While you were in Ku-ring-gai....

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While you were in Ku-ring-gai....

Postby surenj on Sun Apr 11, 2010 12:25 am

I went to Port Stephens for the day. It looks like a photographers heaven and I was blessed with the midday sun... :mrgreen: I was lucky to catch the sunset before passing Stockton Bridge however.

For your critique as always. Thanks for looking.

Fingal Bay
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Salamander Bay
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Fern Bay [This is near newcastle]
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The last image is a bit of an anomaly... Can anyone guess how this has happened?
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Re: While you were in Ku-ring-gai....

Postby biggerry on Sun Apr 11, 2010 9:59 pm

Fingal Bay


interesting shot Suren, looks like a long exposure due to the clouds but it isn't! I am interested to know why you chose the BW option for this one - i can imagine a brillant blue sky here and am only teased by the BW version :wink:

The second image is a desat PP? I reckon that works well, crop to pano 'cause there ain't much the the foreground is doing that the middle ground is not already achieving :up:

The last image is a bit of an anomaly... Can anyone guess how this has happened?


Suren was drinking coke from one of the fancy coke bottles and stuck it in front of teh camera? I got no idea really... :lol:
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Re: While you were in Ku-ring-gai....

Postby surenj on Thu Apr 15, 2010 6:21 pm

Thanks for taking the time to comment Gerry.

biggerry wrote:looks like a long exposure due to the clouds but it isn't!

Are you sure that it's not a long exposure? :P It was 100 seconds. :mrgreen:

biggerry wrote:The second image is a desat PP? I reckon that works well, crop to pano 'cause there ain't much the the foreground is doing that the middle ground is not already achieving

It's not a desat actually... This is a color cast corrected version but I couldn't correct it completely. It's got too much green.... Care to guess how? :twisted: I will have a go at pano when I get home.

biggerry wrote: The last image is a bit of an anomaly... Can anyone guess how this has happened?
Suren was drinking coke from one of the fancy coke bottles and stuck it in front of teh camera? I got no idea really...

Um, not quite. I hand held a another dark filter infront of the 3 stop ND mounted on the lens. Since the exposure was long, I was wobbling the filter in front which may have caused a little camera shake. I don't know why it's rounded like that. I had to crop this significantly as the image was really small. Perhaps because it's because the rest of the image was quite dark and was not exposed at all?
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Re: While you were in Ku-ring-gai....

Postby biggerry on Thu Apr 15, 2010 9:31 pm

Are you sure that it's not a long exposure? It was 100 seconds.


hmm, problem between keyboard and operator here me thinks... :rotfl2:

i'm impressed, 'cause that is definitely not early morning :up:
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Re: While you were in Ku-ring-gai....

Postby surenj on Fri Apr 16, 2010 6:53 pm

biggerry wrote:hmm, problem between keyboard and operator here me thinks...

:mrgreen:


biggerry wrote:i'm impressed, 'cause that is definitely not early morning

It was around 1700 where there was quite a bit of light. I was using a 9 stop filter to slow things down a little... :wink:
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