Cool little jetty that I have driven past a few times on the way home from up the coast 🙂
D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70 f2.8 @ 24mm Aperture: f13 and Shutter Speed: 143s
ISO: 100
Out front: Lee bigstopper, Lee 0.9x graduated filter and Hoya Circular Polariser
looking for the first ride outta here
I hope ya'all had a great weekend, where ever you are on the planet 🙂
D750 coupled with Samyang 14mm f2.8 @ 14mm Aperture: f/3.2 and Shutter Speed: 48.3 seconds
107 files bumped and ground together
ISO 100
out front – intergalactic bus
That there is a lonely old rock with some cool rock weed and a neat water flow. I have really missed taking pictures of the ocean, you can turn even the most boring old rock into something nice with a bit of water and colour.
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 f/4@ 16mm Aperture: f16
Shutter Speed: 1.3s
ISO: 100
Out Front: Lee Graduated filter (0.9x) and Hoya Circular Polariser.
There has a been a whole bunch of discussion as of late regarding what is photography, specifically in regard to processing or photo manipulation – you just need to search AIPPA and the name of a famous australian landscape photographer to get the gist of whats going on.
Its been great to see these discussions and also get a insight into what people think, not to see what side people are on, if thats even possible since to have sides there must be a line, but more to understand what is the drive behind them when they generate images.
It has also been interesting from a introspective view trying to understand what I enjoy about photography and drives me to continue doing it, for me its the process of being out there and taking the image and also the interpretation of that image through the processing, from a long exposure, to panoramic to a… dare I say it.. tiny planet or whatever, whatever I can come up with 🙂 the final result, the finished image which gets dumped on social media, is but a mere 5% of the whole process and reason. That said its awesome for a having a timeline and collection of images since I could not organise or find any image on my hard drive beyond a few months 😉
so here we have a picture from Geiranger, Norway, its a wide angle panorama, using 4 frames to get the wide angle, each frame was bracketed to give 3 images, (one over exposed, one normally exposed and one under exposed) these were then automatically aligned and then manually blended (to preserve the bright areas and keep the dark areas) – is it reality? dunno, what if the mountains were tweaked to make them bigger ? everyone has a line when it comes to photography and art, simply because it might not be the same as your line does not make it right or wrong, just different – and just like opinions, this is just one 🙂
D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70 f2.8 @ 24mm Aperture: f8
Shutter Speed: 0.8s, 1/5s and 3s
ISO: 100
The conditions on this particular morning were quite interesting and photogenic, the sun really held out for ages and consequently i ended up with 14 million images from the morning… i did only edit a couple so I reckon this folder deserves alittle more love 🙂
I quite like this one – similar to a previous one, however just two shots stitched into a panorama, the second shot really only accounts for about 1/5th of the total image, however it is on the right hand side and gives the sun and its rays a bit of room to breathe.
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 f/4@ 16mm Aperture: f18
Shutter Speed: 1.6s
ISO: 100
Out Front: Lee Graduated filter (0.9x) and Hoya Circular Polariser.
When you say Glennfinnan Scotland, most will associate this place with the Monument and the Harry Potter bridge / viaduct – both items which I did not take a picture of 🙂 hence why I probably have a picture of the house instead. That and you had to pay to go and look at the monument up close, not that am opposed to paying, just that when you are only stopping for 5 minutes it does not make sense.
Anyways, a short walk up the hill to look out over the loch and gain a viewpoint of the Harry Potter viaduct and monument and I noticed this cool scene unfold as a cloud of rain came through, no surprise for Scotland 🙂 and I got wet ..
