I have been burning to use that title for ages 🙂
Single frame
Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @11mm Aperture: f/11 and Shutter Speed: 30s
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
In hindsight, I think a selfie with me out on the… rocky outcropping.. would have made for a cool shot, oh well, next time 🙂
But how neat are all these colours on the rock, from warm golds to fresh greens, top stuff nature, nicely done there and I'll be back for more 🙂
A nice little outcropping on the 'Little Gibber' – a strangely knob shaped out cropping in the otherwise bare smooth beach line..
Single frame
Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @11mm Aperture: f/11 and Shutter Speed: 182.5s
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
big sky
Strangely enough one of my most complex images (bracketed panorama) but I am far from happy with the end result, I looked at this set of images (to become a panorama) on the back of the camera LCD and thought, yeah thats pretty sweet, but the processing and trying to get the final image to match my vision on the day proved impossible.
The scene actually has some brillant golden colours in the sky but I could not get it to work with the dark monotone of the foreground, finally I gave up and opted for a BW image, it retains and accentuates the main elements (texture and human forms) and that seemed like a pretty good starting point – I think it can hold its own without needing brilliant colour.
I welcome any suggestions, comments and thoughts about this image, ya gotta view large too btw.
Techie data:
4 shot panorama (each frame bracketed)
D7000 with Nikkor 85mm f1.4 @ 85mm – Aperture: f/8 and Shutter Speed: 1/125 seconds ISO 100
out front – a rauchy couple, some coffee and a camera.
if your a dinky little bit of Spinifex (or me for that matter, damn dunes are hard to climb)
I love this scene, there was such a contrast between the never ending dunes and the encroaching grass and succulent plant thingys. The way the clouds streaked across the frame mirroring the shadows on the ground from the glow of the sun (which had just lifted above the clouds to the right) just screamed, 'photograph me'.. so i did just that 🙂
now, I will also have ya's all know, dunes are very deceptive beings, the climb to the top looks easy enough from a distance, but once on the slope the calves are burning and your taking 4 steps to only go 1 step forward!
With that said, grab ya self a bit of cardboard, oddly enough I found one nearby discarded from some knobs who had left their beer carton there and put your bum on it and its a fast way to the bottom.. bit like life really.. hard slog to the top and one very fast fall from the top 😉
Techie love:
4 shot panorama
Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with a Tokina (no sand in this baby anymore; nor any extra sand from this dune 11-16mm) f2.8 @11mm Aperture: f/11 ISO 100 and Shutter Speed: 1/10s
Out front: +HoyaFilters Circular Polariser and plenty of sand
watch where you step, its a minefield out there
Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with a Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @12mm Aperture: f/9.5 ISO 100 and Shutter Speed: 1/15s
out front – Lee Graduated Filter 0.9
When you feel like you're out there on your own, know there is someone watching over you, When out at sea, feels love can let go
Oh sailor, we will blow the wind right
Damn I wish I could write like that 🙂 anway, they are not my words, but the part thereof the lyrics to a 2013 song by Mr Little Jeans, how cool is that band name by the way! 🙂 the song name is "Oh Sailor"
Those words to seemed to fit the image and as such here I find myself.
View this baby in full resolution goodness and feel the wave of clouds as the city envelopes the last of the warm sunlight rays.
3 shot Panorama
Techie data:
D7000 with Nikkor 17-55mm f2.8 @ 24mm – Aperture: f/6.7 and Shutter Speed: 122.8 seconds
out front – LEE 0.9 Graduated Filter and Lee Fatstopper
As always, I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed.
stay wide? crop? remove left headland? remove right headland? way too many choices, hence picked a middle ground.. literally 🙂
3 frame panorama, each shot bracketed.
frames blended in by +Nik Collection by Google
D7000 coupled with Nikkor 105mm f2.5 @ 105mm Aperture: f/8 and Shutter Speed: 6seconds and 20 seconds
ISO: 100
As always, I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed.
the next train is leaving platform earth in …
Following on from the previous night Star Trail session (https://plus.google.com/100975265940134223422/posts/7dfL8PdWNbg), this time I opted for more data, like any engineer, more data is never a bad thing – this set of trails was over the space of 5 or so hours and included the moon rising in the early morning.
Its very interesting to see how the AutoWB deals with the scene as the light changes over the night, over the 5 hours there was about 4 really significant changes in the white balance, all which would have been easily sorted out if I had set a fixed WB. In the end it actually makes little or no difference to the actual trail set since alot of that data actually gets cancelled out.
Techie stuff
331 images stacked together using the statistics method in Adobe PS CC and yep it takes awhile
This time I shuffled the foreground shot to get things to line up and fullfill the iniital vision of the tracks leading right into the tip of the galaxy. This time I changed the shutter to a bit long 55 or so seconds, really this makes little difference but just meant things ended up pretty bright, I actually had to darken the sky considerably to get the trails to stand out the way I wanted.
