Low light lens

These are the first pics taken with the 35mm low light lens. Taken overlooking the Yarra in Melbourne. So far I am very happy with this lens, it is my only lens that doesn't zoom but it produces a very sharp photograph and photographs as "the eye sees", and can see already this one will be getting the most use.

Toni Childs

Well this was a great opportunity to try some concert photography. ISO needs to be increased dramatically to combat shooting in low light along with the constant light changes of the show, however I was very happy with these photographs that I managed to shoot. The show itself was very entertaining and a great night, Toni has a beautiful strong voice and she sounds just as good live as her cd versions.

Light Trails Photography

This photograph was taken of the Eastlink tunnels on Eastlink at Ringwood. I have seen articles about light trail photography in magazines but did not realise how easily it could be done if you follow a few simple rules. I love the colour of the sky and the streeetlights that turned out to look like stars and of course the light trails on the road from the cars. The effect of continual light from the traffic is produced by leaving the shutter of the camera open for a longer period of time to allow more light onto the sensor.

The most important factor to lowlight photography like this is:

Take your photographs within half hour of the sun going down and not waiting until the sky is pitch black.

Use a tripod as there can be absolutely no camera shake for long shutter speed times. I also use a remote for the shutter so that I am not touching the camera at all to avoid movement when releasing the shutter.

Taking a few shots with different exposure times to create the image that I liked.

Settings I used for this shot were:

f/22

shutter: bulb (I left the shutter open for 2 minutes)

iso: 100

Great Ocean Road

Yesterday being my last day off before heading back to work today, and another beautiful day so we decided to head up the Great Ocean Road to the "Twelve Apostles". I had not been there for 25 years and Brendan had not been there before, it was just as beautiful as I had remembered and as you can see I got some great photographs. Next time we are going to make a weekend of it as I would love to get some pics at sunset! I used 50-200mm zoom lens for all of these pics, using autofocus with the camera on manual settings.

Another nice day, so another photo outing

This time we decided to head for St. Kilda and some of the bayside suburbs. Here are the pics from today's outings, just loving the colours this camera is producing, and today I used mostly the 200mm lens.

Christmas day

Here are a couple of pics from christmas day playing around with the camera

Photography outing

Beautiful sunny day today on Boxing day, so we decided to head off to the Dandenongs for some photography. We went to skyhigh overlooking the dandenongs and took some photo's there amongst the gardens, then onto Emerald for some pics of the Puffing Billy steam train and then stopped off at Cardinia Reservoir on the way home. Really happy with some of the pics, but there were plenty also that were either too light or too dark, so I will have to sit down and read the photography book on exposure that Cynthia gave me for christmas!