I am rewarding myself for all my hard studying and working by having a few days at Uluru in early August. The thing is, I keep gettin…
I am rewarding myself for all my hard studying and working by having a few days at Uluru in early August. The thing is, I keep getting conflicting advice from people such as… / 1) The rock looks stunning all the time in all sorts of light / 2) The rock only lights up and looks fantastic for about 10 minutes at sunrise and sunset / 3) Don’t take you best camera because it is doomed due to all the dust and grit in the air / 4) Take your best camera because you will regret it if you don’t / 5) Do a tour to find the best spots (photographically speaking) / 6) Take yourself to the rock to find the best spots (photographically speaking) / 7) Find a local to show you the best spots (photographically speaking) So who can lend me some realistic advice on how to structure my time there to best suit my photographic endevours?
Hi and welcome to my bubble. / I’m mainly an oil painter but some recent photography from The Great Ocean Road I thought worth showing. Ho…
Hi and welcome to my bubble. / I’m mainly an oil painter but some recent photography from The Great Ocean Road I thought worth showing. Hopefully will upload more paintings, drawings and prints soon but until then you can view my work on my.space.com/carlaosinski / happy bubbling….love this site and all the creative, inspiring work on it!
WOW, I never expected that this morning, but I sold my first card of “Lone Wolf”...That totally awesome!!! Anyway, great thank the the b…
WOW, I never expected that this morning, but I sold my first card of “Lone Wolf”...That totally awesome!!! Anyway, great thank the the bubbler who purchased it, and thanks also to all of you for your great support through the last months!!! Thanks again!!! You made my day!!! Frank
Just a fast Thanks to everyone for the comments that they give me. I spose in some sense I am still struggling as I really want to sell m…
Just a fast Thanks to everyone for the comments that they give me. I spose in some sense I am still struggling as I really want to sell more, but it’s the way it goes. I am really busy at the moment, so sorry if I haven’t been around much to comment, I am in the middle of moving. So it has been quite hectic lately. I just wanted to say thank you to everyone and for the support! Now while I have a minute I am running to photograph the sunrise, we’ll see how it goes :) / —-John
Finally managed to sort out shooting a coastal sunrise this Sunday morning. We’re heading for a little place in called Hunstanton whic…
Finally managed to sort out shooting a coastal sunrise this Sunday morning. We’re heading for a little place in called Hunstanton which is on the North-Norfolk coast in East Anglia, UK. Have got my ND Grads and a spanking new manfrotto tripod and watch this space for the results next week! does the happy dance
Right on I just notice that “Foxy” made the front page just now in the “popular section 1day”. Thanks all for commenting my work and a…
Right on I just notice that “Foxy” made the front page just now in the “popular section 1day”. Thanks all for commenting my work and adding it to your favs!!! You guys just made my day!!! Thanks again!!
A big… BIG Thankyou to Darren for featuring my “SS-Dicky Sunrise” image in the “Australian…
A big… BIG Thankyou to Darren for featuring my “SS-Dicky Sunrise” image in the Australian Travel Photography & Writing Group / I am deeply honoured to be sharing spaces with many talented artists/photographers!! /
I typed all this out for Ben, who asked for some help, since he doesn’t live near any beach, and didn’t want to waste his time when he fi…
I typed all this out for Ben, who asked for some help, since he doesn’t live near any beach, and didn’t want to waste his time when he finally made the long trek. Thought others might appreciate the info. I use my Canon 5D with Lee ND grads, mostly the darkest ones, for sunrise. I’ve never tried to shoot the ocean much after an hour or so after sunrise, and not been all that successful, unless it’s a cloudy day. You’ll need a tripod and cable release. The tripod just needs to be stable, and the cable release working. Then I set my camera on AV and start shooting with aperture at around f/8 or so while it’s dark, and closing it down as the light gets stronger, with ISO mostly 50….. There’s no formula I use, other than using AEB, to see if I can snag one that gets the sky right, then I look for the one with the right wave patterns. Sometimes I combine the two, sometimes I run them through photomatix. Sometimes they’re perfect. I use my 16-35mm nearly ALL the time when shooting seascapes, very rarely I’ve used the 70-200, and that’s only if there’s a detail that’s worth getting, like the shipwreck or some waterfalls over rocks from the surf…. Here the light is generally best till around 20mins after the sun goes down, or 30 mins before the sun comes up. If you have clouds, wait longer after sunset….you’ll probably get better colours. If you have clouds in the morning, you might be able to shoot longer after the sun comes up too, especially if the light breaks through…. The IR filter can come in handy once the light is stronger….here in Qld we have strong light for 12 hours a day or more, even in winter….IR is a blessing! I’ve never used a yellow filter….and wide angle with polarisers just don’t give good results, imho. Just keep checking your screen and moving around for different viewpoints. Everything will depend on how much water movement you prefer. This is a case of personal taste, and with practise you will work that out. Setting your camera on AV and using AEB will give you the three different exposures to see which works best, then you just adjust your aperture to slow it down, or speed it up….or add more filters…the darker it is, the longer the exposure…. Be careful of getting too close to the waves, and watch out for slippery rocks, they can be extremely dangerous! Here the tide surges more dangerously an hour before high tide. Make sure of tide times before you go, and be certain you have a way to escape from the beach if the tide is coming up….Rogue waves can, and do cause problems….try to go with someone who has local knowledge…. Wash your tripod off when you leave the beach, and again when you get home. Other than that, have fun!
