Sunrise over River Clyde

Sunrise over River Clyde, originally uploaded by greenplasticdave.

Taken down at the shore, Wemyss Bay, Scotland.

Pseudo HDR from one RAW file. Processed in DPHDR. 0.9 Grad used for some movement in the water. The waves here were caused by the passing ferry enroute to the Isle of Bute. I waited on it passing three times to get a nice wave in the right place :)

Shot on a Canon EOS 40D and Sigma 10-20mm lens.

Kelburn Waterfall Pool

Kelburn Waterfall Pool, originally uploaded by greenplasticdave.

Christmas Eve at Kelburn Country Park, Scotland. Everything was closed but I was still able to get to this nice spot, icicles and all :)

HDR [-2,0,+2] Shot on a Canon EOS 40D and Sigma 10-20mm lens.

River Clyde

River Clyde, originally uploaded by greenplasticdave.

We're on tour in Scotland right now and this shot was taken in the village of Wemyss Bay in Inverclyde. I had to get really low down and ended up sitting on the rocks as the waves rushed up near my feet.

Pseudo HDR from one RAW file. Taken on a Canon EOS 40D and Sigma 10-20mm lens.

Christchurch Cathedral, Oxford University

Christchurch Cathedral, Oxford University, originally uploaded by greenplasticdave.

A 360 pano taken in Christchurch Cathedral at Oxfrod University.

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Big ol' cloud

Big ol' cloud, originally uploaded by greenplasticdave.

This monster cloud/storm rolled in over Caloundra on Sunday while I was at a family bbq. I nipped out to Dicky Beach to see what opportunities there were.

HDR [-2,0,+2] panorama stitched with PTGui. HDR in DPHDR.

Taken on a Canon EOS 40D and Sigma 10-20mm.

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Beachmere swamp

Beachmere swamp, originally uploaded by greenplasticdave.

Does it classify as a swamp? I dunno it smelled pretty rank anyway. Taken during the recent S.E. Qld meetup at Beachmere.

HDR pano from three exposures [-2,0,+2] stitched in PTGui. HDR was done in DPHDR.

Taken on a Canon EOS 40D and Sigma 10-20mm.

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Buachaille Etive Mor, Highlands of Scotland.

Buachaille Etive Mor, Highlands of Scotland., originally uploaded by greenplasticdave.

Two shot HDR using Photomatix. This is a re-edit of a much older shot taken when I was using an Olympus C7070-WZ. I decided to revisit it to apply some of the things I've learned recently. Curves layer set to 'soft-light' applied in Photoshop. USM.

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Sunrise down by the pond

Sunrise down by the pond, originally uploaded by greenplasticdave.

Sunday morning's sunrise down at the pond

HDR [-2,0,+2] panorama shot with a Canon EOS 40D and Sigma 10-20mm.

Stitched in PTGui, HDR with DPHDR.

St. John's Cathedral 360 pano

St. John's Cathedral 360 pano, originally uploaded by greenplasticdave.

St. John's Cathedral 360 pano

I'll be visiting the UK in a few weeks and plan to visit many old Cathedrals while I'm there and give them the 360 treatment.

I've been tweaking my panosaurus this week for use with the Sigma 10-20mm and I think I got spot on now.

St John's is one of my favourite buildings in Brisbane. I can test the pano head at home but these surroundings are much nicer :)

HDR [-2,0,+2] in DPHDR and stitched in PTGui.

Taken on a Canon EOS 40D and Sigma 10-20mm.

Gold Coast star trails

Gold Coast star trails, originally uploaded by greenplasticdave.

Taken from the balcony of my hotel room at the Royal Pines Resort.

147 shots stacked in Photoshop. Each image was a 30 second exposure, f/8 ISO-200.

This was my wife's idea and I'm glad she mentioned it. I had thought very few stars at all would be visible over Surfer's Paradise but the results suggest otherwise :)

Taken on a Canon EOS 40D with a 17-85mm EFs lens.

Nudgee Beach Sunrise

Nudgee Beach Sunrise, originally uploaded by greenplasticdave.

Three shot HDR pano taken at Nudgee Beach. A particularly lovely sunrise and straight after this I had to go to work.

Taken with a Canon EOS 40D and 17-85mm EFS lens.

