Between the Trees

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This afternoon there was absolutely beautiful light coupled with low lying clouds being funneled up the ravine (i think I can safely call it that – pretty serious depth and very narrow). I had traveled to these falls (Carrington) to try and find a nice location with the fall back option of just taking a cliche shot of the falls, which usually the common lookouts provide, noting that this was a first time I had been here.

The steady wind was flowing around the trees and the mist coming through the scene sporadically, the light last a few minutes and I tried a different composition to try and capture the light, mist and surrounding foliage.

3 shot landscape orientation panorama.
Techie data:
D7000 with Nikkor 17-55 mm f2.8 @ 17mm Aperture: f/13 Shutter 1 seconds
Hoya screw in circular polariser out front.

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.

Plane View

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Head to head with a millipede

Techie data:
D7000 with Nikkor 55mm f2.8 Micro @ 55mm Aperture: f/13 Shutter 1/60 seconds. ISO 1250
SB600 with diffuser and also another diffuser in front of that 🙂 just to make sure things were diffused 🙂

Adelina Falls -Lawson

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So once again, its a friday night and one hands rocking the tickles to sleep which means it must be time for some more image processing, I mean, really what else can i do 😉

I took several images from Adelina Falls in Lawson and I spent quite some time walking around the falls (which incidentally are not very large) to try and find that sweet composition. I even got up around the trees off to the right of this frame to try and encapsulate the entirety of the falls, however it was not to be and as such I opted to chop off the upper part of the falls and work with the lower part at a particular angle where the light created a glow over the veil of water coming down.

This image was a series of vertical portrait orientation shots stitched together, i did actually end up cropping pretty heavily to achieve the composition I wanted, however given the large number of frames this was not a problem (from a resolution POV anyway).

I have been saving this one up trying to work out the best way to process it and capture the rocks on the left and the delicate water flow. A interesting side note, here is another good example of the polariser in action, not so much in a positive sense though. The ferns on the left are nicely 'polarised' and the reflected light removed, however the ferns on the right are not and as such come across more white and washed out..

Techie data:
D7000 with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 11mm- Aperture: f/8 and Shutter Speed: 8s, 1.5s & 30s
out front -Hoya screw in circular polariser and neutral density filter (3 stops).

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.

St George Sailing Club

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They may need some more investment in their jetty facilities 🙂 however in the meantime, it makes for interesting photo compositions

techie stuff:
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ Aperture: f/8 and Shutter Speed: 281.1s
out front – LEE bigstopper and LEE graduated filter 0.9

Weeping rock Pano

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Up close and personal with the Weeping Rock Falls in the Blue Mountains of NSW, Australia.

Where has this location been all my life 😉 ? what a great little set of falls, I could spend all day here, some many great little compositions and angles, from detail to wide angle it has it all and… the big and.. its out in nature and part of a really sweet walk at leura.

Techie data:
4 shot (landscape orientation) panorama.
D7000 with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 11mm Aperture: f/8 Shutter 20 seconds. – Hoya screw in circular polariser and neutral density filter (3 stops)

Upper Cataract Falls – the new ice-skating practice rink ;)

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Mental note for next time – old sneakers with no grip are not the most suitable footwear for traversing a mossy slippery set of falls such as these, how I got to this spot without going arse over tits is beyond me 🙂 I think booties with nails in the bottom would be more useful.

Nonetheless the beautiful deep colour in the rocks and the texture and veins made it worthwhile, not to mention the veil of wispy water flowing over the edge.

Techie data:
4 shot (landscape orientation) panorama.
D7000 with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 11mm Aperture: f/13 Shutter 8, 2 & 30 seconds. – Hoya screw in circular polariser and neutral density filter (3 stops)

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.

Lower Cataract Falls

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A difficult little set of falls to shoot, the time of day and the light made things a bit tricky and as such I opted for a really close tight panorama view to try and convey the scene with its many over hanging ferns, branches and water seemingly dropping from the bright clouded sky.