I can’t talk about these filters in any sort of technical way, but I can explain what I bought, and how good they are at allowing you to …
I can’t talk about these filters in any sort of technical way, but I can explain what I bought, and how good they are at allowing you to shoot dawn and sunset without losing all your sky detail. I started off with a set of Cokin P filters. The filters sit in a plastic holder, that attaches to the front of your lens by way of an adaptor ring. The ring needs to fit the front element of your main landscape lens. When I used the Canon 20D the Cokin P was fine, with no vignetting, but once I bought the full frame Canon 5D, my lens had to be closed down to 24mm wide. This was unacceptable to me, since I like wide landscapes. Looking into various other filters meant spending quite a bit more money, however, all the reviews showed Lee filters to be ideal. There are a couple of companies here in Oz that sell them, and after wasting time ordering and paying in advance to an overseas company, only to find that they were out of stock, with no idea of a delivery date, I asked for a refund and contacted Mediavision in Sydney. Geoff was very helpful, and gave me a quote for a foundation kit, wide angle adaptor ring, a set of 3 neutral density soft graduated filters, and a full 0.6 ND filter. Postage was only slightly extra, and I had them in my hot little hands within the week. Geoff also sent a Lee catalogue. / Mediavision Australia / Sydney Office:- 4 Monash Road,Gladesville NSW 2111 / Phone:(02) 9816 4055 Fax: (02) 9816 1661 / Melbourne Office :- 22 Yertchuk Avenue,Ashwood Victoria 3147 / Phone:- (03) 9807 5133 Fax:- (03) 9807 7814 When I go to the beach, I take a bag with just filters and holder. They all have their soft cloth or soft vinyl bags, and it’s easier to slip them in and out of there without having to take off my backpack. Before dawn I’ll generally just have the adaptor ring and holder on the lens, with no filter. As the sun gets closer to jumping up from under the horizon, the filters are brought into play. Usually I’ll add the 0.6 first, if there’s not much cloud around, and once the sun has risen, the 0.9 will be added on top. The soft graduation means that you can slide the filter up and down, even slightly below the horizon, and it doesn’t leave a solid line. I haven’t been in a situation where I think I’d need the hard grad, to be honest. The holder turns easily if you wish to switch to portrait mode, just remember to turn it back when you go back to landscape mode! Because I live in Queensland where the sun is especially bright, all year round, it’s important to have these filters to make the most of a good sky. It’s near impossible to capture sky detail AND foreground detail without them. I don’t shoot in the daytime if I can get away with it, usually we pack up and leave the beach within 30mins after sunrise. I believe that you can still make good use of the ND grads all through the day, but I don’t have any real experience of that. Even shooting waterfalls can be easier when using ND filters, because it cuts out some of the light that might otherwise over-expose your image if you’re trying for silky water. The only problems we’ve all had is when the sea mist is particularly bad. In that instance we are constantly looking for ways to clean the filters, and still haven’t come up with a satisfactory solution. If anyone can help, we’d be much obliged! I hope this helps, as I said, not techy, but may be helpful for anyone looking to know what to buy….. cheers This has also been added to the tips and advice forum of All Seascapes Group forum
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click on feature button to see group — Musings written for the Australian Travel and Photography Group’s LifeStyle’s Best Shot! Challenge / Note: click images to view larger versions — Reflections on my first ‘Photographic’ Road Trip In the pre-cheap airfare days the road trip was the ubiquitous way to travel to visit family and friends for holidays. Remember the days when you would drive for hours and stop at pre-determined servos to relieve the bladder and grab a greasy meat pie? when you’d pop ‘No Doze’ like hard boiled lollies? or make an impromptu stop to see the Dog on the Tuckerbox or the Big Banana? I feel nostalgic for these days and sometimes I feel almost unAustralian when I fly. So, when we received news that because of my husband’s job, we would need to leave our new home, Melbourne, and return to the far-flung, tropical city, Darwin I saw my opportunity. We hadn’t had a holiday for a while, so I planted the seeds about how this was the perfect chance to travel the Great Ocean Road, as we’d always planned, and to do the ‘canon ball’ run through the centre. After my pestering … no, nagging (let’s call a spade, a spade) ... he