Flow to me
Sometimes to achieve that composition there is only one way to do it – wet feet and bum out over the edge of the next waterfall, whilst confident that a missplaced step would send me over the edge i had some comfort in the fact it was only a few feet down 😉 not like the falls below that 🙂

Anyway, itsa great little spot Leura Cascades and whilst you can go for the fair-weather positions there is plenty of scope to reach out and pull a composition of the cascades that has some originality to it 🙂

Techie data:
D7000 with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 11mm Aperture: f/8 Shutter 10 seconds
ISO 160 (don't ask me why 🙂 ) this was one of the first shots so the old brain was a bit fuzzy 😉
out front – Hoya screw in circular polariser and neutral density filter (3 stops)

As always, I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed

Cling to Hope

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Hang on to the green stuff man! it only takes a well placed sizeable water drop to knock any one of these little fungi for six 🙂 There were several casualties whilst i was there ;( rip.
Its been awhile since I have chased any fungi and there is something disturbingly refreshing about getting your knees dirty whilst your head is 3 inches from the wet, mossy ground!

Techie data:
D7000 with Nikkor 55mm micro (with missing focus ring 🙂 ) @ 55mm Aperture: f/22, Shutter 1/60 seconds
ISO 800
SB600 on top and foldout diffuser wandering out there from somewhere 😉

I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed 🙂

Green and Gold

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I tried a new processing technique with this one, rather than the usual one handed effort (the other hand is rocking 5.5month old tickles) – which by the way should excuse my terrible spelling and grammar 🙂
anyway,..this time i pulled out the baby carrier, or as i refer to it as..the back killer, clearly not designed for large men….and plonked tickles in it, this means i can process with two hands, spend quality time with tickles and listen to classical whilst she falls asleep…multitasking is my middle name…the other is lazy 😉

In all seriousness, this is another image from Lawson, this great set of falls permits one to easily climb up onto the rock steps and compose as one wishes, in this case I am going through a little pano waterfall phase and as such follows that theme.

3 frame pano image, each frame manually bracketed to achieve the desired dynamic range.

Techie data:
D7000 with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 11mm Aperture: f/8 Shutter 10, 3 & 30 seonds
out front – Hoya screw in circular polariser and neutral density filter (3 stops)

As always, I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed

Narrabeen – contemplation

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After a very wet day there was little promise of a interesting sunset however I have wanted to check out this spot for sunset for sometime and since I was in the area I thought I would give it a go. I reckon its probably one of the most photographed seascape locations in sydney and its hard not to see why, a nice sea pool, a great gorge in the rocks (which is next on the cards for me) and Turimetta just next door 🙂

Conveniently positioned people adds a little interest and there has the slightest hint of colour before it return to a dark and gloomy finish to the day.

Panorama made up of 4 landscape shots stitched in CC.
D7000 coupled with 17-55mm f2.8 @ Aperture: f/8 and Shutter Speed: 1/4s
out front was the LEE graduated filter 0.9 and screw in circular polariser

Last man tree standing

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View large, its a crime to only look at the thumbnail 🙂

Pretty much the first shots of the morning, as you clamber over dead wood dodging spider webs laid out over night this is the first isolated tree out in the bay. The tide was coming in, which I noticed very quickly since between the first shot and last shot of this pano the tripod was being inundated. The second issue was after the first shot the mozzies tracked me down and proceeded to make a meal of my legs..and it was certainly a serious meal ;(

It was only about 30 minutes before sunrise but the subtle hues of the blue night sky and the golden horizon were disappearing fast, this image was made from 3 landscape orientation images stitched together in PS CC.

techie stuff:
D7000 coupled with 17-55mm f2.8 @ Aperture: f/16 and Shutter Speed: 30s
out front – LEE bigstopper, LEE graduated filter 0.9 and screw in circular polariser

I do appreciate all the feedback people leave and do very much appreciate those who go out of their way to critique and provide suggestions to my images.
I do try and at respond to everyone 🙂 Rest assured I am always checking out my commenters streams (when i probably should be doing something else 🙂 ) even when I don't directly respond 🙂

The Weeping Swirls

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The beautiful thing about the Weeping Falls (or as I know them the lower Bridal Veil falls) is the amount of different perspectives on the falls, over on the left crouched between a few rocks I noticed this nice little eddy current swirling around (only after taking the first 30 second shot 🙂 )

The lush green foliage, the fog and the filtered light worked perfectly to light the scene, even at 30 seconds it was a striggle to capture all the shadow detail.

Techie data:
D7000 with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 11mm Aperture: f/9.5
out front – Hoya screw in circular polariser and neutral density filter (3 stops)

As always, I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed

Night to Day

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A fairly simple image 🙂 at f19 and 1.5secs, graduated ND filter on the front to bring the brightness of the sky down a bit. I really just wanted that little bit of movement in the water , however the timing of the waves resulted in these two rather dark bands, which for me create a kind of visual block in the image, the dead stump on the left adds a little interest but also feels like a distraction, thoughts?

Brisvegas

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and the ever changing Story Bridge – for this shot I had just picked a gap between all the cranes busily repairing/replacing (yes at night) the old flood ravaged portions of the river walk.

No filters, just a bunch of portrait orientation images stitched together.

Inside the Upper Gledhill Falls

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(sorry for the re-upload – i had a crappy low resolution version before)
View large now 🙂

A very beautiful rocky over hang at these falls, perfect for escaping the light rain. I am sure I was not the only one under this overhang 😉 it would be a great place for bats and all other manner of local wildlife to gain respite.

5 landscape orientation images (bracketed) stitched together and manually blended – just to preserve some of that natural dynamic range, probably could have achieved pretty much the same result with a single exposure.

Techie data:
D7000 with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 16mm Aperture: f/8
out front – Hoya screw in circular polariser and neutral density filter (3 stops)

As always, I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed!

http://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/ku-ring-gai-chase-national-park/

*Where's wally i mean Rodney +Rodney Campbell *

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and bonus points if you can find our pushbikes 🙂

From a recent stormy session at the RNP, this image was taken between some minor shows and ducking in and out of cover on a precarious little ledge.

8 odd portrait orientation images stitched together.

Techie data:
D7000 with Nikkor 17-55mm f2.8 hanging off the front @ Aperture: f/8 and Shutter Speed: 1.5s
out front -Hoya screw in circular polariser.

As always, I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed!

Junction Falls

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A real gem of a falls, reminded me of the falls down in Valley of the Waters, jet black rock with whispers of water drifting over the edge to finally tumble gently on golden paths

lots of landscape shots stitched together to provide a panoramic view of this falls, 5 images from memory.

Techie data:
D7000 with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 12mm Aperture: f/8 and Shutter Speed: 6s
out front – Hoya screw in circular polariser and neutral density filter (3 stops)

As always, I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed!