Wineglass Bay – Tasmania

+Aravindhan Padmanabhan has been posting some nice shots from his recent trip to the worlds best subcontinent and reminded me a few images I took when I was there.

This was back in the day when i started out in the hobby of photography (2009), I had only recently purchased a tripod and a pro quality lens (nikkor 17-55 f2.8) both of which i still have and use regularly 🙂

This was a b-sides shot from Wineglass bay, the place i had the best beer in the world (moo-brew)

It caught my attention because of the tiny figure in the foreground, dwarfed by the Hazzards…

Thanks to +Aravindhan Padmanabhan for making me take another look at my images from that era.

The Opaque World

Its like a mesmerizing blurry mirror that you can't tear your eyes away from, each second the shape, colour and contrast change as the light refracts through the ebbing water.

The light was fading very fast and the colour disappearing just as quick, i could see the campfire ablaze in the distance and a clinking of beer bottles was calling. Rather than wait the 2 minutes at f/16 for the bright exposure i took 3 frames at different apertures all at 30 seconds as a means to expedite my parched throat to the waiting beer. Said goodbye to the shy crabs and took another single frame before trekking back to the pinpoint of light that was our campsite.

Similarly to the last image, I processed it in Nik HDR efex pro2 using pretty much the same custom preset, now dubbed 'gerry's dark one' then finished off in my usual process.

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Deceptive little puddles

This image is a rare example where I have used Nik HDR efex pro 2 to automatically blend the image, in recent months/year i have been much more inclined to manually blend exposures in photoshop to obtain the required dynamic range i have found this gives complete control over process and i can dictate exactly how i want the dynamic range to look rather than relying on a program algorithm or preset to decide.

That said, i have become partial to the Nik HDR efex pro 2 plugin for PS since it often (not always) generates a fairly decent image which i can then edit as desired in my normal processing software/method. I find the 'balanced' or 'neutral' preset seems to give me the best latitude to do as I wish and it is more time efficient than manually blending 🙂

This image was 3 automatically bracket images varying from 1/2 second to 8 second shutter speed. f/16 @12mm focal length
Circular Polariser, and LEE Graduated 0.9 filter

I was waiting for a nice wave to flow right up the channel but ran out of time and patience.

See these dinky little rock pools with the glassy reflections? these are guaranteed shoe soakers…the ones with the all sandy bottoms are the worst, looks like dry sand to the casual glance until 'splash' i had two wet shoes for the next day of camping thanks to one of these 🙂

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Oil Tanker Island

I love seascapes and I think the main reason is the unpredictability of what you are going to come home with. I sometimes get the opportunity to revisit a location and I always try and plan at least a couple of shots in my head, however more often than not i come away with totally different shots due to a lot of different factors.

On this day, i planned to be on that island out there..yeah..that long thin one you can see in the distance…so how did I end up over here taking this shot? I had a few sweet ideas in my head for long exposures off that really sweet rocky oil tanker shaped rock island but nature did not come to the party, sunset was at around 8 ish and low tide was at 5 pm, this little island is only accessible during low tide for a couple of hours, now i am always pretty keen but wading waist deep on a sand bar well past dusk did not sound like a good idea, plus i needed to be back at the campsite for a beer (i rarely get to have a few beers nowadays so thats a major driving factor 😉 )

Anyway, so i was stuck landside and this is one of the shots that eventuated, not quite the one I had in mind 🙂

Aperture: f/16
Shutter Speed: 4s
Exposure Mode: Manual
ISO Sensitivity: ISO 100

Circular Polariser, and LEE Graduated 0.9 filter

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Termeil Point

One of the best camp spots on the South Coast of NSW, Australia, it takes a bit to get in there and its pretty popular during school holidays, but for very good reason.

Mist/spray on the filters – probably one of the hardest, if not impossible defects to correct in post processing. There is alot to be said for just taking the 5 minutes in the field to take the filter off and clean it, in alot of scenarios it does not really matter, ie low dynamic range larger apertures etc, however at small apertures pointing into the sun or scenes with high dynamic range it can pretty well ruin a image

This image I pretty well gave up to the seascape gods but thought i might just process it and see what happens. It was after all just a frame which i turned around and shot while walking to another spot, the sun set was looking pretty nice in that corner of the sky and there was some nice foreground albeit it busy.

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Misty Dragons Teeth

Apparently, according to the 4yro Chaos, who was meant to be in bed asleep but insisted on looking at some photos 'cause it helped her sleep' (when have I heard that?) this looks like a buried dragon or dinosaur jaw and teeth. Very topical since she has a paleontologist excavator kit (basically a bit of fake clay with plastic bones inside which you have to scrape, dust and saw to reveal)

anyway, some cool repetitive patterns in the rocks here.

River of Snakes

Welcome to 2014 – sometimes the last shot of the day is the best, i trawled up and down this stretch of rocky outcrop looking for a nice channel just like this, however it was not until i was heading out of there that I came across this gorge and a very cool cave, but thats for a revisit.

Scale

View large – what i really like about this place was the diversity of the rocks, from the smooth polished rocks in the foreground to the angry and very sharp serrated black rocks in the ocean. Whilst not quite achieving the composition I had in my head, i still liked the lack of scale that the image portrays and also clash of the rock types melded together by the long exposure water.
note the access pole running between the two big rocks in the centre..a bit of balance beam anyone? 😉

Dunbogan and the cranky clouds

Don't let the name turn you off – prime realestate and some cliffs (behind the shot) that are to die for.

What I find really amazing about doing seascape sessions is the variations in the rock, in the space of only 25 kms the rock on the headlands can change from basalt (well i think its basalt, its black and smooth and fing slippery) to this kind of conglomerate rock.

Probably a geologists dream 😉 Anyway some cranky clouds.

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The Witch Widjirriejuggi and the fate of the 3 brothers of the Birpai tribe

North Brother, the European name (by Captain Cook) for the hill in the distance and the place where one of the Dreamtime legend Birpai tribe brothers rests.

Like the Napoleon advertisement, its a crime not to prime view large 🙂

It was a bit wild and woolley out this evening – look carefully and you can see the lightning in two places on the right of the image – don't ask how i stitched a image and got two lighting bolts 😉 its a long story 😉 6 landscape orientation images stitched.

Sometimes its worthwhile braving the elements for a shot and this was one such time, although i and others have questioned my sanity here considering the hill (north brother) in the distance did get fried by lightning 🙂 and I was considering heading up there for sunset 🙂

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Ship wrecker

I can only imagine the pain one would be in if one was to come anywhere near this place in a boat at night even in the mildest of conditions…

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