agreed to clock thousands of kilometres on the Ford Falcon for the trip. We packed our suitcases in preparation for the full spectrum of Australia’s weather: from freezing on the Victorian coast, thanks to the Antarctic winds in December (yes, in summer) through to thongs and shorts once we were passed Adelaide, and the week before Christmas 2008, we set off. Oh, and I had a new digital SLR camera – my first digital SLR – that I wanted to break-in by capturing some of Australia’s greatest landscapes. So, my first practice at taking a landscape picture was in Apollo Bay at dawn on Boxing Day. I warned my husband I’d get up to take the shot and so duly set out, with scarf on, to experiment with my new camera. After an hour or so, and with the beach pedestrian and dog traffic increasing, I went back to bed for a few hours. My beloved was not happy with me when I showed him my results – – because I had gone out, in the dark, in a ‘foreign’ town, on my own! The next dawn expedition was at the Twelve Apostles. I’d tried to get a sunset shot the day before but had been thwarted by clouds on the horizon, so I was determined to go back the next day. This time, my husband roused himself early, on his holiday, to make sure I was accompanied. My tentative steps into the landscape genre produced – . So, we continued driving west, stopping at port towns, trying our hand at carnivals setup to entertain kids (surely they were designed for old kids?), where my husband, after much teasing, eventually played a carnival game and won me a toy. Then we spent new year’s in Adelaide with some of my family and set off north, through the ‘red centre’. One place my beloved was very keen to stop at was Cooper Pedy; to stay in an underground hotel room of course! After an overnight stay, we departed shortly after dawn and I managed to snap, from inside the car – because I was fed up with swatting the kazillion flies that inhabit the outback – one of the signs that are strewn along the Stuart Highway as you approach the town. The sign is to warn wayward tourists who might wonder about wandering among the moonscape i.e. the piles of sand that are a by-product of opal mining – . Then, we arrived at the one place I’ve always dreamed of going – Uluru. You can learn about the geological story as to why Uluru is there, but, to see the flat plain with this rock suddenly jutting out (excusing Kata-Tjuta to the west) is truly astounding. The local Aboriginal people have their creation stories to explain its existence, but while I was gazing on the magnificent red monolith I felt an ancient, spiritual rhythm that perhaps no human story could truly capture to explain the mystery of nature. Meanwhile, as a dutiful hobby photographer, I (and my husband) joined the crowds in the sunset viewing area to watch the changing colours of Uluru. We overheard a tour leader, with dread locks and a clear Australian accent, remark to one of his groupies – Oh, I see you have a Ny-kon. I shrugged and continued to take a shot every thirty seconds on my Nick-on, and captured this – . After stopping in Alice Springs and following the OTL (overland telegraph line) to the Devils Marbles, Tennant Creek and Nitmiluk (Katherine) Gorge, we arrived in Darwin. I had about 300 images to sort through and my secret plan to have the opportunity to photograph some of Australia’s stunning landscape helped revive our thirst for the road trip. We are busy planning the next trip: hopefully to Broome, through the Kimberley, on our quest to see areas of Australia that few Australians ever get to see with the naked – or rather camera lens – eye. -
Hey all / I’m getting together the calendars now so head over and have a look / also this year I’m offering to put together custom selectio…
Hey all / I’m getting together the calendars now so head over and have a look / also this year I’m offering to put together custom selections of photos / so feel free to peruse my gallery pick out 12 images, Bubblemail me with your selection and I’ll put them together http://www.redbubble.com/people/richardkeech/calendars / One of my calendars / / And heres another /
Sunrise on Sumner Beach, Christchurch About 15 min…
Sunrise on Sumner Beach, Christchurch About 15 minutes drive from Cathedral Square takes you to an awesome part of Christchurch; Sumner. Sumner has its own unique culture and it is a very laid back suburb, popular with surfers. Early one morning, I got up before sunrise, filled a mug full of coffee and headed down to the beach to wait for the sun to come up. Many people mistake this image for a sunset but it’s actually the sun coming up from the East coast of NZ. I sat here on a New Year’s morning a few years ago to be one of the first to see the new year’s sun. It’s quite humbling to think that the next “thing” out that way and to the South is Antarctica.
