I had to really beat this one over the head to get it to stitch properly, its 5 shots with quite a lot of overlap, but no matter i did the road lines would just not line up in the stitch, so I had to resort to some clone sorcery to bring them back together 🙂
Exif love:
5 landscape orientation images stitched in +Adobe Photoshop
D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8 @ 24mm Aperture: f13 and Shutter Speed: 1/160s
ISO 100
Out front – a long ass road 🙂
so clouds.. you guys hang around here much?
A different take on a new favourite tree of mine, it did start off as quite a large vertical panorama, however crop at the very bottom of the frame just did not quite sit well with me. Hence rather than a horizon at the middle it ended up as a classic 1/3rd composition…
ya gotta view it large too 🙂
Exif love:
a whole bunch of vertical frames stitched together…
D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8 @ 50mm Aperture: f11 and Shutter Speed: 1/180s
ISO 100
Out front – CPL only and a lonely tree.
sometimes, if you just wait long enough, all the noise just disappears into a sea of stillness.
on another equally depressing note, I just finished watching that 4 Corners report on hunting in South Africa, irrespective of whether you agree with it, think that its a good way to fund the increase in rhinos populations or whatever, i just cannot get it around my head the fact that people get enjoyment out of shooting an animal. Whether its a canned hunt, a ex-petting cub, or even just the cow you gonna eat, i just cannot see how one would get enjoyment out of killing an animal.
Exif love:
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f14and Shutter Speed: 245.9 seconds
ISO 100
Out front – LEE GND (0.6x) and the LEE fat stopper
me: "hey chaos?"
chaos: "yeah what"
me: "there is a dog driving a car"
chaos: "what?"
me: "a dog driving a car, look out your window"
chaos: " oh my gosh its a dog driving a car, can a dog really drive a car?"
me:" sure looks like it"
tickles: "doggy cant drive car, doggy cant drive car, doggy cant drive car…… doggy driving car!.."
as if kids concept of reality needed any more altering 😉 chaos and tickles had their minds blown 🙂 for the rest of the trip tickles was like " doggy cant drive car?" in a very confused voice 🙂
Bento box, climb to the top, scope out the lay of the land and then use those hills for the real reason they were put there……
….home and straight to sleep
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
Chaos vs Tree – (c) Gerard Blacklock
Chaos 1.. tree 0.
I do like how the dress is like a camo and blends in with the tree, mum not so happy about climbing in trees with such a nice dress 😉
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
Punching onto the Blue Yonder – (c) Gerard Blacklock
not quite
I certainly hope his weather radar view looked better than it looked from down here 🙂
I Have Arrived – (c) Gerard Blacklock
D750 coupled with Samyang 14mm f2.8 @ 14mm
Each trail image is 40.2s
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO 800
out front – sculptures by the sea art with a bit of EL wire and coloured torch
112 34 images, loaded into PS via statistics (maximum), cleaned up the plane trails and few annoying clouds then blended via the lighten mode.
Foreground shot is a separate image, from the same spot with some light painting.
Cheers to Rodney for reminding about this session – i only processed one picture from it last year 🙂
Exif / shot love:
D750 coupled with Samyang 14mm f2.8 @ 14mm
Each trail image is 40.2s
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO 800
out front – sculptures by the sea art with a bit of EL wire and coloured torch
King Coal – (c) Gerard Blacklock
D750 coupled with Samyang 14mm f2.8 @ 14mm Aperture: f/5.6 and Shutter Speed: 355.8 seconds
ISO 100
out front – sculptures by the sea art with a bit of EL wire and coloured torch
Sculptures by the Sea at Bondi/Tamarama 2015
King Coal, coal, resin, fibreglass and steel, 172 x 101 x 119 cm
An arrogant, larger than life figure representing Australia’s reliance on coal
“I wanted to anthropomorphise coal. The figure needed to exude arrogance, an unwillingness to change and seem unaware of his impending doom.”
