Fishing at Snapper Point
I dunno whether the fishing is really any good here, but everytime I head out this way there is always a plethora of boats just off the coast trying their luck.
See if you can spot the rock fisherman, hes pretty small in the frame, and the only other dude (besides me) to be silly to be out at this early hour. 🙂
Exif love:
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f14 and Shutter Speed: 30s
ISO 100
Out front – Lee Graduated Filter 0.6x and Hoya CPL
The very most southern point of Chinamans beach and the limit of where you can go unless you have 'authorised access' to enter the bombing range 😉 I have always found these kind of signs quite humorous, since they will often state you must be authorised.. well it does not say I can't authorise my ass over the line :). This place did have a slightly expanded version of.. 'proof shall lie upon him'.. referring to the authorisation.. I did think that if it was a woman you would be sweet, it does not apply 😉
I am sure the lawyers would disagree with me tho…
It was a bland morning (the next was absolutely stella, yes I was in bed for that one!)
but the low tide flows were interesting and I did not mind the warm sunshine from the rising sun it did at the very least create some nice tone in the sky.
Exif love:
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f22 and Shutter Speed: 3s
ISO 100
Out front – Lee Graduated Filter 0.6x and Hoya CPL
D750 coupled with 16-35mm f4 @ 18mm Aperture: f/18and Shutter Speed: 1s
ISO: 100
out front – Lee Graduated Filter (0.9x) and a polariser (HOYA screw in)
I could not actually decide which I liked the most – hence when in doubt, just throw it all in 🙂 well in this case into a triptych.
I think its also a good example of how water movement and flow in a scene can change the overall feel look of the image. There was no change in the shutter speed, just in the timing of when to take the frame.
Can you pick which way the water is going in each frame? (in or out) which looks better? I typically find that taking the frame with the water flowing out seems to give better lines – this is not a hard and fast rule tho. Another important benefit of using the outflow is that your not crapping yourself when the big swamper comes thru and you got your eye plastered in the viewfinder trying to get that sweet frame and then blam 😉
Exif/setup love:
D750 coupled with 16-35mm f4 @ 18mm Aperture: f/18and Shutter Speed: 1s
ISO: 100
out front – Lee Graduated Filter (0.9x) and a polariser (HOYA screw in)
D750 coupled with 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f/14 and Shutter Speed: 20s, 1.6s, 8s and 4s
out front – Lee Graduated Filter (0.9x) and Hoya CPL.
no time to burn
It feels like about 12 midnight and and I hear my youngest daughter, tickles aka Mayhem, stirring in cot, there was a little too much fun at the beach the day before and a bit too much heat for the little tacker which meant for a restless night – after 10 minutes of gerry’s pro rocking and soothing skills she was back down for another round of sleep and i thought, ‘sweet i gotta plenty of hours before my alarm goes off for my sunrise session’ 🙂
However low and behold, what felt like literally 5 minutes and the alarm goes off and its 4:30 am…. damn…I lay there for several minutes contemplating whether the sunrise is gonna be worthwhile and whether I should get those extra 2 hours of sleep… as it happens, a few days before I had woken up early with the girls (chaos and mayhem) and we all watched the most spectacular sunrise I had ever seen, from the lounge room window 🙂
I dragged myself from the bed with my ninja sleath skills and promptly cracked my head on the door as trying to carry my camera bag out in the dark, but luck was on my side and tickles remained asleep.. well long enough for me to bail 😉
A short drive to Chinamans beach and i noticed the colour developing in the sky, awww man this means I am gonna have to run to get to my sunrise spot, with the camera bag on and the anti-spider equipment deployed I started a jog down to the beach…jeez..i should have layed off that crackling from christmas ;(
I love seascapes, i love sunrise, i do it all even in light of the lack of sleep and the pain of getting up and getting to a place.. the moment the suns colour develops and the morning starts it simply rejuvenates my soul. Standing alone with nothing but the sea washing up and the sound of peddles rolling in the surf there is a sense of calm and control about the world…
Techie love:
4 frames, manually blended in Adobe Photoshop, i could just about do it with one shot, however i wanted to maintain that rich colour in the horizon where the sun was poking up and also the shadow detail in the pebbles in the foreground.
D750 coupled with 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f/14 and Shutter Speed: 20s over exposed shot (foreground rocks), 1.6s underexposed (for the sun and horizon) and 8s and 4s just to capture that nice blue in the sky which was a bit dark from the graduated filter.
out front – Lee Graduated Filter (0.9x) and Hoya CPL.