8 shot Panorama with the #kasefilters magnetic CPL and ND
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Peak Experience
Well, this was a peak experience
(Pun-hit wonders)
Here we go
2018 in full swing.. every year I take a few shots from this location (Kirribilli, NSW), i never get bored of this view, its not very creative (like those puddle reflection images you see from here all the time 🙂 ) but I still love it.
Sydney Sunset
… from Mrs Macquarie’s Chair
There is some really beautiful detail in this image, you can see the projections onto the Opera House sails (LHS), the Harbour bridge climbers, the lights of North sydney.
It can be quite tricky to capture sunset scenes when shooting directly into the sunset or light source, the large dynamic range in the light means you need ot bracket your images, even when the light does become more subtle and soft as when this shot was taken.
This image is a panorama of 3 frames, with each frame bracketed, you can see the result in this by looking at the shadow detail on the opera house and the full rich orange of the sunset underneath the bridge. There are quite a few ways to do images like this, in this case I have automatically blended the individual pano frames in Lightroom resulting in 3 DNG format files, these are then sent to Photoshop to be stitched together, there is then a bit of wrangling to ensure the perspective is correct and just some usual adjustments to accentuate the scene.
The endless fuzzy
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)
Muted
Sometimes, life is better on mute 🙂
5 shot panorama in a place dictated by simple forces of nature, water, wind and the sun.
Bjärred
Jetty fantastico
Our last night staying in southern Sweden we decided to head out and try and capture another swedish sunset. I can't be passing up a good jetty now and these did not disappoint, the beach, or what the Swedes call a beach was .. lets say interesting. Bjärred is only a 20 minute drive from where we were and with the ingenious idea of the swedes to actual make smart traffic lights (ie ones that sense your coming and turn green) we were there in no time. Plenty of jetties and cool boats which make cool photographic subjects and easy ones too.
After leaving the beach on the way back to the car we did spot a Hedgehog, pretty neat little creatures, with very little fear, we chased him into the bush to grab a few photos 🙂 another animal checked off the list.
3 shot panorama, each shot in the landscape orientation
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f18 and Shutter Speed: 2s
ISO: 100
out front: jLee Graduated Filter (0.6x)
Swedish Turbine
So, in Sweden they have a mix of energy production with the majority being hydro, kind helps when you have all that water handy 🙂 they also have a few nuclear plants one of which is pretty large, the other source, which i think is about 5% of their power, is wind turbine, in southern Sweden around Lund where we stayed the countryside was completely dotted with these turbines. I would have to recommend that certain Australian politicians (and ex pollies) not to visit here since they are so significantly offended by the sight of wind farms 😉
I quite liked the sight, these tall slow turning towers to me simply represent a low impact renewable energy source, it was really cool that all you could see is a tower and a slow turning prop, all the electrical cables are buried under ground. The noise is well.. almost non existent.
I do like my lone trees in a paddock or on a beach, so it was cool to spot this lone tower on a late night drive on the first night in Sweden. The sun had just gone down (11pm ish) and the pascals had come out.
3 shot panorama
D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70 mm f2.8 @ 50mm Aperture: f7.1 and Shutter Speed: 1/2.5s
ISO: 250
out front: Lee 0.6 Graduated Filter
Ben Nevis Waterfall
After camping overnight at this spot myself and my best photographic buddy for the holiday, aka chaos, walked the 20 seconds from our campsite to this little stream, which by the way was an excellent watersource, never tasted such pure fresh water in all my life.
We both clambered over the rocks and made our various compositions and I was particularly proud with chaos for chasing down those different views, I can't wait to see her images from the trip 🙂
6 shot panorama, each shot in the landscape orientation
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f16 and Shutter Speed: 5s
ISO: 100
out front: pure mountain water stream
Trollstigen
So, the Norwegians love a good tunnel, but.. it appears from time to time they like a good windy road, maybe its the joy of watching people cycle up these or something to keep the motorcycle population happy, in anycase, this one (Trollstigen) is certainly a cracker, even in our little stationwagon punching on up this road it was pretty hair raising, especially when a bus came the other way!
The viewing platform up the top is neat, but I think I need a bigger camera, i could not fit all those norwegian hills in 😉 even at 16mm and 9 portrait frames stitched together I could not get all of the big waterfall in 🙂
The bottom of the where the windy bit starts is about 300m above SL, this spot here is 700m above SL, not a bad hill climb.