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 11mm- Aperture: f/2.8 and Shutter Speed: 55.6 seconds (331 shots)
ISO: 3200
out front – long metal things commonly referred to as railway tracks.
Lovely jubbly and thanks for looking – 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.
Just a sneaky little long exposure while at Maroubra, this one was 3 exposures taken each at 238seconds and merged into a panorama, I really wanted the bigstopper filter to remove the ocean craziness and leave me with that beautiful rocky coast line, whic h it has to an extent and even the little old fisheramn was kind enough to hang 5 for a few minutes 🙂
This was a super low tide and barely any swell, the rocks you can see in the centre of the frame are usually being smashed by each wave set.
3 shot panorama
Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with Nikkor 17-55mm f2.8 @17mm Aperture: f/13 and Shutter Speed: 238.2s
out front – LEE graduated filter 0.9, LEE bigstopper and screw in circular polariser
view large to see the pain only those who do not live in the blues point tower have to suffer
I wonder if anyone asked…"so whats this highrise gonna look like? will it spoil the view of anything in the harbour?……………..like the operahouse or bridge?" 🙂
I will welcome the day that this piece of building (Blues Point Tower) is gutted and filled explosive ready to be brought back down to the earth, then I will come back here take a much much nicer picture 😉
That is unless someone who lives there offers me a spot for New Years Eve 2015 😉 then I might consider retracting my opinion. 😉
In the meantime, when I get a bit more time and my photochop sklills are a bit better, I am gonna clone that building out and see what the view would really look like.
It will also be very interesting to see the view in a few years when the Barangaroo site is complete.
This was the last of only a couple of sneaky shots i managed to fit in before dinner, I would have loved to get a few more images as the blue hour really developed, however reality and kids bath time takes priority 🙂
Pretty easy going image, 6 landscape orientation images stitched together, its one of the few times I have used the LEE 0.6 graduated filter, normally I opt for the stronger 0.9 filter.
6 shot Panorama
Techie data:
D7000 with Nikkor 17-55mm f2.8 @ 55mm – Aperture: f/9.5 and Shutter Speed: 15 seconds
out front – LEE 0.6 Graduated Filter
Out to the right – sunset 🙂
As always, I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed.
Probably the last of the images of the 'gerry tree' which I will post, however similarly to Rodneys version I did take a partial liking to the vertical composition and also the option for a milkway background to the wool spin. This image was taken from a recent trip with +Rodney Campbell and +Suren J to the Stockton Dunes, by the way chaps, it is quite possible to walk to the ship wreck too, keen? 😉
Two frames manually blended together, one for the milkway and one for the steel wool spinnage.
Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with a sand filled Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @11mm Aperture: f/6.7 ISO 100 and Shutter Speed: 169s (steel wool)
Aperture: f/2.8 ISO 3200 and Shutter Speed: 25s (milkyway)
out front – nada,
As always, I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed.
Light speed down the railroad 😉
I always wanted to try this technique, its pretty simple, just zoom the lens whilst the shutter is open – a couple of tips, which i will use next time (i learnt the hard way) to hopefully improve it.
– carefully zoom so not to move the camera/lens, otherwise you get non-straight zooming stars 🙂
– time the zoom sequence to fill up the shutter speed, also try starting slow and speeding up to create a ramp down effect.
– slightly defocus the lens to get more prominent zoomage
you basically need 3 shots for this , one with the zooming star trails, one for the foreground and one for the sky (under the zoomage), simply stack and mask out the zoomage where it kits the foreground, otherwise it looks like gamma rays.. you know the ones that past thru everything…or is that alpha rays? anyway, you get the idea.
3 shots
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 11mm
Shot 1 (foreground, twilight ) Aperture: f/9.5 and Shutter Speed: 1/3 seconds
ISO: 100
Shot 2 (background) Aperture: f/2.8 and Shutter Speed: 45.5 seconds
ISO: 3200
Shot 3 (zoomage) Aperture: f/2.8 and Shutter Speed: 45.5 seconds
ISO: 3200 with lens zooming
Lovely jubbly and thanks for looking – 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.
I have big plans for this hill at those trees, its only a matter of time 😉
D7000 coupled with Nikkor 105mm f2.5 @ 105mm Aperture: f/5.6 and Shutter Speed: 1/350 of a second
ISO: 100
A conveniently placed cloud at sunset on the dunes of Stockton beach made for which my daughter now refers to as the fairyfloss picture 😉
Single frame
D7000 with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 11mm- Aperture: f/13 and Shutter Speed: 1/3 seconds
out front – LEE graduated filter 0.9
As always, I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed.
It was certainly a bit of a struggle this morning, harsh dynamic range in the light and a significant lack of clouds, I can usually deal with this but the light did not even develop any nice pastels 🙁 anyway, enough whinging 🙂 the saving grace was the location!
Blended shot
Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @11mm Aperture: f/8 and Shutter Speed: various
out front – LEE graduated filter 0.9 and screw in circular polariser