The Opaque World

Posted on January 24, 2014 by gerry

Its like a mesmerizing blurry mirror that you can't tear your eyes away from, each second the shape, colour and contrast change as the light refracts through the ebbing water.

The light was fading very fast and the colour disappearing just as quick, i could see the campfire ablaze in the distance and a clinking of beer bottles was calling. Rather than wait the 2 minutes at f/16 for the bright exposure i took 3 frames at different apertures all at 30 seconds as a means to expedite my parched throat to the waiting beer. Said goodbye to the shy crabs and took another single frame before trekking back to the pinpoint of light that was our campsite.

Similarly to the last image, I processed it in Nik HDR efex pro2 using pretty much the same custom preset, now dubbed 'gerry's dark one' then finished off in my usual process.

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ʎ flow

Posted on January 19, 2014 by gerry

Termeil Point

One of the best camp spots on the South Coast of NSW, Australia, it takes a bit to get in there and its pretty popular during school holidays, but for very good reason.

Mist/spray on the filters – probably one of the hardest, if not impossible defects to correct in post processing. There is alot to be said for just taking the 5 minutes in the field to take the filter off and clean it, in alot of scenarios it does not really matter, ie low dynamic range larger apertures etc, however at small apertures pointing into the sun or scenes with high dynamic range it can pretty well ruin a image

Posted on January 16, 2014 by gerry

This image I pretty well gave up to the seascape gods but thought i might just process it and see what happens. It was after all just a frame which i turned around and shot while walking to another spot, the sun set was looking pretty nice in that corner of the sky and there was some nice foreground albeit it busy.

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The Flour Mill

Posted on October 18, 2013 by gerry

Part of the Mill which stopped use in the 1980's and turned into a studio, in 2007 it was converted into apartments and a more flashy studio 🙂

Great old building with lots of interest, seen here backdropped with the smoke from the recent fires in greater sydney.

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Burnt

Posted on October 3, 2013 by gerry

for something slightly different on the Long Exposure front.

Dark times ahead

Posted on September 20, 2013 by gerry

I missed the good flow here, there was some nice waves coming in but my patience was low and sure enough the moment i walked away the perfect wave turned up. Next time.

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