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I was up with the Radio & Electronics Association of Southern Tasmania tonight, and decided to play with some long exposure photography for star trails while up there.
What you see in this image is a view looking over Hobart CBD and in the foreground is a 2.2 metre satellite receiver used by the club to receive television broadcasts that are typically unavailable to most people.
It’s not a fantastic star trail image as the ambient light from the city greatly reduces the contrast of the night sky, so I probably need to arrange an outing to Mt Pleasant Observatory to have try this in more favourable conditions.
This particular exposure was a little over 30 mins. No noise reduction was done on the camera and I have made some minor retouches to deal with the hot spots on the sensor.
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Taken: June 23, 2010, 8:26 pm.
Focal Length: 15mm
Shutter: 1922 Seconds
Aperture: ƒ/16
Tags: Domain, Hobart, Long Exposure, Night, Star Trails
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This past long weekend I had the pleasure of going out with some friends to Mt Field National Park for the day. Was was also an excellent opportunity to meet Amy, a fellow photographer who does extraordinary things with her mobile phone.
This is quickly becoming a regular destination for me given that it is not all that far away to drive and theres a lot of interesting scenery along the way. The trip took me around my usual circuit – National Park via New Norfolk in the morning, and then home via Lake Meadowbank in the evening.
Unfortunately I haven’t had a lot of time to play with my camera of late, and it does show in my photos. Many of them suffered compositional mistakes, issues with white balance and colour and focus. I’m surprised any photos came out at all.
One such example is the photo above – compositional error. Really should not have had the car on the bridge and what particularly annoyed me was that I did not reshoot the photo. I have no idea why I forgot.
There was only one image I took that day I was truly happy with – but I will leave that to Amy to show you.
Thanks to Anders, Tori, Tom, Caitlin, James, Leesha, Carly and of course Amy for the day.
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Taken: June 14, 2010, 4:05 pm.
Focal Length: 50mm
Shutter: 1/59.999999999999
Aperture: ƒ/8
Tags: Bridge, Causeway, Lake Meadowbank, Reflections, Water
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Lindisfarne Bay is a suburban bay just north-east of Hobart and about 5 minutes from where I live. I had been meaning for some time to spend an evening attempting to get some photos of the run-down boat jetties found around the bay, but at this time of the year the light is coming from the wrong angle.
Here’s a photo of one of the jetties that appeared to come out ok.
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Taken: May 29, 2010, 3:30 pm.
Focal Length: 125mm
Shutter: 1/250
Aperture: ƒ/8
Tags: Jetty, Lindisfarne
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This photo was taken on my first trip out with my DSLR. In my first trip to the Tasmanian West Coast in over 15 years, the main purpose of the journey was to experience the wonderful Wilderness Railway, better known as the Abt. Built in the 1890s by the Mt Lyell Mining Company, the railway connected Strahan and Queenstown for a number of years, before being closed in the mid 1960s and rails ripped up. In the late 1990s money was granted to re-establish the railway as a tourist venture.
In the photo here we see Abt Locomotive #1 taking on water at Rinadeena – the highest point of the journey and the lunchtime stopover. This is a tremendous journey and I would recommend it to anyone who happens to have a spare day when visiting the Tasmanian West Coast.
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Taken: May 20, 2008, 1:05 pm.
Focal Length: 55mm
Shutter: 1/59.999999999999
Aperture: ƒ/5.6
Tags: Abt Railway, Queenstown, Strahan, Tasmania, West Coast
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Over the last couple of months I have not had much time to get out and take photos. In fact, I haven’t taken any photos since Bathurst Harbour, which is kind of depressing. Whats worse is that with my current schedule, I will not be able to get out into the wilds to take any more photos for at least another 3 weeks due to current workloads 
I have missed much of the magnificent autumn colour changes that occur each year, but did manage to briefly have a play with my 50mm lens and close up filters in the garden. I find this a nice image so far as colour and texture goes.
Thats all for now! unless I find something from the vault 
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Taken: May 2, 2010, 9:47 am.
Focal Length: 50mm
Shutter: 1/200
Aperture: ƒ/3.2
Tags: Autumn, Close-up, Wisteria
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Bathurst Harbour is one of the last truly wild places in Tasmania, with very little human occupation since Tasmania was colonised. I recently had the pleasure I enjoying a day trip to the harbour with Par Avion tours, which took in many of Tasmania’s rugged peaks and bays, before landing at Melaleuca, before a boat took us along Melaleuca Creek & Inlet, visiting Clayton’s Landing before passing under Mt Rugby & through the Narrows to Bramble Cove for lunch. Return & fly back. Full details can be found at the Air Tasmania Website.
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Tags: Bathurst Harbour, Clayton's Landing, Mt Rugby, South West Tasmania
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