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.