welcome to the morning
I was just saying to +Suren J before I took this shot that i really needed another wave like the awesome one that crashed over before to make anything of this spot, well the sea won this time, i did not have the patience to wait for the next big wave set to roll thru .:)
Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @11mm Aperture: f/8 and Shutter Speed: 0.5s
out front – LEE graduated filter 0.9 + 0.6 and screw in circular polariser
buy your ticket from ticketek 😉
A pretty famous spot just off Narabeen behind the pool, you need a ticket to shoot this place, even on a quiet day or a day with mediorce conditions you will be assured to find a photographer out trying to nail the next best shot.
It is a pretty photogenic channel and there is a conveniently placed pool inflow/outflow pipe for which one could only imagine designed and placed with the photographer in mind!
I had to clone all the other photographers out 🙂
Single frame
Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @13mm Aperture: f/8 and Shutter Speed: 74s
out front – LEE graduated filter 0.9 and screw in circular polariser
This dude was fighting a big fish (Tailor apparently) just before this image
Cheers for the company +Suren J and +Rodney Campbell.
Single frame
Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @18mm Aperture: f/8 and Shutter Speed: 3s
out front – LEE graduated filter 0.9 & 0.6 and screw in circular polariser
As always, I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed.
by the pole of death
I did want to take a selfie next to that pole of death out there (bit of pole work and all)…. but i did not want to get my toes wet 🙂 next time.
Heavy cloud on the horizon muted most of the sunrise and most of the Focus crew packed up early and headed for the cafe.
Single frame
Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @16mm Aperture: f/9.5 and Shutter Speed: 256.9s
out front – LEE graduated filter 0.9, LEE bigstopper and screw in circular polariser
As always, I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed.
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A field of oversized bunnies full of hot air 🙂 where did all the people go?
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+Vivid Sydney +VividSydneyFans
crocs vs helicopter
Its not often I post a image that is not mine and as such full disclosure, I did not take this – however I do know the source of the image but that's as far as it goes 🙂
View Large and fill that 16:9 screen with what its meant to be filled with – panorama love 🙂
Fishermen have featured pretty heavily in my images recently, I guess its just about them being in the right place at the right time 🙂
In this instance it was a lone fisherman on the edge of the rocks, whilst it may look somewhat dangerous, the place where he is standing is quite sheltered and at this tide level does not get too hectic 🙂 I really wanted to convey that sense of small-ness against the sunrise and sea, probably the real point is that I could not be arsed changing to a longer focal length lens 🙂 I did also want to get down lower to get him more silhouetted against the sky, however time did not permit it.
Techie data:
4 shot panorama (2 brackets per shot)
D7000 with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 16mm- Aperture: f/8 and Shutter Speed: 4seconds & ?
out front – Hoya screw-in Circular Polariser (CPL) and LEE Graduated filter (0.9)
I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed and always appreciate the time people take to have a look, plus and/or comment.
Vividelicious
Whilst it was a beautiful morning, these fishermen only had meagre luck, a few smallish barely legal size bream, after a short discussion, we were agreed it did not matter on a such a beautiful morning
Similar to a previous shot (https://plus.google.com/100975265940134223422/posts/MG2VGyeN62n), however of a panoramic view, I prefer my vertical composition, mainly since its was quicker to process than this 5 shot one 🙂
Techie data:
5 shot bracketed panorama (5 sets of 3 images, manually blended together)
D7000 with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 16mm- Aperture: f/16 and Shutter Speed: 01/3s, 1/10s & 1.5s
out front – LEE Graduated filter (0.9)
I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed and always appreciate the time people take to have a look, plus and/or comment.
only 15 billion more vivid images to go thru and I am tired of them already sigh..
I bet ya'all are tired of vivid images by now!
Beachmere
A variation on the recent subject tree, in this case I really wanted to portray what I had just spent the last 15 minutes walking over, a mix shells delicately placed in the mud by the recently receding tide.
3 shot manually blended image
D7000 with Nikkor 17-55mm f2.8 @ 17mm- Aperture: f/9.5 and Shutter Speed: 4, 8 &15 seconds
out front – absolutely nothing
As always, I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed.
View Large and fill that 16:9 screen with what its meant to be filled with – panorama love 🙂
Just as the storm rolled over, well not quite a storm but certainly enough rain to make it uncomfortable – I noticed a dinky little glow on the horizon and madly setup a shot with my back to rain to try and get something without covering the camera in rain.
Oddly enough 2 minutes later the sun poked its head thru the clouds for a brief moment, standby by for that shot 🙂
I only had to clone out about 15 million water droplet marks on my filter when processing this one 🙂
Techie data:
5 shot panorama
D7000 with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 13mm- Aperture: f/8 and Shutter Speed: 2seconds
out front – LEE 0.6 (0.9 was soaked with rain by this point) Graduated filter and Screw in HOYA circular polariser
Cheers to the fisherman out today, provide a much needed anchor point for my image. This was a moody overcast morning with the good chaps and ladies from the Focus Photography Group.
Single frame
Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @11mm Aperture: f/8 and Shutter Speed: 4s
out front – LEE graduated filter 0.9 and screw in circular polariser
As always, I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed.
View Large and fill that 16:9 screen with what its meant to be filled with – panorama love 🙂
A number of lessons I learnt (or re-learnt) on this day 😉 1) A camera lens continue to fog up for a good 15 or 20 minutes if it has been stored in a airconditioned room at 18 degrees then brought out in the QLD winter weather that is 27degrees (yeah thats winter lol) – and that was with only 50% humidity! doh.
2) just because its mud does not mean the oyster shells don't hurt any less when you walk on them in bare feet 😉 3) Damn mozzies in QLD are freakin insane..wear insect repellant fullstop.
I love this tree, its so photogenic, i would walk over oyster shells with no shoes to even photograph it, oh wait… i did that 😉
My last visit to this awesome spot was timed at high tide, see here:
https://plus.google.com/100975265940134223422/posts/d7AcfUcRSop
This time it was low tide and I had 40 minutes or so to burn so I took the opportunity to get out on the mud flat and get up close to my favorite tree – rest assured, I will be back for more when the opportunity arises 🙂
I think this is a great example of image that you can take without any special equipment, this was with no filters, no polariser, no bracketed shots – it was simply the right time of day with the right light and right place.
Techie data:
3 shot panorama (probably should have added a few frames for some more overlap – but i was being carried away by mozzies)
D7000 with Nikkor 17-55mm f2.8 @ 19mm- Aperture: f/9.5 and Shutter Speed: 4 seconds
out front – absolutely nothing but gerry madly wiping the lens to get the condensation off it 😉
I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed and always appreciate the time people take to have a look, plus and/or
This was a quick grab shot between a locations, I could not resist that little gravel path and perfectly placed podium aka golf tee-off. The possibilities are endless here, however must be done before the early golfers turn up 😉
The couple of golf courses over this way really do command a pretty serious section of coast and make for scenic golf games, well when the weather is fair anyway. I can only imagine with a stiff sea breeze things could get interesting 🙂
3 frame Manual Blend.
Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 11 mm Aperture: f/8 and Shutter Speed: 8s, 20s (foreground) and 4s
out front – LEE 0.9 Graduated filter and Screw in HOYA circular polariser
As always, I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed.