Bento box, climb to the top, scope out the lay of the land and then use those hills for the real reason they were put there……
….home and straight to sleep
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Home Time
Home Time – (c) Gerard Blacklock
D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8 @ 24mm Aperture: f13 and Shutter Speed: 2.5s
ISO 100
Out front – LEE graduated 0.9x filter and CPL
Exif love:
D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8 @ 24mm Aperture: f13 and Shutter Speed: 2.5s
ISO 100
Out front – LEE graduated 0.9x filter and CPL
Chaos vs Tree
Chaos vs Tree – (c) Gerard Blacklock
Chaos 1.. tree 0.
I do like how the dress is like a camo and blends in with the tree, mum not so happy about climbing in trees with such a nice dress 😉
Sunday Park Sessions
Sydney park Sessions – (c) Gerard Blacklock
4 frames stitched together and a few strays cloned out 😉
D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8 @ 70mm Aperture: f5 and Shutter Speed: 1/160s
ISO 400
Out front – CPL only
Sometimes.. and only sometimes do things in life (with kids) line up nicely, this was one such time and it has nothing to do with the people in the image 🙂
I noted earlier on in the arvo, whilst chained to my domestic duties, that the clouds were pretty cool, as luck would have it, Chaos and tickles were both pretty zonked from a big day at the zoo yesterday so it was off to bed during the daylight hours for them 🙂 and at 6:30pm.. yes you read that right! i was cruising to the park with both girls in bed asleep (some credit to the better half there too i suppose ; ) ) which meant I got there just in time for some very cool clouds and sunset 🙂
Exif love:
4 frames stitched together and a few strays cloned out 😉
D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8 @ 70mm Aperture: f5 and Shutter Speed: 1/160s
ISO 400
Out front – CPL only
Punching on into the blue yonder
Punching onto the Blue Yonder – (c) Gerard Blacklock
not quite
I certainly hope his weather radar view looked better than it looked from down here 🙂
I have arrived
I Have Arrived – (c) Gerard Blacklock
D750 coupled with Samyang 14mm f2.8 @ 14mm
Each trail image is 40.2s
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO 800
out front – sculptures by the sea art with a bit of EL wire and coloured torch
112 34 images, loaded into PS via statistics (maximum), cleaned up the plane trails and few annoying clouds then blended via the lighten mode.
Foreground shot is a separate image, from the same spot with some light painting.
Cheers to Rodney for reminding about this session – i only processed one picture from it last year 🙂
Exif / shot love:
D750 coupled with Samyang 14mm f2.8 @ 14mm
Each trail image is 40.2s
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO 800
out front – sculptures by the sea art with a bit of EL wire and coloured torch
The Rise of King Coal
King Coal – (c) Gerard Blacklock
D750 coupled with Samyang 14mm f2.8 @ 14mm Aperture: f/5.6 and Shutter Speed: 355.8 seconds
ISO 100
out front – sculptures by the sea art with a bit of EL wire and coloured torch
Sculptures by the Sea at Bondi/Tamarama 2015
King Coal, coal, resin, fibreglass and steel, 172 x 101 x 119 cm
An arrogant, larger than life figure representing Australia’s reliance on coal
“I wanted to anthropomorphise coal. The figure needed to exude arrogance, an unwillingness to change and seem unaware of his impending doom.”
I reckon the evening clouds streaking across the sky compliment this sculpture and the artists vision, one of many unprocessed images from last year 🙂
Exif / shot love:
D750 coupled with Samyang 14mm f2.8 @ 14mm Aperture: f/5.6 and Shutter Speed: 355.8 seconds
ISO 100
out front – sculptures by the sea art with a bit of EL wire and coloured torch
We all bleed
We all Bleed – (C) Gerard Blacklock
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f16 and Shutter Speed: 30 seconds
ISO 100
Out front – LEE GND (0.9x)
I saw on some news/photography website yesterday that the famous ‘Philosophers Tree’ had been cut down by the farmer who owned the land where the tree was. If you have never seen a image of this tree, be sure to do a quick google and check it out, it is a wonderful subject, or at least it was.
Sadly, the reason for chopping it down, was ( it appears) partly due to the fact that so many photographers trespassed on his land..
Pretty sad state of affairs, but if that is the case, i cannot blame him, just shows you can love a tree to death I suppose.
So, in memory of the Philosophers Tree, here is my tribute, a shot taken when I was searching for those lone mangrove trees (https://plus.google.com/+GerardBlacklock/posts/QcPubRyxLiS).
it was also between getting rained on, eaten by mozzies and contemplating just getting the car and grabbing a coffee instead.. i would have, but the coffee shop was not open yet 🙁
Exif love 😉
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f16 and Shutter Speed: 30 seconds
ISO 100
Out front – LEE GND (0.9x)
Don’t Stare at the light
Don’t Stare at the light – (C) Gerard Blacklock
Don’t Stare at the light
Somersby Panorama
Somersby Panorama – (c) Gerard Blacklock
12 vertical frames
D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8 @ 36mm Aperture: f18 and Shutter Speed: 4s
exposure comp -0.3EV
ISO 100
Wow, i just updated to the latest version of Adobe Lightroom, yeah i know I am a bit behind the times 🙂 I gotta say tho, someone really turned the wick up on the slider options, previously you could smash the slider to 100 and it would not have a huge effect, now its like they have dialed it up another 100 percent 😉
Anyway enough of that boring stuff and onto the image 🙂 I have had this one sitting around for a few weeks and finally got around to stitching it, I quite like the composition and I am really liking the challenge of approaching scenes with the idea to include some big foreground objects, like the big rock on the right. In this case the rock on the right is actually the one I am sitting on to capture the panorama, its pretty close to a 180 degrees field of view and normally without using a pano head and rail it would be quite difficult get a undistorted easy stitch, this is where I find the pano equipment is really useful.
