Had a bit of fun trying out my new 10 stop B&W ND filter on the weekend and came away with this shot. I’m not sure about this filter as I found it throws a definite colour cast over all the shots I took which can be a bit of a pain. Anyway I like the softness in water in this photo as it is certainly not as smooth as this in real life at this spot.
Yeah I Know another black & white … This is another one I have had sitting around for a while and thought a bit of Nik Silver Efex might improve the overall look of and even though I love the original colour version I reckon this looks the goods as well. Nice simple subjects and composition are the go for this type of processing I think.
Well this last Sunday was spent having a picnic birthday party for one of my daughters at the perth zoo. It was a warm but very enjoyable day. I took a few shots in the afternoon and with the high contrast in the light decided Black & Whites would be the way to go again. Good old Nik Silver Efex came to rescue once again with a bit of photoshop to put on some final touches and complete the picture. I am fairly pleased with the result compared to the original Raw capture.
I am still trying different things with the new Nik software suite and this shot I took in India last year seemed to suit the silver efex pro treatment I thought. A group of us from Oz spent three weeks riding Royal Enfield Bullet motor bikes from Delhi up to Ley in the himalayas of India (around 2000 km there and back ). The landscapes up that way are mind blowing and the mountain roads are a bit scary as this shot shows.
This is a photo I snapped a few years ago and after the unfortunate deaths of the endangered Carnaby’s cockatoo’s down Hopetoun way this week I thought I would dig it up and try and find out once and for all if anyone in blog land might be able to tell me if they of the Carnaby variety or not as I have never been 100% sure. the shot was taken just out of Toodyay in about 2005.
This would have to be one of the most peaceful and pleasant places to be if you like an early morning dip on a calm summers day. At around 5.30am there were already quite a few swimmers making the most of the conditions.
Another shot from the Denmark area, This time out at ocean beach. We camped at the ocean beach caravan park which is a top place but I have never seen so many kids in one park before. Bikes, skate boards, balls, cricket on the road, it had it all.
I’m back ! from down south that is. This is one of many shots taken on our annual down south pilgrimage this year. I was experimenting this evening with high ISO settings and different angles of view etc in this shot as the light was pretty ordinary. The camera was about 100mm off the sand on my trusty Manfrotto tripod which had to be quickly removed as soon the shutter closed to avoid getting washed away in the surf. The things we do for a bit of fun !!!! I like the overall wide angle effect and the colours not to bad either I thought.
This image is a Photomatix HDR version of the truck in the previous post, I’m not to sure about this one and I think I prefer the original. Good fun trying it out though, something a bit different.
Well, inspired by Merv Frenches Harvesting photos on his blog I thought I would post a few of my own that I took for a farmer out at Bolgart this last week.He told me that even though the crops all looked good they were not yielding as well as they had hoped. It is a great atmosphere out in the paddocks on a warm summers evening as the sun is sinking.
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