Minnehaha Falls

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the hidden joint

What I love about photography is the way you can arrange the composition, the elements and to an certain extent the light to suit what you want to portray, conversely you can use these to not show something. I had a few hours to burn so I plugged into google 'waterfalls and blue mountains' closed my eyes and clicked , the result was Minnehaha falls (after Leura Cascades but i choose not to go there 'cause its a bit busy)

What a cool name, apparently it comes from a Native American female name which is translated as 'waterfall' would be interesting to know why the falls are called this, probably some dude just thought it sounded cool hence the name 😉

Back to the image and the stuff about showing and not showing stuff.. I rocked up here late i the day, probably later than one should given its a 30 minute walk in and it was close to sunset, however shortly thereafter a couple turned up and sat on the edge of the pool. I thought it a little strange being so late in the day, however they came prepared with a couple of beers and a joint so all good i suppose 😉 anyway I really did not want anyone in my shot so I composed them behind the big rock on the left 🙂 and my scene was once again people free 🙂 mission accomplished.

For the record they were very polite and took their stuff out with them, so they get a big tick in my book 🙂

Exif love:
a bucketload (11) of portrait orientation shots stitched together in PS this is about a 180degree view.
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f13
Shutter Speed: 30s
ISO 200 (things were getting a bit dark down the bottom)
Out front – Hoya CPL.

Missing Falls

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So I had this mad composition in my head which would be taken from this little knoll off to one side of the Empress Falls, I had walked down here a few times over the years so I kind knew where I wanted to be (or so I thought!). After walking down the path i spied the spot I thought would be perfect, a small amount of bushbashing (gently as always to minimise my impact) and i was there, on my knoll… now i was there the view turned out to be rubbish, could not see Empress falls and i was balancing on some slippery moss cover rock which felt like it wanted to catapult me done the valley.

Not to be deterred and after spending a painful amount of time to get to this spot i was determined to take a shot from here, so i turned around and looked the other way, which was into a nice little glen with what looks like a set of falls which only runs during some heavy rain.

In the end the shot worked out ok and I did not end up sliding down into the Valley of the Waters 🙂

9 images (portrait mode) stitched together
D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8 @ 24mm Aperture: f11 and Shutter Speed: 30 seconds
ISO 100
Out front – Hoya CPL.

Smooth Botany Bay

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Somebody went and whacked a bunch of nets on my lovely isolated, minimal poles 🙁 oh well, on the bright side, you can now swim here without the fear of being chomped by a narky sharky.

Exif love:
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 mm f4 @ 20mm Aperture: f13 and Shutter Speed: 272.4 seconds
ISO 100
Out front – LEE GND (0.6x) and Lee Bigstopper and Hoya CPL.

On the Edge

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of two worlds

I am going thru a bit of a pano phase at the moment, I really like the challenge of being able to slice a piece of scenery to show something different and to be able to capture additional elements that just can't be achieved in a single 6×4 frame.

As a true testament to the ease of pano taking, i shot a whole bunch of images (just about all panos) from this area and I reckon I was happy with just about every frame – thats pretty rare for me btw 😉

So the next time you out punching some light with that digital fang-dangle thing they call a camera or smart phone, consider the pano option and watch the world just open up to you 🙂

Happy freakin' hump day too.

View large or go home 😉

The image is made from 5 horizontal landscape images stitched together in PS, the kicker here is that simply by adjusting the exposure on each frame I could capture that sweet dark area under the foliage and also the relatively bright falls, having a cloudy day certainly helped too.

D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8 @ 32mm Aperture: f18 and Shutter Speed: varied from 5s to 30 seconds
ISO 100
Out front – Hoya CPL.

Hudgee Nudgee

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Sometimes in life ya just get a result out, even if your not happy that its perfect

Thats gonna be my motto for the next day or so 😉 sometimes better to get a result out in a reasonable time frame then nothing at all…

I have a couple of shots from this morning similar to this one with various compositions etc, but have sat on them for quite a while, not quite happy with them, the sunrise is nice, but the composition is just not what I had in my head – hence whilst it is not what I necessarily wanted, better to get a result than none at all.

Exif love:
2 frames blended in PS
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f18 and Shutter Speed: 8s (over exp) 4s (normal exp)
ISO 100
Out front – LEE GND (0.6x) and Hoya CPL

Toothless Nipper

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Nipper Chaos - (C) Gerard Blacklock

chaosnippers

Well done Chaos, thats a season of Nippers done, whilst I have enjoyed the routine egg and bacon roll and coffee as you tear up and down the beach and in and out of the water, I think only one of has gotten fit 😉

A big hat tip to the great crew of instructors (Bluefit), dealing with these little nippers is a bit like herding cats on speed 😉

Seacliff

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Seacliff - (c) Gerard Blacklock

D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70 mm f2.8 @ 45mm Aperture: f8 and Shutter Speed: 194.4s
ISO 100
Out front – LEE GND (0.3x)

up top

#‎seacliff‬ ‪#‎coalcliff‬

D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70 mm f2.8 @ 45mm Aperture: f8 and Shutter Speed: 194.4s
ISO 100
Out front – LEE GND (0.3x)

Fallen

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tgif tomorrow 🙂

I love the way the logs have just fallen here, with alittle mad scrambling and contortionist moves i was able to get this view, the view is almost 180 degree view, i had to clone out my foot at the bottom 🙂

Exif love:
4 wide angle portrait orientation images stitched together to make a mammoth vertical pano, then cropped back a bit 😉
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f16 and Shutter Speed: 13s
ISO 100
Out front – CPL only, some logs and a few falls