Fingal Heads Sunrise
Not much of a Sunrise
A long busy week saw me crash out hard around 8pm. I had not planned to go out as the forecast was rain and more rain, but “early to bed early to rise”. Wide awake at 4am I decided why not. I opted for somewhere out by the bay so I could catch up with my poppa once done. I decided on Wellington Point as I am still eager to capture a great shot from this area.
As per the weather forecast it was raining, quiet heavily. If I was going to stand any chance I needed an umbrella (ella ella). I made a pit stop at a petrol station, to my surprise they actually sold them. By the time I got there the rain was only intermittent, and it certainly wasn’t going to be anything spectacular…
It was very windy, I tried my luck with my new Vari-ND to have the clouds and waves streaking off to the corners of the photo. Err that didn’t work, a little too ambitious I think seeing as this is the first time I have used it. (OH! btw I ordered some new filters from Singh-ray they were a Vari-ND, Gold-n-Blue Polariser and 4stop Reverse Neutral Density filters. I never got a chance to blog about that.)
Now the Gold-N-Blue polariser this was fun…
Test Shot - Gold Jetty
Test Shot - Blue Jetty
Pretty cool filter, should be great camping next weekend. And now some creative expression 
I will be posting some more info about these filters in the coming weeks.
On the way back I stopped off at Poppas. I couldn’t resist grabbing the camera and photographing some of the rain drops around in the garden. This first one is great you can see the reflection of a flower.
The Rainbow Lorikeets were enjoying them selves in the rain.
And I have left the best one for last.. High quality close up.
Brisbane CBD Sunset
Was an interesting sunset this evening, I originally went out to grab an early dinner, but to my suprise there was a storm on the way. I went to kangaroo point (yeah same old place I know)
This photo isn’t a HDR, and it really was like this, the sun was setting on the other side of this rain/myst.
After waiting for the rain to pass I walked down to an overpass on main st. I have been wanting to take some photos from this location for a while. The lightning was great from here, however I failed to capture it successfully. This is the best shot I got…
Archives
I have been trawling through the archives for photos I may have missed…
Fingal Heads
Went back into my archive of photos and revisited the Fingal Heads Sunrise, back in December 2007.
Looking Back
Storm
My first attempt at lightning photography.
In post production editing I was extremely dissapointed with the amount of noise all the photos had in the darkness. I have done my best to remove it in this round of edits (I’ll have another go later). Given that I was only on ISO 200 I consider this to be a major weakness of the 5D…
Mooloolaba
Went to Mooloolaba this morning, was fun.
Cleveland Point Sunrise
I have been wanting to get back out to Cleveland Point now for a while, only I havn’t been able to schedule it around a low tide until today.
A retreating tide a few minutes before sunrise. The cloud lowest to the horizon was great blocking alot of light from the sun. I used my 3 Stop reverse ND filter for this.
Brisbane City v2
At 5:20pm this afternoon I decided the cloud cover could be developing into something spectacular, lots of fast low flying clouds as well as some very high ones. So I headed off from work, I did try and find a new location to take photos from but didn’t have much luck. End up back at Kangaroo Point. I walked around and ended up at the same location as earlier in the week, but decided against that. I went down to the base of the cliffs and down onto a rock ledge by the river for a lower prespective. I did try and get the citycats and ferries in shot on the river but the long stutter speed made them blurry.
By the time sunset and twilight rolled around, most of the low flying clouds had all but disappeared over the horizon.
I struggled with over exposure from the direct sunlight on the left, I really needed a 4 or 5 stop ND. I think there was about a 1 1/2 stop difference in light from left to right.
I’m enjoying these sunsets, I think I might be over sunrises for a bit. Haha