This particular part of Somersby falls is very popular and it is easy to get to, i always find it a nice rewarding spot with plenty of options for new and different perspectives, if your passing by on the M1 motorway, be sure to swing off the fast lane and have a look.
#somersbyfalls #somersby
Exif love:
12 vertical frames
D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8 @ 36mm Aperture: f18 and Shutter Speed: 4s
exposure comp -0.3EV
ISO 100
Out front – Hoya CPL
Reverse Grad Cloud
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f18 and Shutter Speed: 1s
ISO 100
Out front – Hoya CPL and LEE GND (0.9x) and natural reverse grad 🙂
For those who are not in the know about filters for cameras – oh yes we use those to distort reality too 😉 A reverse graduated filter is simply a filter which darkens the sky and then also has a even darker band that can be aligned with the horizon to really reduce the exposure on the sun (the brightest part of the scene) during those sunrise and sunset time, those leave one with a nicely exposed frame.
Now, i don’t have one of these since they are pretty specialised and really can only be used in a few cases anyway – you can also replicate the filter with a couple of normal graduated filters…
anyway there is a point to all that, there are some mornings when the cloud and sun gods shine upon you (hahaha did see what I did there 😉 ) and you get a scene like this where the band of cloud along the horizon provides you with a natural part of the reverse graduated filter 🙂
nicely played clouds and sun 🙂 its a bit of boring composition but I could not really find anything else nearby to jazz it up and by the time I would have climbed down the rocks the light could have been all gone 🙂
Exif love 😉
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f18 and Shutter Speed: 1s
ISO 100
Out front – Hoya CPL and LEE GND (0.9x) and natural reverse grad 🙂
Little Tree @ Little Bay
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f14 and Shutter Speed: 2.5s
ISO 100
Out front – Hoya CPL and LEE GND (0.9x)
I love my lonely trees on hills – this one is part of the golf course at Little Bay. I was visiting there with +Rodney Campbell , +Tom Testone and +Kitten KaboodleInc and I noticed that were some pink pastels developing off to the west so a quick change of location and position I got this tree nicely silhouetted, the pastels did not really eventuate, however it was a bit of bonus to get the moon in there too.
Exif love 😉
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f14 and Shutter Speed: 2.5s
ISO 100
Out front – Hoya CPL and LEE GND (0.9x)
The opposite of long is short
Exif love:
3 frames stitched together
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35mm f4 @ 24mm Aperture: f18 and Shutter Speed: 1/2s
ISO 100
Out front – CPL and Lee Graduated Filter 0.9X
big, bold and bright
The shot before this one
https://plus.google.com/+GerardBlacklock/posts/E91Wh8Xf2Aq
slightly wider, taken as 3 shots to get a slightly wider view on things, mainly to just capture the sun in the frame as well.
Exif love:
3 frames stitched together
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35mm f4 @ 24mm Aperture: f18 and Shutter Speed: 1/2s
ISO 100
Out front – CPL and Lee Graduated Filter 0.9X
Energy to Burn
Energy to Burn – (c) Gerard Blacklock
So, its the end of the weekend, well it is for the folk in this timezone 🙂 and I gotta say, its probably lucky the weekend is only 2 days long, I don’t think I could physically take much more than that 😉
Amongst the plethora of activities this weekend was a visit to the Sydney Botanic Gardens where they are celebrating the centenary of a whole bunch of trees, I always enjoy the gardens, there is always something new to see and its a great place for a picnic, i think I can even get over the cost of parking nearby, but I guess there is always a premium price for convenience.
So, wandering on through the gardens Chaos had a whole bunch of questions (per usual and at the usual rapid fire rate), one of which was, ‘how do you know how old the trees are’ sounds sensible, i dunno really know, thankfully the good folk at the gardens had made this answer somewhat easier with little special signs on trees which had clocked over 100 years. Some highlights were the big Hoop Pines and the weird looking cedar tree, i think we came up with a pretty good gauge for a old tree, if you can’t reach around it, its probably pretty old 😉
Now the next question which had a fair amount of currency was, ‘can i climb this one?’ to which the response was, ‘if it ‘aint in a garden then yes’
So in typical Chaos style, no shoes and no fear she was into them 🙂 This tree was a South American variety, the name which slips my mind atm. But it had these awesome roots which were just perfect for climbing up into the tree.
If you do check them out, be sure to have a look at the native Australian bees (non stinging too) they have a great hive there where you can get up close and personal to them.
Exif love:
D750 coupled with Nikkor 85mm f1.4 @ 85mm Aperture: f2.8 and Shutter Speed: 1/250s
ISO 640
Out front: chaos and the tree
Side-washed
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f11 and Shutter Speed: lotsa seconds 🙂 246.8 seconds to be exact
ISO 200
Out front – Lee Bigstopper, Hoya CPLand LEE GND (0.9x)
I have a whole bunch of titles for this one, but really the only appropriate one is side-washed, ’cause I did end up getting soaked from a incoming sneaky side wave 🙂 conveniently enough, the exposure had just finished when the wave hit so this is the resultant shot, not my favorite from a long shot, but I will remember it 🙂
It did also provide a good incentive to actually give my camera bag and other non electronic items a good run thru the washing machine, so i now have a bag that smells like daisy’s, rather than stinky dad smell, as coined by Chaos 😉 ..I have to admit it did smell a bit like back sweat 😉
Cheers to the Rodney, Tom and Kitten for the company, was good to meet up and we must do it again 🙂
Exif love 😉
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f11 and Shutter Speed: lotsa seconds 🙂 246.8 seconds to be exact
ISO 200
Out front – Lee Bigstopper, Hoya CPLand LEE GND (0.9x)