Gap

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hello little sunrise, fancy seeing you here

There was a brief moment this morning when it actually felt like sunrise, for a few fast minutes the sun crept out from behind the clouds and said hello.. then disappeared … and then it rained… again.

I sat in this spot trying to get the right composition and avoid getting rained on for quite some time, finally I worked out that I needed to be in the water to get the right perspective, so I battled a river of seaweed and the shifting stands and all in all it was rather fortuitous since all that time stuffing around the sun finally came out.

Note, seaweed around a tripod leg can create some mad vibrations in the tripod when under some strong current 😉

Exif love:
3 shot panorama (landscape orientation)
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f14 and Shutter Speed: 10s
ISO 100

Swirl

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I did plan to hit this place for a completely different reason, there is a cool channel near here which during the December month lines up with the sunrise. I did get it last year, but was not overly happy with the result… its amazing that a whole year has gone past since then, damn it went fast! anyways, so I thought I would go back, however rather than capture it with a bunch of clouds and very little sunrise, I really want to get a nice sunrise with some cool colour, hence, it will have to wait.. probably until this time next year lol.

On the upside, whilst it was rainy and cloudy the tide was fairly low (and coming in) which meant this nearby rockshelf had quite nice conditions with the waves spilling over the shelf. The scale is a bit deceptive, its actually quite larger than it looks, if you look carefully you can see a crazy fisherman stick out there on the left where they hang onto whilst catching breakfast 😉

This particular image is a 3 shot panorama, 3 landscape orientation images at 21mm, it took a bit of time to get the same wave action in each frame such that when it stitched it did not end up with funny join lines. Its not perfect but still somewhat acceptable.

Exif love:
3 shot panorama
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 mm f4 @ 21mm Aperture: f18 and Shutter Speed: 1.6s
ISO 100
Out front – Hoya CPL and LEE GND (0.6x)

Pinlight of hope

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its a bit like that small amount of hope in the back of your head when sitting in the dentists chair that it 'aint gonna hurt… but it then gets squashed…;) damn I hate going to the dentist 😉

The sun made a brief appearance on this particular morning before succumbing to the thick blanket of clouds.

Exif love:
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f18 and Shutter Speed: 15s
ISO 100
Out front – Hoya CPL

Poled

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Botany Bay

I think I broke every rule here 🙂 central composition… disobeyed rule of thirds … man i am a rebel 😉

Its actually a 2 shot vertical panorama, I wanted that tall slim orientation (a bit like me 😉 ) with alittle beach, some nice turquoise water and the fog/rain clouds overhead…

Exif love:
D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70 mm f2.8 @ 24mm Aperture: f14 and Shutter Speed: 111.1s
ISO 100
Out front – no filters, the storm clouds were my graduated ND and the grey overcast pre sunrise dullness was my ND

The path that time forgot

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There is always a light side and a dark side to life, just like gaffa tape 🙂

These tessellated rocks are just near the ocean pool on the southern end of Whale Beach, its crazy how this stuff forms (geologically), it also reminds me of similar (albeit much larger) ones down near Coalcliff, nonetheless, they do make for interesting patterns and in this case, paths.
I had made it to this point in the morning without getting wet feet and whilst waiting for this 5 minute exposure to finish a sneaky wave came up from behind the rock I was leaning on and left me with a wet shoe, i mean c'mon it was the last shot of the day…. 🙁

Exif love:
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f13 and Shutter Speed: 329.7s
ISO 125
Out front – Lee Graduated Filter 0.6x, Lee Bigstopper ND filter and Hoya CPL

Whale of a time

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Whale Beach, NSW

Whale beach is tucked away up on the far far reaches of the northern beaches of Sydney, so far north I nearly needed a packed cut lunch 😉

I joined +Rodney Campbell , +Deb Mooney and Ron who had planned a morning session up here.

Exif love:
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f16 and Shutter Speed: 1.6s
ISO 100
Out front – Lee Graduated Filter 0.9x, Hoya CPL

Wheres Wally Fisherman

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Fishing at Snapper Point

I dunno whether the fishing is really any good here, but everytime I head out this way there is always a plethora of boats just off the coast trying their luck.