HDR in Photomatix, stitching in PTGui.

Editing in Photoshop involved cropping and layering in some of my single exposure layers to get rid of some annoying HDR artifacts. Finally added a curves layer set to 'multiply' at about 40% and applied some sharpening.

Sunset behind the cemetery

Sunset behind the cemetery, originally uploaded by greenplasticdave.

I took a trip out to my new spot two days ago and discovered that it actually sits at the end of a cemetery.

The location I shot from previously gave me limited spots to shoot from but knowing how to get in to the cemetery it was really easy to drive round the other side where one can easily walk round the whole pond.

HDR [-2,0,+2] pano stitched in PTGui. HDR with DPHDR.

Shot on a Canon EOS 40D and Sigma 10-20mm.

Sunset behind the cemetery

Sunset behind the cemetery, originally uploaded by greenplasticdave.

I took a trip out to my new spot two days ago and discovered that it actually sits at the end of a cemetery.

The location I shot from previously gave me limited spots to shoot from but knowing how to get in to the cemetery it was really easy to drive round the other side where one can easily walk round the whole pond.

HDR [-2,0,+2] pano stitched in PTGui. HDR with DPHDR.

Shot on a Canon EOS 40D and Sigma 10-20mm.

Wellington Point

Wellington Point, originally uploaded by greenplasticdave.

Pre dawn glow at Wellington Point last weekend.

Taken on a Canon EOS 40D using a Sigma 10-20mm lens.

HDR from three exposures [-2,0,+2] combined in DPHDR. slight curves layer added in PS.

Wellington Point

Wellington Point, originally uploaded by greenplasticdave.

Taken at the same shoot as my last post. Still can't resist a good pano :)

HDR [-2,0,+2] 4 shots stitched in PTGui, DPHDR for the HDR work.

Taken on a Canon EOS 40D and a Sigma 10-20mm lens.

That fella there is gtierney, a fellow Scotsman I met that morning.

Wellington Point

Wellington Point, originally uploaded by greenplasticdave.

I took my first visit to Wellington Point on Saturday for a sunrise shoot. I was quite pleased with the display :)

Taken on a Canon EOS 40D using a Sigma 10-20mm lens.

HDR from three exposures [-2,0,+2] combined in DPHDR. Curves soft light-layer added in Photoshop.

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Playing with smoke

Playing with smoke, originally uploaded by greenplasticdave.

I got a Cactus V4 flash trigger today so had a play around with some smoke trails.

Taken with a Canon EOS 40D, 17-85mm EFS lens.

One 430EXII to camera right at 1/16 power triggered with a Cactus V4.

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Sigma 10-20mm

Sigma 10-20mm, originally uploaded by greenplasticdave.

I just joined the Sigma 10-20mm club :) The lens arrived on Monday but I didn't get to play with it till yesterday.

This is my current 'emergency sunset spot' it's only 10 minutes from the house so I can get to it if favourable conditions present themselves at the last minute :)

Canon EOS 40D and Sigma 10-20mm.

HDR from three exposures [-2,0,+2] using DPHDR.

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Rashoodz Photoshoot

Here's a short slideshow of the new range of Rashoodz (www.rashoodz.com.au) soon to be available. Shot on location at Kings Beach, Caloundra



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Infrared tree

Infrared tree, originally uploaded by greenplasticdave.

Taken on a Canon EOS 40D and 50mm lens using a Hoya R72 filter.

This was taken at the Royal Pines Resort golf course. 6 shots stitched together in PTGui.

The golf course was peppered with signs telling people to keep off the course unless golfing. No mention of photographers though. As if I could seriously pass up a good photo-op though. I mean come on!

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Mt. Nebo Sunset

Mt. Nebo Sunset, originally uploaded by greenplasticdave.

I saw some interesting clouds forming on Saturday afternoon and it turned out to be a little storm rolling in. I nipped up to Mt. Nebo and was able to get some shots at Westridge lookout during a break in the rain. You can see the clouds in the distance here emptying onto the hills.

Three shot HDR [-2,0,+2] panorama. Stitched in PTGui. HDR with DPHDR.

Taken on a Canon EOS 40D with a 17-85mm EFS lens.

A close up pano taken at the 66mm can be seen here

Currumbin rocks sunrise

Currumbin rocks sunrise, originally uploaded by greenplasticdave.

