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Forum: Post Your Photos!
02-17-2022, 02:46 AM
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First landscape photos since COVID arrived and I'm a bit rusty as it turns out; please ignore the noisy long-grass!
I was out driving the other night when I encountered some of richest and deepest sunset colours I've ever seen. The colour transitions were like something out of a movie, from Bruckheimer bronze through to deep pinks and violets as the sun set. The atmosphere was humid, clear and and very still. Hazy but not hazy, very eerie. I really wished I had my camera with me but these moments are fleeting unfortunately. The following evening seemed to be shaping up the same so I chanced a long drive to the same area to see if my luck was in...
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-17-2019, 03:06 AM
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One of those situations where you make the most with what you've got.
Never been to Bombo before, probably won't get the chance to return. Woke up early, drove 30 mins in the dark, walked through some scrub in the dark, set up the tripod and camera in the dark on a sloped rock next to the channel, stuck an ND filter on, manually focused and hoped the clear sky didn't blow out the image.
Well, the sky did blow out (even with stacked filters), the swell was flat and the sun was concealed by featureless cloud in an otherwise annoyingly clear sky. Not much went the way I'd hoped. A few days later going through the 40 or so captures, it turns out the first one was the best one.
Working in the dark in a difficult spot, being able to set up the User Defined dial functions the night before makes a world of difference, eh?
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Forum: General Talk
08-13-2016, 03:38 AM
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That's the most oblique description of fornication I've ever heard.:lol:
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
09-27-2015, 01:55 AM
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On the K-3ii it's Menu - C - 3 - 21.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
09-23-2019, 03:31 AM
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A couple of shots from yesterday taken at Parkes, NSW. It was only a quick handling display as it flew from Williamtown and back again in support of a small regional airshow. Started the routine at 500ft inbound from the East, performed a few high rate low level turns and ended with a vertical departure over the crowd to a roll out at ~20,000ft.
I was out of practice tracking fast moving targets and consequently my shooting was contemptible.
The RAAF Hornets only have two years left before they're decommissioned. They're all over 30 years old now and still put on an impressive performance.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-29-2019, 04:39 AM
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Forum: Photo Critique
02-18-2019, 02:50 AM
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Nice image. I'd crop the left and take a bit off the top and bottom to really bring out the skyline. The other thing I'd suggest is brightening the treeline and water to balance it out with the sky a little bit. I played around with it in LR per below. Being trees you can get away with a little bit more noise than on clean surfaces.
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Forum: Photo Critique
01-15-2019, 01:22 AM
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Nice. I downloaded and played around with it in LR and suggest getting a little bit more exposure on the rocks. I'm guessing you'd need to wait a few more minutes for the sun to go down some more to achieve this or a slightly darker ND.
I like the exposure on the white tips. They're not as silky as other seaside images but you've achieved a nice 'dusting' effect IMO.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
10-14-2018, 02:32 AM
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.An RAAF Hornet pulling a maximum rate turn.
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Forum: Visitors' Center
09-15-2018, 07:17 PM
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I can emphasize with his frustration. I had a recent experience with a large internet shopping platform that did my head in to the same extent. A complete circular loop of nonsense where apparently my city of birth has been wrong all my life.
I just hope he hasn't fired this off and then realized that annoying little light on the corner of his keyboard is called shift lock. (I may have done that once also...)
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Forum: Photographic Technique
08-22-2018, 02:12 AM
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I've always used 20x. Read it somewhere years ago and works pretty well.
(I use a metal chess board standing up with a steel ruler clamped to the side, so my target is a little bit bigger than most.)
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
07-22-2018, 03:39 AM
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Another hazy winter sunset with some help from a 3 stop ND grad filter.
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Forum: Photographic Technique
08-20-2018, 03:31 AM
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For the reasons outlined in previous post's I use manual focus when it really needs to count also. As an aside, I was recently asked to shoot a dance comp using someone else's DLSR; a Canon in similar thin DoF conditions. I was curious as to how it would go in AF and after ten minutes and all the reasons outlined in previous posts had to revert to manual focusing.
That said, my FA77 needed +8 on the AF calibration scale so check that out.. Your posted image reminds me of the pre-calibration AF on my own copy.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
08-12-2018, 03:14 AM
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A rare opportunity in this neck of the woods. Snow and a sunset. Normally clouds dominate until the snow melts.
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Forum: General Photography
08-05-2018, 02:53 AM
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For home display just adding light makes a huge difference. The preceding posts have some really good advice. Remember to use non-reflective glass in your display frame. It costs a little bit more but is a must when you have light being directed towards the print.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
08-02-2018, 04:43 AM
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69sec bulb exposure a few k's outside town.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
07-15-2018, 03:36 AM
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Another random bit of scrub, burnt out six months ago, now experiencing some winter re-growth. The sunsets over the last few days have been throwing a deep orange cast over the landscape. If it wasn't for the sub-zero temperatures, you coud be forgiven for thinking it was the middle of Summer here at the moment.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
07-15-2018, 02:14 PM
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Mt Canobolas near Orange. NSW.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
06-24-2018, 02:19 PM
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It's definitely not a heavy lens, so I wouldn't be too concerned about that. I've gotten a lot of use out of mine over the years and recommend it.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
06-24-2018, 02:51 AM
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Not exactly award winning stuff here, just an interesting scenic contrast.
Three views of the same bit of scrub with just under two weeks between the first and last shot. The snow was in the middle. Winter down here takes on many forms (and temperatures).
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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
05-11-2018, 05:31 AM
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This is good advice. The print would be large, so 'cost and a carton' isn't far off if I regard the last 1/3 as being unwarranted being a once off. For this print, for me it works out to be 2x material cost.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
12-04-2015, 09:19 PM
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These were taken in difficult conditions and 200mm was a bit shorter than ideal, but this lens still does a decent job. The subject was fast, the air a little bit hazy and the sun was behind the Hornet. I normally pre-set manual focus for aircraft, but I thought I'd give the K-3ii HSM II combination a test. There were a lot of keepers from the day. It really is a great lens.
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Forum: General Photography
08-12-2017, 12:56 AM
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In Australia, the law is currently generally concerned with the use of mages rather than the taking of images when it comes to non-commercial situations. A person taking images for private purposes in a public place generally has little to worry about unless the private use violates privacy or child protection laws. I've studied the laws in my State fairly carefully as I have kids who play sport and I occasionally take landscape photos for my own purposes. I don't post photos of people, nor of personal property as a consequence. I also always ask if I know an image of someone else's kids is going to be used in say, a school newsletter, or I crop them out.
In Australia, if you don't post, don't sell, and respect people's sense privacy you won't have any problems. Nevertheless, photographing someone in a car is asking for trouble in that you're likely to violate their sense of privacy without necessarily violating their right to privacy. They may not have a case to stop you but common decency needs to apply. The more people feel their sense of privacy is under threat the more likely it is that laws will be introduced to regulate the activity.
I've found the laws and the cases testing them are more complex than can be covered in a forum post. Being careful, considerate and applying common decency is the way to go.
If I was the OP, I wouldn't take the photo even though I would be legally able to do so.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
01-27-2017, 05:39 PM
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8 & 11 for 'Special Place.'
6 is the best of the set though, just can't see it fitting the brief.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
10-06-2014, 01:11 AM
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A good example of the AF speed of the Macro II version. Even when coupled with an old K20D this lens has no trouble at all tracking a dragonfly zipping backwards and forwards around my backyard. The operator is the limiting factor in this case.
1/4000, f4.0 at 200mm focal length. ISO1600, cropped to about 100%.
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