31-10-09 Bewdy! Jasper’s Sunrise #1 / !h…
31-10-09 Bewdy! Jasper’s Sunrise #1 / / has been FEATURED in the Nirvana Group. My sunniest thanks to the Hosts and to all who have appreciated and supported this misty dawn photograph. GB / Dennis
Here is a selection of my favourite work in my folio, and would all make great Christmas gifts, and look great hanging on any wall! A…
Here is a selection of my favourite work in my folio, and would all make great Christmas gifts, and look great hanging on any wall! All my work is available in different styles and formats available through redbubble, and here is a preview: Farm Windmill Mosman Bay Boatshed At Dusk Jetty At Dusk Water Under The Bridge Cygnets Mobile Home Crawley Edge Boatshed Swan River Jetty At Sunset Thunderstorm At Dusk Bathed In Light Bathed In Gold Moody Morning Crepuscular Rays Sunshine After the Storm Reflections Kwinana Grain Jetty At Dusk Crawley Edge Boatshed Panorama Pink Cherry Blossom Flowers Standing out in a crowd Lake Clifton Thrombolites Lake Clifton Thrombolites Lily flower Mammatus clouds Honey Bee Lancelin Sand Dune Dusk At The Dunes Lancelin Sand Dune Three Of A Kind Path Of Shadows Sand dune / / Decoy At Sunrise Peaking through the window Kalbarri Beach / / Kalbarri Beach / / Kalbarri Beach Pinnacles / / Boat on the beach DNA Tower at Sunset Perth City Dusk Kings Park Lights Kings Park Lights Peak Hour Traffic Noble Falls Panorama Collie Dam Bird on a branch / / Black Swans Farm Trees At Sunset Chinese Meal Chinese Noodles Chinese Noodles Having trouble choosing a single artwork? Maybe My 2010 Calendar Is what your looking for! “
Being a student, I usually hate getting up before there has even been a slight crack of light penetrating my closed, couldn’t be more shu…
Being a student, I usually hate getting up before there has even been a slight crack of light penetrating my closed, couldn’t be more shut, curtains. But the more I get into photography – the more I regret not getting up all the times previously. Inspired by the work of Eric Wyllie (who takes the most fantastic pictures of the Knapps Loch in Kilmacolm, Scotland) I got my act together and got up before sunrise. My first visit to the Knapps was a large disappointment. The clouds were low and dark – I got a shot out of it anyway, but it almost put me off going back! I had a look at the met office website one night and the forecast for the next morning was music to my ears: “mist”. I woke up about 6am, drove the 10minutes to the Knapps and I was gob smacked. A lovely purple hue on the horizon, 10ft high rising mist, and the whole Loch to myself. It can’t be put into words. I was then joined by about 4 other photographers – one of whom I got talking to (that’s another thing I love about photography…the people I meet are always nice and great to have a chat with. You don’t get that in the middle of a city – unless it’s a drunken/drugged up tool from Glasgow who wants 20p for “eh bus hame”. Either way). 3hours and 12GB(!!!) later I headed home…but only because I was going to be late for work! I probably spent about 2hours processing some of the images (and it probably took 2hours to upload them all!) and I actually wished I had taken more. But I got enough out of it. Picked up a good few things for next time. One of them being to bring a pair of gloves – but what’s a little frostbite when this image was the result of it: / 2 words: Worth it.
Many thanks to Collage and Landscape photography for the feature of m…
Many thanks to Collage and Landscape photography for the feature of my photo “Kurilpa Bridge”. I really appreciate your faith in my work and it’s great to be honoured in this way, especially when all the other featured photos in your group are of such a very high standard. Thank you. / Cheers, / Graham
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