3 shot panorama (landscape orientation) – really should have gotten that shutter speed a bit high here
D750 coupled with Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8 @ 150mm Aperture: f4 Shutter Speed: 1/100s
ISO: 200
Out front: house and loch
So apparently, the thing at the end of the jetty is a place where you can go for a swim, kinda makes sense since the water seems like its knee deep for a long way out, not to mention the water is not that nice close to the shore – this particular scene reminds me of some scape conjured up by fantasy novel where you can punch on thru to the other side a rift or something, in any case it does fill me with some level of calm when looking at it 🙂
4 shot panorama, each shot in the landscape orientation
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f16 and Shutter Speed: 4s
ISO: 100
out front: Lee Graduated Filter (0.6x)
Sometimes, life is better on mute 🙂
5 shot panorama in a place dictated by simple forces of nature, water, wind and the sun.
Garie Beach, NSW
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 @ 16mm Aperture: f16 and Shutter Speed: 2
ISO: 100
Out Front: Lee Graduated filter (0.9x) and Hoya Circular Polariser.
at the extreme sports headquarters of Norway
The home to 'veko' (Ekstremsportveko – Extreme Sports Week), Voss, where crazy's get their craziness on and do crazy things like jumping off cliffs with dinky little parachutes and going over cliffs with water in little plastic buckets 😉
Not this little black duck tho, the most extreme thing I did whilst in Voss was stand on a slippery-ass rock and take a photo 😉
6 shot panorama just on dust with a nice glow in the sky.
D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70 mm f2.8 @ 50mm Aperture: f16 and Shutter Speed: 3s
ISO: 100
out front: Hoya Circular Polariser
I think image processing is a real two sided journey, whilst a necessity for anyone who takes images in raw format, makes panos, blending etc I feel the more I know the harder it has become! The more techniques I learn (which is actually not that many) the more it seems to take away from the actual image taking and the more time is spent perfecting the image. Looking at some of my recent files and I noticed a trend in files names typically ending with edit1-edit2-final-edit-final-final-edit 😉 ahhh I remember the days of shooting in jpeg on a sony PS and in hindsight they seem to be better images 🙂
Anyways, this image I have learnt a few new techniques, one of which is the Orton effect, i musta been under a rock not to know what that is – for those uneducated folk 😉 it was coined by a chap named Michael Orton back in the film days and was achieved by taking a couple of different frames each with different exposure and focus, one frame was actually way out of focus, this was then exposed with a sharp version to create a type of soft glow, known as the Orton effect. There are a few presets in common image manipulation programs which now replicate it, one that comes to mind is called glamour glow which does a similar thing, however I have tweaked this with the original technique in mind.
So here with have it, edit1-edit2-edit12-edit-final 😉
Its a blend of 3 frames with the orton effect used 🙂
Always great to visit Cape Banks, the little streak of clouds was pleasant and complimented nicely with the southern side of the headland with a portrait orientation shot. I have missed the aussie seascapes 🙂 but not the ball freezing weather.
This one is a 2 shot blended image, It could easily be done with a single image, however using two bracketed images means there is less noise and rubbish when pulling the detail out of the shadows, particularly in little pond which are in alot of shadow, it also means you can really bring the colour out as well.
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 @ 16mm Aperture: f18 and Shutter Speed: 4s and 8s
ISO: 100
I really like the dinky little waterfall off to the right – forging ahead on a path of its own, not content with being one to follow the rest 🙂
Thats enough wannabe inspirational/motivational quote text for a friday 🙂
3 shot panorama
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 @ 16mm Aperture: f16 and Shutter Speed: 5s
ISO: 100
out front: just another sweet Scottish Creek/waterfall
of the other kind – i thought i would not climb up there.. but i did eventually 🙂 pretty nice view and certainly a sheer drop off the edge 🙂
3 shot panorama
D750 coupled with Nikkor 70-200 mm f2.8 @ 200mm Aperture: f8 and Shutter Speed: 1/200s seconds
ISO: 100
out front: just another Scottish cliff 🙂
pretty typical Nordic scene 🙂
Exif love:
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f13 and Shutter Speed: 2s
ISO 100
Out front – Hoya CPL, Lee graduated filter 0.6x