I could almost reach out and touch the fern on the right, a bracketed panorama to achieve the desired dynamic range and encapsulate the pool and surrounds.

Techie data:
D7000 with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 11mm Aperture: f/8 Shutter 8, 2 & 30 seconds. The bright frame was only used to bring a fraction of detail to that really shadowed overhang to the side of the falls
out front – Hoya screw in circular polariser and neutral density filter (3 stops)

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 Tempe Jetty

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Sydney Park, NSW

or whats left of it 🙂 Well thats my name for it, there is probably some other official symbolic name representing something or rather but stuffed if I know what it is 🙂 There is a sign saying its a swan breeding ground though.. ?! I was hoping for a swan up on one of the poles, but i think i might be asking alittle too much of the poor things 🙂

Panoramic Fern

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This little fern and its mates were the star attraction of my visit to Cataract Falls in Lawson.

This image is an example (of mine) of partially 'seeing' the image before taking it. I saw the fern, the moss and the tiny little falls and associated eddy currents and immediately the panoramic view came to mind first with the fern leading the viewer into the frame and towards the secondary element, the falls. The view inside my head also had this neat 3rd fern swirling around in the little eddy current in the top right of the frame creating a warn tan colour in the water…however after several attempts it was simply not gonna happen:) hence the 'partial seeing' of the image.

This image is actually 3 images stitched together to make the full panoramic format, whilst I probably could have take one shot at 17mm (DX) and got it all in then subsequently cropped, i took the route of 3 stitched images which was easily achievable give the conditions.

(and i did place the fern 🙂 )

Techie data:
D7000 with Tokina 17-55 mm f2.8 @ 45mm Aperture: f/8Shutter 3 seconds
Hoya screw in circular polariser out front.

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.

Panoramic Fern

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This little fern and its mates were the star attraction of my visit to Cataract Falls in Lawson.

This image is an example (of mine) of partially 'seeing' the image before taking it. I saw the fern, the moss and the tiny little falls and associated eddy currents and immediately the panoramic view came to mind first with the fern leading the viewer into the frame and towards the secondary element, the falls. The view inside my head also had this neat 3rd fern swirling around in the little eddy current in the top right of the frame creating a warn tan colour in the water…however after several attempts it was simply not gonna happen:) hence the 'partial seeing' of the image.

This image is actually 3 images stitched together to make the full panoramic format, whilst I probably could have take one shot at 17mm (DX) and got it all in then subsequently cropped, i took the route of 3 stitched images which was easily achievable give the conditions.

(and i did place the fern 🙂 )

Techie data:
D7000 with Tokina 17-55 mm f2.8 @ 45mm Aperture: f/8Shutter 3 seconds
Hoya screw in circular polariser out front.

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.

Progress

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The scene of progress in Botany Bay Sydney, NSW.
Now these gantry thingy's are really cool and make for some sweet photo subjects, whilst dropping past the new container terminal one evening I thought to stop and take a quick snap or two. After setting up on the pedestrian/cycleway overpass I had a visit from some friendly security guards who informed me that it cool to take photos of the new container terminal, but not the old one (left of frame), given that i really don't need ASIO checking up on my ass I said sweet as bro, no probs, i'll just point this way 🙂 and we all went on our merry ways. But it did get me thinking, why the old terminal? maybe its the millions of litres of fuel there? maybe they think people taking photos might be plotting some drug smuggling racket? In all seriousness I guess its fine to say you can't take photos of key industrial sites but only part thereof… confused.

Well, anyways, the sunset was not much to look at but there was a neat storm coming through on the left, if only I had more time 🙂

The Broken Outflow Pipe

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Just a little stormwater outflow line however I would have thought in this day and age we cold have made these things alittle more appealing – that said, i reckon they make awesome photograph subjects 🙂

techie stuff:
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ Aperture: f/8 and Shutter Speed: 244.2s
out front – LEE bigstopper and LEE graduated filter 0.9

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