See if you can spot the rock fisherman, hes pretty small in the frame, and the only other dude (besides me) to be silly to be out at this early hour. 🙂

Exif love:

D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f14 and Shutter Speed: 30s

ISO 100

Out front – Lee Graduated Filter 0.6x and Hoya CPL

Chinaman's Beach

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The very most southern point of Chinamans beach and the limit of where you can go unless you have 'authorised access' to enter the bombing range 😉 I have always found these kind of signs quite humorous, since they will often state you must be authorised.. well it does not say I can't authorise my ass over the line :). This place did have a slightly expanded version of.. 'proof shall lie upon him'.. referring to the authorisation.. I did think that if it was a woman you would be sweet, it does not apply 😉

I am sure the lawyers would disagree with me tho…

It was a bland morning (the next was absolutely stella, yes I was in bed for that one!)

but the low tide flows were interesting and I did not mind the warm sunshine from the rising sun it did at the very least create some nice tone in the sky.

Exif love:
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f22 and Shutter Speed: 3s
ISO 100
Out front – Lee Graduated Filter 0.6x and Hoya CPL

Tentacles

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At first, they were separated
yet still close
but as each surge of the ocean cycled through
it drew them closer
until they were side by side
and united a force that could withstand
the oncoming ocean
a relentless force and a infinite force.
Until they finally succumbed
to the inevitable destiny
of the ocean
and were pulled in
love until the end

Exif love:
loving the vertical pano style at the moment 🙂
D750 coupled with 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f/16 and Shutter Speed: 2.5s
ISO 250
out front – Hoya CPL, Lee Graduated 0.6x Filter

https://blog.avernus.com.au/tentacles/

Fishing

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I am not quite sure who was more silly, me for standing in the waves taking a photo of the fisherman, or the dude standing in the waves fishing 🙂

I did like the way the surf created the line up the coast.

Exif love:
D750 coupled with 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f/16 and Shutter Speed: 2s
ISO 100
out front – Hoya CPL, Lee Graduated 0.6 Filter all covered with lots of spotty rain drops 🙁

Compete

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When you turn up sunrise and its nearly an hour before the big S breaches the horizon, things can be a tad on the dark side, however, it is this time, also known as nautical sunrise, where you can get some stunning deep colour. Capturing it is easy, its getting all the stuff around it to be bright enough to even show up….

One solution is to take along a torch, which if you have any sense you would have cause its damn dark and you would stumbling around in the dark without one 🙂 anyway you can take this torch and provide a little artifical illumination, its a bit of trial and error but the results can be OK… mostly I have found it pretty hit and miss, and in this case.. well things got a bit too cooked, hence the title compete the artificial rock takes over the image and just about drowns out the for sunrise 🙂

Another point to make about using your torch to light paint, and I bang on about this all the time, is to make sure you use it nice and low to the ground to get some texture, but also more importantly choose where you want the light to come from – don't do what I did in this case and be lazy and just stand next to camera and halfheartedly wave it around 🙂 pick a spot well off to the side and give it a nice flow. Apply more light further away from the camera and less closer to the camera since the closer bit will light up much quicker.. you know light fall off as you get away from the camera.

Anyway, there you have it.. compete.

single frame, LED torch illuminating the rock fence from the right hand side, the other reason for the lazy man option was it was dark and I could not see much and.. there was some big potholes there .. anyways..thats the excuse I am sticking too 🙂

Exif love:
D750 coupled with 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f/13 and Shutter Speed: 97.8s
ISO 100
out front – Hoya CPL, Lee Graduated 0.9 Filter

https://blog.avernus.com.au/compete/

Bilgola Bank Busters

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Bilgola Bank Busters - (c) Gerard Blacklock

D750 coupled with 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f/16 and Shutter Speed: 2s
ISO 100
out front – Hoya CPL, Lee Graduated 0.9 Filter

and not of the monetary kind 🙂

I really like the way the waves fanned out as the sun peaked over the horizon at 6:15am

Exif love:
D750 coupled with 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f/16 and Shutter Speed: 2s
ISO 100
out front – Hoya CPL, Lee Graduated 0.9 Filter

https://blog.avernus.com.au/bilgola-bank-busters/