Salvation - (c) 2014 gerard Blacklock

Salvation lies from within

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Clarity comes from moments alone
Welcome to the Little Bay 😉

Little Bay is one of those little gems of locations in Sydney, a relatively large stretch of coastline dominated by the Golf Course (s) which has it all from rock shelves, to cliffs to sheltered beaches and most importantly of all, pretty darn quiet, for Sydney anyway 😉

Single frame.
Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 13 mm Aperture: f/9.5 and Shutter Speed: 1/30 of a second
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.

Colour or BW

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Fallen

Thoughts? I like the colour, however I feel the BW version simplifies the image and concentrates more on the composition and tree roots which for me was the main anchor poitn of the image. Note, the composition is not that terribly good in my opinion 😉 The intention was to try and utilise the roots to lead up thru the image to the waterfall.

3 shot blended image.
Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @11mm Aperture: f/8 and Shutter Speed: 4s, 1s and 15 seconds
out front – HOYA ND filter and screw in HOYA circular polariser

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

Texture – smooth vs bumpy

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Just like where there is a light side, there is a dark and cold side – where there is smoothness, roughness is nearby.

There was difficulty tracking down a interesting foreground to match the sky here, however, one must always make do with what is there – watch for the next one with a dinky little oyster, high and dry 🙂

Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with Nikkor 17-55mm f2.8 @ 17mm Aperture: f/8 and Shutter Speed: 248.3s
out front – LEE Bigstopper, 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.

A continuation of the Midday Seascapes – Coalcliff

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Following on from a midday long exposure (see here: https://plus.google.com/100975265940134223422/posts/cM1zHFriUgD)

I thought a seascape with only a second or so of shutter was appropriate, to achieve this I stancked the LEE graduated filters (0.9 and 0.6) with the 0.6 pulled over the entirety of the lens, thus providing some extra stoppages. This with the circular polariser was enough to get me to 1 second.

Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @11mm Aperture: f/19 and Shutter Speed: 1s
out front – LEE Bigstopper, LEE graduated filter 0.9 and 0.6 and screw in circular polariser

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

Building the Barangaroo Planetoid

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Count the cranes
So, they reckon the buildings have apparently doubled in size since the original design proposal – well, the proof will be in the pudding I suppose, not long now before this skyline is changed forever. Get in while you can for your non-developed Barangaroo Pano or planetoid 😉

7 Frame landscape orientation panorama. Each frame was bracketed -2, 0 & +2 stops.
Pano stitched as 3 layers, blended automatically, flipped, polar coordinates applied then resized back to a square format.
Techie data:
D7000 with Nikkor 17-55 mm f2.8 @ 24mm Aperture: f/8 Shutter 6, 1.5 & 20 seconds
Out front: sweet nothing 🙂

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.

The Boss is home

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These things give a nasty sting apparently.
Techie data:
D7000 with Nikkor Micro 55 mm f2.8 @ 55mm Aperture: f/16 Shutter 1/60 seconds
Up top: SB600 flash with a stofen diffuser and also a little fan thingy diffuser.

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.

Eurovision

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These are our euro-vision faces 😉
The only one you need to know about is the middle one, which was for Sweden!

don't ask why I was watching Eurovision?! i could not tear myself away 😉

Welcome Home

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Even if it is hours late :-/ I am damn tired of late planes, I expect that from deathstar not qantasre.

Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with Nikkor 300mm f/4 @ surprise surprise, 300mm, oh wait, I lie, it was with a 1.4 TC that makes it 420mm 🙂 Aperture: f/6.7 and Shutter Speed: 1/1500s and ISO 800
out front: nothing but glass 🙂

How the other Half Live

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Towra Nature Reserve – home of the Little Tern bird
This point has been reamed by humans, from attempted grazing, corn crops, to a radar station to oyster farming and finally recognized as a significant wetlands of the Sydney Basin with a little island now home to a thriving population of Little Terns 🙂 and the occasional pelican.

3 shot landscape orientation panorama.
Techie data:
D7000 with Nikkor 135mm f2 @ 135mm Aperture: f/11 Shutter 1/90 seconds

panorama

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.

The Darkes Swirl

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The dynamic range here was pretty large , just that section in the top part of the frame needed some extra help hence the multiple exposures, below that point it was pretty much a single exposure. I really wanted to capture a small amount of that dappled light filtering thru the rocks and trees to illuminate and provide a glow at the top of the frame.

The swirl in the foreground did not really want to play ball, it took several attempts to try and capture a circular motion however, nature wanted more dogbone shapes etc… :-/

Techie data:
D7000 with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 11mm – Aperture: f/16 and Shutter Speed: 16s, 4s & 1s
out front -Hoya screw in circular polariser and Hoya ND8 Neutral Density filter

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.

Jervis Bay Vs Botany Bay

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Jervis Bay vs Botany Bay - (c) Gerard Blacklock

Artist license is something every tog uses, whether it simply be the way a image is framed or the way it is processed, images can and do lie 🙂 – this one is no exception, this spot on the East side of Botany bay is probably the only spot I have seen that is not strewn with washed up bottles, rubbish and general crap, just the other morning I was standing in a spot several kilometers to the south of here and all around me on the shoreline was all manner of rubbish – and that was in the Nature Reserve section of the Bay 🙂 So, this is not really a true representation of the true nature of Botany Bay.

However, I have chosen to try and portray this particular composition as something one would see at Jervis bay, a place which I wish I could visit more often 🙂 For those not familiar with Jervis Bay, it does apparently have some of the white-ist sand in Aussie land and whilst a bit full of old naval junk it is pretty clean 😉

So here you have it, Botany Bay, from Kurnell, the city lights and new shipping terminal just in sight on the horizon.

4 shot landscape orientation panorama.
Techie data:
D7000 with Nikkor 17-55 mm f2.8 @ 17mm Aperture: f/8 Shutter 2 seconds
LEE Graduated Filter out front.

panorama

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.