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My eldest daughter and I took an evening trip down to Balls Head Reserve on Sydney Harbour for an hour of photographing the sunset and twilight over the harbour and city.

Situated on the northern foreshore of Sydney Harbour, this popular picnic spot combines natural beauty with spectacular views. It is located at the southern end of Balls Head Drive, Waverton.

From this location we have magnificent views over the city and harbour and the setting sun to the right. Unfortunately the view towards the Harbour Bridge is spoilt by Blues Point Tower directly in the middle of the bridge!

As always I'd appreciate any feedback, comments, suggestions or critique...

7:56PM and the sun is about to set in the next ten to fifteen minutes, we had a nice cloudy sky which lent some nice colour to the sky.


NIKON D90 + 8.0-16.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 8 mm, 1/10 sec at f / 16, ISO 200


NIKON D90 + 8.0-16.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 11.5 mm, 1/6 sec at f / 16, ISO 200

8:11PM and the sun has just set - it was actually my daughters idea to take a more closeup view of the horizon where the sun had just dipped over.


NIKON D90 + 18.0-200.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 135 mm, 1/15 sec at f / 16, ISO 200

8:43PM and the end of twilight but there's still quite a bit of deep blue/purple colour in the sky on this long exposure.


NIKON D90 + 18.0-200.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 40 mm, 30 sec at f / 16, ISO 200

Lovely images with my pick of the show being the second one. It looks a good place to shoot images from.

#2 is the pick here Rodney. The color gradations are nice.

I think these may need to be displayed large to have lots of impact though.

Killakoala wrote:Lovely images with my pick of the show being the second one. It looks a good place to shoot images from.

Thanks - it is - I think next time though if I get there earlier I'll go down to the waters edge and do some close to the rocks just on the water.

surenj wrote:#2 is the pick here Rodney. The color gradations are nice. I think these may need to be displayed large to have lots of impact though.

Yep - the pano crops do look very tiny

Since the favourite looks to be #2 - here is another even wider one I took like #2 - do you like this one more or less than #2?


NIKON D90 + 8.0-16.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 8 mm, 1/4 sec at f / 16, ISO 200

also you can check out for a slightly larger versions:

http://www.rc.au.net/photos/20110108_060_1-1024.jpg

http://www.rc.au.net/photos/20110108_063_4_5-1024.jpg

I like #'s 2,3,and 4 from the first set.
The colours in the 2nd are very nice as Surenj said.
I like the way you have treated the third pic. I also like the colour here.
I always have liked night shots of the city. Still need to try that out.

I like the first version of the latest post as it does not look as though you missed half of the bridge. I know you did not "miss it" as you stated but it looks that way as a picture. Just my 2c

Ain't it a beautiful city! And the light ever changing.

colin_12 wrote:I like the first version of the latest post as it does not look as though you missed half of the bridge. I know you did not "miss it" as you stated but it looks that way as a picture.

I recropped that last to exclude the half bridge