It's been such a looooong time since i've been on here, pretty sad actually. Thank goodness the storm season has arrived, albeit everywhere else than here in Canberra! Been looking at all your reports from up here, good to see you guys in Vic have kicked things off already.
Here are some images from some shoots over the past few months, just a few of my fav.... i hope to get out a bit more now that daylight savings is in play.
First one is shot from Sept up in Cairns where all my family reside in these days. Taken from Green Island, it's the first good sunrise that i'se seen up there in 8 years!!!! Usually i go up during xmas, so the whole eastern horizon is usually grey muck with the wet season.... even the storms up there are crappy imbedded things.
The colour in this shot only lasted for about 5mins, so i had to work quick. 17mm tilt shift as always, used a hard horizon grad filter, 3 stops to get this shot in one exposure. Aperture of f16. Pretty much straight off the camera, just some contrast adjustment on the foreground driftwood.
For total contrast, this one is from my local mountains, the Brindabellas. I'm totally spoilt having good snow cover within 45mins from my house, which growing up in Adelaide was nigh impossible, so it's still a novelty that will never probably rub off. I'd been looking for a good looking snow gum, and the hunt still continues actually, but this one is the best i've seen for a while. It holds bit of a special memory for me, my old man saw and played with snow for the very first time.... priceless.
Shot with 17mm, f16, iso 100.
This next one is a little dramatic. I was out looking for storm spotting location - something i do in the lead up to a storm season. Near to Canberra is Lake George, which is more like a massive natural drain for the area...... there's hardly ever water in it, just mud under a thin layer of crust. You don't want to drive you car on it.... that's for sure!!!!!
It be awesome of watching the whole life cycle of storms passing by, will def be doing time-lapse in this location. In the distance is the Bungendore wind farm.
Show with 17mm, f16, iso 100, hard grad filter fro expose in one go.... which also made the clouds look really dramatic:)
I've got a few more, but gotta run for now.... be back soon:) Have fun happy snappers!!!!!!!