It would be awesome to do a night time shoot here and get the car trails in the frame, however for me with the sun not really setting until 12 midnight there was no hope, I'll let that go to the keeper for the next visit 😉
6 shot panorama, each shot in the portrait orientation
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f10 and Shutter Speed: 1/80s
ISO: 200
out front: just a few hills and a windy road with buses, summer skiers, mountain bike riders, campervans and motorbikes 😉
Park Couple
careful, that kinda snuggling leads to other things 🙂
you really have to view this large, you just cannot appreciate the expansive vista from just a thumbnail, plus, you need to zoom into really see what this couple are up to 😉
5 landscape images stitched together to give the panorama, noting that nothing else was cloned out, all pure timing to get only those two in the shot 🙂
Taking on a slightly different processing and feel for this one i really wanted to let the texture and shape of teh sky talk rather than bold colours.
D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70 mm f2.8 @ 70mm Aperture: f5 and Shutter Speed: 1/160s
ISO 100
Out front – nada
Moreton Bay
The impossible light
Sometimes I see a shot and think that would be awesome, but achieving it from a technical stand point can be a bit of barrier, i suppose more correctly its probably a effort barrier now more than technical, i think this image sums that comment up nicely.
Its a 3 frame wide panorama and as you can probably imagine with the sun on one side and detail trees in the middle its a pretty high dynamic range scene, one that the human eyes sees and goes, 'wow sweet' 🙂 well mine do any way 🙂 but the poor old camera (even with its whizz bang technology) goes 'arrghh too much light and shadow whatcha doing to me? ' 🙂
So to help out the poor camera and in all honesty I did not really expect this shot to work out (to a level worth pursuing), I bracketed each shot, this left me with a 9 shot picture (3 frames bracketed (-3ev, 0, +3ev). I stitched up the panorama with the brackets as separate layers and then manually masked the bright and dark areas to increase the dynamic range, by this stage i was thinking the amount of effort is not quite proportional to the outcome, especially when comparing to the long exposure shot I took a few minutes afterwards (see here: https://plus.google.com/+GerardBlacklock/posts/dUNKtPoh1Ay) the actually effort at the scene and also at the computer was significantly less for the linked image 🙂
anyway, it did all work to a level that at the very least deserved to be posted here on gplus 🙂
Exif love:
3 shot panorama (each frame bracketed)
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 mm f4 @ 24mm Aperture: f18 and Shutter Speed: 18s (over exp) 5s (normal exp) 1s (under exp)
ISO 100
Out front – LEE GND (0.6x)
Into the Unknown
Into the unknown – (c) Gerard Blacklock
11 vertical frames taken on a pano head
D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8 @ 24mm Aperture: f13 and Shutter Speed: 13s
ISO 100
Out front – Hoya CPL and one tunnel
a bit like each day for me:)
Well truth be told it’s not really that unknown.. its a dark, damp and wet tunnel, great place for the glow worms…
Its a popular spot and this particular view is pretty cliche, however I have tried and smash my own take on it by making a panorama from a silly amount of vertical frames so I got that sense of enclosure from the heavy carved out rocks on each side, couple this with the accentuation of the soft warm light spilling over the edge in the afternoon sun and I think I am happy with it… for now 🙂
I took the same approach as I did with the tunnel on the other side of the road, which you can see here : https://plus.google.com/+GerardBlacklock/posts/BBPm5LgJjjU
Another view of this tunnel from further back can be seen here, this gives a bit more perspective on the area.
https://plus.google.com/+GerardBlacklock/posts/9jXWanonyXT
ya gotta view it large, its about 8,000px wide, which has been reduced from the original of over 19,000 px wide
Exif love:
11 vertical frames taken on a pano head
D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8 @ 24mm Aperture: f13 and Shutter Speed: 13s
ISO 100
Out front – Hoya CPL and one tunnel
Home Time
Home Time – (c) Gerard Blacklock
D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8 @ 24mm Aperture: f13 and Shutter Speed: 2.5s
ISO 100
Out front – LEE graduated 0.9x filter and CPL
Exif love:
D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8 @ 24mm Aperture: f13 and Shutter Speed: 2.5s
ISO 100
Out front – LEE graduated 0.9x filter and CPL
Sunday Park Sessions
Sydney park Sessions – (c) Gerard Blacklock
4 frames stitched together and a few strays cloned out 😉
D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8 @ 70mm Aperture: f5 and Shutter Speed: 1/160s
ISO 400
Out front – CPL only
Sometimes.. and only sometimes do things in life (with kids) line up nicely, this was one such time and it has nothing to do with the people in the image 🙂
I noted earlier on in the arvo, whilst chained to my domestic duties, that the clouds were pretty cool, as luck would have it, Chaos and tickles were both pretty zonked from a big day at the zoo yesterday so it was off to bed during the daylight hours for them 🙂 and at 6:30pm.. yes you read that right! i was cruising to the park with both girls in bed asleep (some credit to the better half there too i suppose ; ) ) which meant I got there just in time for some very cool clouds and sunset 🙂
Exif love:
4 frames stitched together and a few strays cloned out 😉
D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8 @ 70mm Aperture: f5 and Shutter Speed: 1/160s
ISO 400
Out front – CPL only