Quadtych.
Meaning. The word means ‘an image containing four pictures’ or ‘a series of four pictures that are bound together in some way’.
well, i think i achieved that part 🙂 best way to make 4 ordinary pictures look ok 😉
Quadtych.
Tag Archives: sunrise
Cold Little Bay.
Cold Little Bay.
Follow the sun.
Finally get a day to do sunrise and its freakin freezing.. and probably the most ordinary sunrise in the last week.
Sunrise over the Cape.
The previous BW image is given some context by this one – you can see the tiny speck of human here and the length of the coastline gives some more scale to what they were seeing looking back at me
Sunrise over the Cape.
(C) 2019 Gerard Blacklock, all rights reserved
Sunrise
Sunrise – (C) 2019 Gerard Blacklock, all rights reserved
Long Nose Point.
Long Nose Point.
Its been over 7 years since i last visited this spot, since then there has actually been some proper raised walking tracks and signage put in place. I did not work that out until walking back in the morning, on the way in I simply followed the same path i did last time, which at the time i thought, bugger they have really let this track go and geez the battle with the face eating spiders was a bit more intense then i recall. Low and behold there is a new portion of track put in place with a raised board walk which does not follow the old track
This was taken about 40 minutes before the sun was due to rise and it was very still and quiet (planes were stacked ready to roll into Sydney once the curfew lifted ). It all changed once the sun came up, wind picked up and clouded over, wind strong enough to turn the first few keen fishing boats around and make one think twice about how close to stand to the edge.
Cape Baily Lighthouse in the distance.
Long Nose Point.
(C) 2019 Gerard Blacklock, all rights reserved
Lone Tree
Sometimes sunrise is not overly spectacular and there are no colourful clouds, however on the flipside you often end up with really nice hues in the direction away from the rising sun.
Hole – Figure 8 Pool
Figure 8 Pool
Hole.
All this talk about compositing images and dropping skies in has done only two things for me 🙂
1) made me try it, and
2) convinced me it ain’t that hard 🙂
I guess its for some – but the wholesale dropping in of the sky – as I have done here, opens a new door to image creation but also another level of complexity of trying to create and capture images..
Anyway, for complete disclosure, which it what seems to be the key outcome of most discussions, this image is made from two completely separate images from completely different locations.
The processing was as simple as 4 layers in PS, a graduated mask and a duplicate mask to cleanup a few spots on the hill.
Peaks
I had a very enjoyable first visit to Crescent Head on the mid north coast of NSW, lots a really cool spots with very interesting rocks, even met a another crazy photographer nut out in the rain 🙂
Exif love:
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f20
Shutter Speed: 10s
Out front – Hoya CPL and Lee Graduated Filter 0.9X
Storm
I got very wet this day, in the space of a few minutes a front of rain crept up behind me and and dumped a load, then to add insult to injury the sun came out 🙁
It was very dark and the sun was trying it's hardest to pierce the clouds, it was meant to be a larger panorama, but the edges just sucked out some the juiciness from the headland and sunrise 🙂
Exif love:
4 landscape orientation shots stitched together
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f16
Shutter Speed: 4s
Out front – Hoya CPL and Lee Graduated Filter 0.9X
Verdant Greens
@ figure 8 pools
Lower and Madder version of Madden Falls
Welcome to the spray, where it is micro-fibre cloth vs nature 🙂
Exif love:
6 frames stitched together
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35m f4 @ 70mm Aperture: f16 and Shutter Speed: 1s
ISO 400
Out front – CPL only
We all bleed
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)
Figure 8 Pool
Fancy a dip ? I dunno whether I would like to be the first one to have a crack at it, knowing my luck there would be a blue ringed octopus or something in there 😉
On another note, this spot is/was made famous recently by some freak waves that wiped a few peopel out and consequently resulted in a couple of helicopter rescues.
Exif love:
3 images blended together
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35mm f4 @ 35mm Aperture: f18
Shutter Speed: 1/1.3 s sky and 6 s for the shadows and the some extra highlights
ISO 100
Out front – Hoya CPL and LEE Graduated filter 0.9x
Hidey Hole
watch where you step
It takes a special kinda dedication to get up at silly-oclock after 3 hours of sleep and drive 45 minutes and then walk another 45 minutes (in the dark to) a awesome spot knowing full well there would be no clouds 🙂 (shoulda done startrails). But i was pleasantly surprised, if you look carefully there is one cloud down there on the horizon wink emoticon Thanks mother nature 😉
I guess one positive was the nice pastels you get when there are no clouds, however you gotta look fast 'cause they disappear very quickly.
This is a 3 shot image, the extra frames were used ot bring out some more exposure in the rock pool.
Exif love:
3 images blended together
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35mm f4 @ 35mm Aperture: f16 and Shutter Speed: 13s sky and 30s for the shadows and the soem extra highlights
ISO 100
Out front – Hoya CPL and LEE Graduated filter 0.9x
Some Rock in the Ocean
with his little friend way out there
There is nothing quite like a lonely rock in the water and the sun trying to smash its way though.
It's always interesting to see the phases ones photography goes thru and how sometimes one gets stuck 😉 what I like about this image is that it manages to isolate the rock without a super long exposure and maintain that dreamy feel to the frame, the sun peaking though just topped it off. The shot is a bracketed shot since the foreground was quite dark, particularly the closest side of the rock, given the flat horizon it was a very easy blend to increase the dynamic range.
Exif love:
2 images blended together
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35mm f4 @ 35mm Aperture: f16 and Shutter Speed: 1/1.6s sky and 8s for teh shadows
ISO 100
Out front – Hoya CPL and LEE Graduated filter 0.9x