This was my first visit to Currumbin and I left feeling quite pleased with the shots I'd got. I was even happier after finally getting time to process them and see how they looked.

I tried a mixture of HDR and grads individually then eventually a combination of both. I really wanted to get some movement from the waves in the bracketed exposures so I needed the 0.9 grad to force a longer exposure.

I did get some spray picked up by the sun on the grad but I was able to clone that out later on. Thank goodness :)

This was taken on a Canon EOS 40D with a 17-85mm EFS lens and a Hitec 0.9 hard grad.

HDR was from three exposures [-2,0,+2]. Processed in DPHDR.

Oh yeah and of course it's a pano too from three shots, stitched in PTGui.

Getting out to the rocks was interesting, I thought they were really sharp and jagged looking, certainly not a place one would want to fall over. It was pitch black when I arrived at about 4am and even then a fisherman beat me too it.

Definitely a spot I'll be returning too again.

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Natural Bridge

Natural Bridge, originally uploaded by greenplasticdave.

This is the amazing Natural Bridge/Arch in the Gold Coast Hinterland of Australia. It's normally really hard to expose properly but I was lucky this time. The sun was in just the right spot to get some light reflecting nicely on the roof of the cave.

Two shot HDR panorama [-2,0,+2] stitched in PTGui. HDR in DPHDR.

Taken on a Canon EOS 40D with a 17-85mm EFS lens.

Fingal Head

Just back from a nice if somewhat sleep deprived weekend on the Gold Coast.

This shot was taken at sunrise on Saturday (17th) morning after getting up at 3:30am, driving for 40 minutes then trekking through the bush in the dark (with torch) to get there it was an enjoyable jaunt even if just to watch the fishermen scrambling over the rocks :P

This is a three shot panorama taken with the camera in landscape orientation and using a 0.9 Hard grad to bring the sky down.

I had the luxury of being able to wait for nice looking waves, capturing them at each pano position and then stitching ones I liked later on. This enabled me to make a pano with nice waves entering AND leaving the little channel. The chaotic pattern of the water makes any stitching errors invisible :P

Taken on a Canon EOS 40D with a 17-85mm lens.

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Shorncliffe sunset

I saw this nice little pond on the way home from sunrise and thought it'd make a good sunset spot. I trekked out again on Sunday to get some shots and came away with this.

HDR pano from three exposures [-2,0,+2] combined in PTGui and Dynamic Photo HDR.

Taken on a Canon EOS 40D and 17-85mm EFS lens.


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Wallangarra

Still going with the processing of last weekend's images.

Just behind this building which I think was a post office is apparently Queensland's first pub.

HDR from three exposures [-2,0,+2] combined in Dynamic Photo HDR.

Taken on a Canon EOS 40D.

Wallangarra station, NSW/QLD

HDR panorama taken on the NSW/QLD border at the old Wallangarra Station.

Three exposures [-2,0,+2] taken on a Canon EOS 40D.

I got so many shots over this camping weekend that I filled up all my memory cards (13GB total) and had to dump some images on my laptop to be able to keep shooting. It was a great holiday with some great shooting opportunities.

This sunrise shoot started out quite differently with not a cloud in the sky. I was beneath the verandah shooting a 360 pano when I saw some clouds forming and raced back out to shoot this one :)

Girraween Star Trails

Got up at 2:30am for this one. I wanted to wait till the moon was out of the way :)

This is 64, 30-second exposures f/5.6 ISO-500 stacked in Photoshop.

I took 105 images in total but some clouds rolled in spoiling it a little. That particular image (with 105 shots) turned out ok but there was a big cloudy smudge obscuring some stars. In the end I preferred this one :)

Taken on a Canon EOS 40D with a 17-85mm EFS lens. Foreground lit by a 430 EXII fired manually to the left and right.

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S.S. Dicky

Taken during the Brisbane Flickr meetup at Dicky Beach, Caloundra.

Taken on a Canon EOS 40D and 17-85mm lens.

A number of things were difficult about this shoot. 

1 - Focusing in the dark
2 - Resorting to a large aperture
3 - Using a higher ISO than usual
4 - Sea spray in the air

It's all a learning process though :)

This was one of the last shots I took after playing around with a flash to camera left. 

