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After our sunrise shoot at Glebe I headed into the city to meet some other friends shooting some Australia Day festivities in The Rocks. I'd parked in World Square and then came up into the main courtyard between all the skyscrapers - it was still early and there were almost no people about. I'm not sure why I looked up but I'm thankful I did; up in the sky above there were these hundreds of smaller puffs of clouds with blue inbetween and the clouds were moving rapidly through the sky. It looked perfect for that urban architecture long exposure I'd been meaning to do here for some time.

I'd left some of my gear (including my tripod) in the car so I just manually prefocused the lens and a rough angle of view, fitted the screw in B+W 10 stop ND to the 16-35, and just sat the camera upside down on the pavement pointing up with the remote release attached and fired away - I got two attempts and just like that it clouded over with thick heavy foggy clouds and the moment was gone.

Here we have 30 seconds @ f/11 at ISO 100 and 20mm... converted to monochrome of course...



Be interested to hear what others think on this one...

This is great....definitely a POTW contender! I love the sharpness/lines of the buildings and how that contrasts with the fluid/organic cloud stream.

Wow! For the first time in my life I have had an inverse vertigo attack. So, all I can say about this photo is fantasmagorical.

And I think that this is a great lesson for everyone here: don't simply look in the typical places for images. Look up, down, all around.

I like it. The cloud effect is very well done.

I think I would prefer to see this image with a clean, clear sky.

aim54x wrote:This is great....definitely a POTW contender! I love the sharpness/lines of the buildings and how that contrasts with the fluid/organic cloud stream.

sirhc55 wrote:Wow! For the first time in my life I have had an inverse vertigo attack. So, all I can say about this photo is fantasmagorical.

zafra52 wrote:I like it. The cloud effect is very well done.

Thanks Guys

gstark wrote:And I think that this is a great lesson for everyone here: don't simply look in the typical places for images. Look up, down, all around.

Matt. K wrote:I think I would prefer to see this image with a clean, clear sky.

Oh noo Thats too easy - I'm actually walking through there most days so that would actually be very easy to achieve

What a great effect!