June, 2010

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Long Distance Call

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

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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.

Meadowbank

Saturday, June 19th, 2010

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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.

Lindisfarne

Friday, June 11th, 2010

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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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