I reckon the evening clouds streaking across the sky compliment this sculpture and the artists vision, one of many unprocessed images from last year 🙂
Exif / shot love:
D750 coupled with Samyang 14mm f2.8 @ 14mm Aperture: f/5.6 and Shutter Speed: 355.8 seconds
ISO 100
out front – sculptures by the sea art with a bit of EL wire and coloured torch
We all Bleed – (C) Gerard Blacklock
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f16 and Shutter Speed: 30 seconds
ISO 100
Out front – LEE GND (0.9x)
I saw on some news/photography website yesterday that the famous ‘Philosophers Tree’ had been cut down by the farmer who owned the land where the tree was. If you have never seen a image of this tree, be sure to do a quick google and check it out, it is a wonderful subject, or at least it was.
Sadly, the reason for chopping it down, was ( it appears) partly due to the fact that so many photographers trespassed on his land..
Pretty sad state of affairs, but if that is the case, i cannot blame him, just shows you can love a tree to death I suppose.
So, in memory of the Philosophers Tree, here is my tribute, a shot taken when I was searching for those lone mangrove trees (https://plus.google.com/+GerardBlacklock/posts/QcPubRyxLiS).
it was also between getting rained on, eaten by mozzies and contemplating just getting the car and grabbing a coffee instead.. i would have, but the coffee shop was not open yet 🙁
Exif love 😉
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f16 and Shutter Speed: 30 seconds
ISO 100
Out front – LEE GND (0.9x)
Don’t Stare at the light – (C) Gerard Blacklock
Don’t Stare at the light
Somersby Panorama – (c) Gerard Blacklock
12 vertical frames
D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8 @ 36mm Aperture: f18 and Shutter Speed: 4s
exposure comp -0.3EV
ISO 100
Wow, i just updated to the latest version of Adobe Lightroom, yeah i know I am a bit behind the times 🙂 I gotta say tho, someone really turned the wick up on the slider options, previously you could smash the slider to 100 and it would not have a huge effect, now its like they have dialed it up another 100 percent 😉
Anyway enough of that boring stuff and onto the image 🙂 I have had this one sitting around for a few weeks and finally got around to stitching it, I quite like the composition and I am really liking the challenge of approaching scenes with the idea to include some big foreground objects, like the big rock on the right. In this case the rock on the right is actually the one I am sitting on to capture the panorama, its pretty close to a 180 degrees field of view and normally without using a pano head and rail it would be quite difficult get a undistorted easy stitch, this is where I find the pano equipment is really useful.
This particular part of Somersby falls is very popular and it is easy to get to, i always find it a nice rewarding spot with plenty of options for new and different perspectives, if your passing by on the M1 motorway, be sure to swing off the fast lane and have a look.
#somersbyfalls #somersby
Exif love:
12 vertical frames
D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8 @ 36mm Aperture: f18 and Shutter Speed: 4s
exposure comp -0.3EV
ISO 100
Out front – Hoya CPL
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f18 and Shutter Speed: 1s
ISO 100
Out front – Hoya CPL and LEE GND (0.9x) and natural reverse grad 🙂
For those who are not in the know about filters for cameras – oh yes we use those to distort reality too 😉 A reverse graduated filter is simply a filter which darkens the sky and then also has a even darker band that can be aligned with the horizon to really reduce the exposure on the sun (the brightest part of the scene) during those sunrise and sunset time, those leave one with a nicely exposed frame.
Now, i don’t have one of these since they are pretty specialised and really can only be used in a few cases anyway – you can also replicate the filter with a couple of normal graduated filters…
anyway there is a point to all that, there are some mornings when the cloud and sun gods shine upon you (hahaha did see what I did there 😉 ) and you get a scene like this where the band of cloud along the horizon provides you with a natural part of the reverse graduated filter 🙂
nicely played clouds and sun 🙂 its a bit of boring composition but I could not really find anything else nearby to jazz it up and by the time I would have climbed down the rocks the light could have been all gone 🙂
Exif love 😉
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f18 and Shutter Speed: 1s
ISO 100
Out front – Hoya CPL and LEE GND (0.9x) and natural reverse grad 🙂