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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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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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My camera has just had it’s sensor cleaned. I was eager to get out and start taking photos again and so last night went to the rocks around Wentworth Street, where a rocky headland separates Bellerive Beach from Howrah Beach. The clouds had closed in and it had become rather overcast which did not fit with my plans for golden sunsets and glowing rocks. However the wind was still making the harbour choppy which brought about some reasonable waterscapes. which feel dark and moody.
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Taken: February 19, 2010, 6:25 pm.
Focal Length: 10mm
Shutter: 0.8 Seconds
Aperture: ƒ/22
Tags: Bellerive, Howrah, Waterscape
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I can’t wait to try my first passionfruits from my vine, once they mature. Shouldn’t be long now. But the passionfruit it not only great to eat, but great to photograph as well, mainly due to their magnificent flowers. Inspired by one of the photos I saw at the HPS Exhibition, I acquired some step-up rings to allow me to fit the 58mm close-up filters to my 52mm dia, 50mm F1.8 lens. That a bee happened across the flower at the time was just a bonus. I am pretty happy with this picture.
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Taken: February 9, 2010, 4:43 pm.
Focal Length: 50mm
Shutter: 1/160
Aperture: ƒ/5.6
Tags: 50mm, Garden, Macro, Passionfruit
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The Tasman Bridge will always be a prominent landmark in Hobart, so it’s no surprise that I take more than one photo of it. A couple of evenings ago saw a nice, sparse cloud formation ideal for longer exposure images, so I jumped in my car for an impromptu play with my favourite toy, my B+W110 filter.
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Taken: February 6, 2010, 7:27 pm.
Focal Length: 17mm
Shutter: 486 Seconds
Aperture: ƒ/16
Tags: B+W110, Hobart, Long Exposure, Tasman Bridge
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