I started the exposure then ran off to the side and fired the flash. For this shot I held a pink lens cloth in front of the flash to give a red-ish colouring :)

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Brisbane Dust Storm

The dust storm that rolled in yesterday. I saw the orange light coming through the windows of the house so I dashed off to Mt Coot Tha to see what was what and well THIS is what was what. 

Ripples in the sand

I had spent a while taking this shot and hadn't noticed the clouds forming in the east. I clambered over the old pier and it felt like climbing a huge mountain to be greeted by a grand view from the top. Seeing this as I crested the summit was like receiving a little gift from God :)

Taken with a Canon EOS 40D and 17-85mm EFS lens. HDR stitched panorma of 12 shots three exposures each. Stitched in PTGui to output three exposure planes [-2,0,+2] HDR was carried out in Dynamic photo HDR.

I've been looking at Ken Duncan's panographs and how he uses sand ripples as a foreground feature. I particularly like in this shot that the sand ripples curve around to 'mirror' the fanning out of the clouds

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Shorncliffe sunrise

HDR [-2,0,+2] Taken on a Canon EOS 40D and 17-85mm EFS lens.

The tide was the furthest out I've ever seen it at Shorncliffe this morning and with my wellies (gum boots) on I was able to wade out to this spot. The tide was coming in though and I did manage to get some water inside one boot though, oh well :) As Billy would say "If it wisnae fae yer wellies where wid ye be?"


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Point Halloran

HDR panorama [-2,0,+2] taken this morning at Point Halloran. Bit disappointing with nary a cloud to be seen though there was a thick fog hanging over the horizon defining the sun as a nice disc when it rose.

Taken with a Canon EOS 40D and 17-85mm EFS lens. Stitched using PTGui. HDR in Dynamic Photo HDR.


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This is a 360 panorama taken using a Panosaurus on a Canon EOS 40D with the 50mm f/1.8 lens. Yes that's right I used the 50mm lens instead of the 17-85mm. Those of you in the know will understand the smaller field of view this gives and therefore how long it would take to do a full 360 degrees in just one plane never mind tilting up and down and doing a further 360.

I stood in the cathedral for two hours doing this, went for lunch, came back and set up in the exact same spot and took the rest of the pics for another hour and a half.

I wanted to see how it looked with the 50mm lens as it's such a nice sharp little thing :) I'm not just a glutton for punishment :P

Processing this thing took FOUR DAYS in Hugin. It's an HDR panorama as you can probably tell, I love the tones in stone with HDR. Hugin balked when I threw all of the exposures at it so I put them through Photomatix first and then went back to Hugin having divided the image count I was giving it by three. It chugged away happily for the next few days and presented me with this fine image :)

The original image is over 133 Megapixels in size :P Yum!

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Taken on my recent sunrise shoot at Nudgee Beach. This is a three shot panorama taken with the camera oriented vertically. Each of the three stitched shots was comprised of three exposures combined for HDR in "Dynamic Photo HDR".

Taken with a Canon EOS 40D and 17-85mm EFS lens.

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Riverfire 2009

Myself and several other photographers from the Brisbane Flickr group met up at 7am yesterday morning to secure a prime location to photograph the Riverfire festival. All had a great time and got some spectacular shots.

A 5 row panorama taken on a Canon EOS 40D and 17-85mm lens.

Nudgee Beach Dawn

A visit to Nudgee Beach at the weekend delivered a stunning sunrise. This is an HDR panorama taken on a Canon EOS 40D with a 17-85mm lens. Three exposures [-2,0,+2] shot in portrait orientation then stitched together in PTGui. 

Beach shop

Old Beach shop at Wynnum, Queensland. This was a three shot HDR converted to B&W in Photoshop. I really love the textures that HDR brings out in old building materials.

Point Halloran

No HDR on this one. 5 shots stiched together in PTGui. 

Shorncliffe Pier. Brisbane, Australia

I took a trip out to one of my favourite sunrise locations a few days ago. This shot was stitched together in PTGui from two landscape oriented shots. HDR from three exposures [-2, 0, +2] generated in Photomatix Pro. 

The Wedding of Anthony and Stacey

I completed my first wedding panorama on the weekend. If you would like this kind of photo done at your wedding just ask when you contact us.